We studied food and water-borne diseases (FWDs), sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), vector-borne diseases (VBDs) and diseases vaccinated against in the Swedish childhood vaccination programme among Swedish international travellers, in order to identify countries associated with a high number of...
Author(s)
Dahl, V.; Wallensten, A.
Publisher
Public Library of Sciences (PLoS), San Francisco, USA
Citation
PLoS ONE, 2017, 12, 7, pp e0181625
Background: Europeans represent the majority of international travellers and clinicians encountering returned patients have an essential role in recognizing, and communicating travel-associated public health risks. Methods: To investigate the morbidity of travel associated infectious diseases in...
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Field, V.; Gautret, P.; Schlagenhauf, P.; Burchard, G. D.; Caumes, E.; Jensenius, M.; Castelli, F.; Gkrania-Klotsas, E.; Weld, L.; Lopez-Velez, R.; Vries, P. de; Sonnenburg, F. von; Loutan, L.; Parola, P.
Publisher
BioMed Central Ltd, London, UK
Citation
BMC Infectious Diseases, 2010, 10, 330, pp (17 November 2010)
A wide range of viral, bacterial, and protozoal diseases pose risk to long-term tropical travelers. Risk varies geographically and with lifestyle. For some infections, risk increases with duration of stay, coming to resemble that of the local population. Risk management strategies include ...
Author(s)
Toovey, S.; Moerman, F.; Gompel, A. van
Publisher
Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, UK
Citation
Journal of Travel Medicine, 2007, 14, 1, pp 50-60
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...
Publisher
BioMed Central Ltd, London, UK
Citation
Current Infectious Disease Reports, 1999, 1, 5, pp 417-426
This article reviews information on health risks associated with travel to Lebanon. Infections transmitted through the faecal-oral route, including infectious diarrhoea (shigellosis, salmonellosis, campylobacteriosis and Escherichia coli infection), hepatitis A, typhoid fever, parasitic infections...
Author(s)
Musharrafieh, U. M.; Bizri, A. R.; El-Hajj, I.
Publisher
B. C. Decker Inc., Hamilton, Canada
Citation
Journal of Travel Medicine, 2003, 10, 5, pp 280-285
Author(s)
Suankratay, C.; Wilde, H.; Berger, S.
Publisher
B. C. Decker Inc., Hamilton, Canada
Citation
Journal of Travel Medicine, 2001, 8, 4, pp 192-203
Background: International travel is a risk factor for incident colonization with extended spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-producing organisms. These and other multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacteria are major pathogens in combat casualties. We evaluated risk factors for colonization with MDR bacteria in...
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Buchek, G.; Mende, K.; Telu, K.; Kaiser, S.; Fraser, J.; Mitra, I.; Stam, J.; Lalani, T.; Tribble, D.; Yun, H. C.
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Cary, USA
Citation
Journal of Travel Medicine, 2021, 28, 3,
Background: The Grand Magal of Touba is the largest Muslim pilgrimage in Senegal with a potential for infectious disease transmission. Methods: Clinical follow-up, adherence to preventive measures and qPCR-based respiratory and gastrointestinal pathogens carriage pre- and post-Magal, were assessed. ...
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Van-Thuan Hoang; Goumballa, N.; Thi-Loi Dao; Tran Duc Anh Ly; Ninove, L.; Ranque, S.; Raoult, D.; Parola, P.; Sokhna, C.; Santi, V. P. de; Gautret, P.
Publisher
Elsevier Ltd, Oxford, UK
Citation
Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2019, 32, pp 101410
Author(s)
Ryan, E. T.; Wilson, M. E.; Kain, K. C.
Publisher
Massachusetts Medical Society, Waltham, USA
Citation
New England Journal of Medicine, 2002, 347, 7, pp 505-516
This surveillance report describes the trends in international travel from the UK and Scotland to Europe, North America, Asia, Africa, Central and South America, and the Caribbean, and the travel-related infections during 2011-12. Data on imported infections, including Shigella dysentery, protozoal ...
Author(s)
Redman, C.; Genasi, F.; Smith, K.; Brownlie, S.; Locking, M.
Publisher
Health Protection Scotland, Glasgow, UK
Citation
HPS Weekly Report, 2013, 47, 3, pp 30-34