Background: Travellers are generally considered good sentinels for infectious disease surveillance. AimTo investigate whether health data from travellers arriving from Africa to Europe could provide evidence to support surveillance systems in Africa. Methods: We examined disease occurrence and...
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Gossner, C. M.; Hallmaier-Wacker, L.; Briet, O.; Haussig, J. M.; Valk, H. de; Wijermans, A.; Bakonyi, T.; Madubuko, T.; Frank, C.; Noel, H.; Abdulaziz, M.
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European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Stockholm, Sweden
Citation
Eurosurveillance, 2023, 28, 7,
Objective: To analyse the spectrum, vaccination needs and pretravel advice complexity of travellers presenting at a travel medicine clinic in Santiago, Chile. Design: Cross-sectional study. Setting: Pretravel consultations in a private healthcare centre in Chile, an 'emerging market' country in...
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BMJ Publishing Group, London, UK
Citation
BMJ Open, 2020, 10, 9,
The purpose of this prospective, questionnaire-based study is to assess pre-travel vaccinations and malaria prophylaxis for long-term travellers who receive pre-travel advice in Greece. A total of 4721 travellers were studied from January 1, 2009 through December 31, 2012. Travellers sought...
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Pavli, A.; Smeti, P.; Spilioti, A.; Silvestros, C.; Katerelos, P.; Maltezou, H. C.
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Elsevier Ltd, Oxford, UK
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Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2014, 12, 6, Part B, pp 764-770
Introduction: Even though Istanbul is one of the centers of the world's fastest-growing tourism and travel sector, there are limited statistics on the knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) of travelers from this region regarding travel-related infectious diseases. This study aimed to determine...
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Kahraman, M.; Yuksel, I.; Boz, E. B.; Ozbek, H. E.; Mert, E.; Reyhanli, A.; Sari, A.; Canturk, E. M.; Can, E.; Demirkol, A.; Toraman, M. S.; Yildirim, N.; Oren, M. M.; Polat, S. H. B.; Kan, O.; Ayazoglu, C.; Aydogan, F. K.; Ozturk, S.; Karan, M. A.
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International Travel Medicine Center of Iran, Tehran, Iran
Citation
International Journal of Travel Medicine and Global Health, 2021, 9, 4, pp 161-169
Selection of immunizations should be based on requirements and on risk of infection. According to the International Health Regulations, many countries require yellow fever vaccination and proof thereof as the International Certificate of vaccination. Additionally selected countries require proof of ...
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Steffen, R.; Baños, A.; Bernardis, C. de
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Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, Netherlands
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International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents, 2003, 21, 2, pp 175-180
Social media is increasingly recognised as an important source of information about a wide range of issues, including nature-based tourism. We assess the current state of the academic literature to highlight what sources of data and methods are used, where and to assess which issues and what are...
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Mota, V. T. da; Pickering, C.
Publisher
Elsevier, Oxford, UK
Citation
Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism, 2020, 30,
Longitudinal data examining travel-associated illness patterns are lacking. To address this need and determine trends and clusters in travel-related illness, we examined data for 2000-2010, prospectively collected for 42,223 ill travelers by 18 GeoSentinel sites. The most common destinations from...
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Leder, K.; Torresi, J.; Brownstein, J. S.; Wilson, M. E.; Keystone, J. S.; Barnett, E.; Schwartz, E.; Schlagenhauf, P.; Wilder-Smith, A.; Castelli, F.; Sonnenburg, F. von; Freedman, D. O.; Cheng, A. C.
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National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, USA
Citation
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2013, 19, 7, pp 1049-1057
Africa's varied ecology presents a wide range of travel health threats: infections; accidents; envenomations; an uncertain drug supply; problematic access to competent medical care outside South Africa. Important vaccine preventable diseases include yellow fever, meningococcal disease, typhoid,...
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Elsevier, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Citation
Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2006, 4, 3/4, pp 147-158
Purpose of Review: The worldwide spread of chikungunya over the past two decades calls for greater knowledge and awareness of the virus, its route of transmission, methods of diagnosis, and the use of available treatment and prevention measures. Recent Findings: Chikungunya virus infection, an ...
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Mourad, O.; Makhani, L.; Chen, L. H.
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Springer, New York, USA
Citation
Current Infectious Disease Reports, 2022, 24, 12, pp 217-228
Background: Apart from outbreak reports, little is known about the endemicity of dengue and chikungunya virus in African countries. We investigated serum samples collected in Gabon before major outbreaks in 2007 and 2010 in order to identify pre-outbreak-circulation of both viruses. Methods: Serum...
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Gabor, J. J.; Schwarz, N. G.; Esen, M.; Kremsner, P. G.; Grobusch, M. P.
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Elsevier Ltd, Oxford, UK
Citation
Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2016, 14, 1, pp 26-31