This book, inclusive of 10 chapters, offers relevant discussions on all main health risks to travellers, both during their journey and at their destinations. Important infectious diseases, including causative agents, modes of transmission, clinical features, geographical distribution, prophylaxis,...

This chapter focuses on other infectious diseases affecting travellers not mentioned in other chapters. Topics include modes of transmission and general precautions. These other infectious diseases include amoebiasis, angiostrongyliasis, avian influenza, anthrax, brucellosis, Chikungunya, dengue,...

This report provides an overview of the global epidemiology of various travel-associated infections together with a summary of the burden of travel-associated diseases in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland up to 2005. It presents data on travel trends, mortality and non-infectious morbidity in...

This manual, which is divided into 4 parts, contains information on preventive travel medicine. Infectious (anthrax, arenaviral haemorrhagic fevers, botulism, brucellosis, cholera, dengue, dermatitis, diphtheria, filariasis, filovirus infection, hantavirus, hepatitis A, B, C, delta, E, and G, human ...

Vaccination of populations throughout the world has led to dramatic decreases in morbidity and mortality from many infectious diseases, including poliomyelitis and measles. In the United States, for example, morbidity and mortality from invasive disease from Haemophilus influenzae type b has...

This issue includes the abstracts of symposia and oral presentations, poster sessions and those accepted for publication only, which cover the entire field of infection-related diseases and address issues of global challenges in the disciplines of clinical microbiology and infectious diseases. The...

Louse-borne relapsing fever (LBRF) is an epidemic disease with a fascinating history from Hippocrates' times, through the 6th century 'Yellow Plague', to epidemics in Ireland, Scotland and England in the 19th century and two large Afro-Middle Eastern pandemics in the 20th century. An endemic focus...

This chapter contains general guidelines for routine, required and recommended immunization of adult expedition participants. For each vaccine, the type, formulation, route, and schedule of administration reflect current recommendations for the USA. References for further information regarding...

Background: Latent toxoplasmosis, i.e. a lifelong infection with the protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii, affects about a third of the human population worldwide. In the past 10 years, numerous studies have shown that infected individuals have a significantly higher incidence of mental and...

For more than three decades, it has been recognized that Ixodes ricinus ticks occur in urban green space in Europe and that they harbour multiple pathogens linked to both human and animal diseases. Urban green space use for health and well-being, climate mitigation or biodiversity goals is...