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...
Author(s)
Lawrence, J.; Jones, J.
Publisher
Health Protection Agency, London, UK
Citation
Foreign travel associated illness, England, Wales and Northern Ireland: 2007 report , 2007, pp 101 pp.
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 ...
Author(s)
Steffen, R.; DuPont, H. L.
Publisher
B.C. Decker Inc, Hamilton, Canada
Citation
Manual of travel medicine and health, 1999, pp xi + 515 pp.
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
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...
Author(s)
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.
Publisher
National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, USA
Citation
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2013, 19, 7, pp 1049-1057
Background. Older individuals represent a substantial proportion of international travelers. Because of physiological changes and the increased probability of underlying medical conditions, older travelers might be at higher risk for at least some travel-associated diseases. Methods. With the aim...
Author(s)
Gautret, P.; Gaudart, J.; Leder, K.; Schwartz, E.; Castelli, F.; Lim PohLian; Murphy, H.; Keystone, J.; Cramer, J.; Shaw, M.; Boddaert, J.; Sonnenburg, F. von; Parola, P.
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell, Boston, USA
Citation
Journal of Travel Medicine, 2012, 19, 3, pp 169-177
This Health Protection Scotland report summarizes the incidence of laboratory-confirmed travel-related infections in Scotland, UK during 2014. It includes data on the following pathogens: gastrointestinal protozoa (namely Giardia spp., Cryptosporidium spp., and Entamoeba histolytica), Salmonella...
Author(s)
Munro, J.; Redman, C.; Genasi, F.; Brownlie, S.
Publisher
Health Protection Scotland, Glasgow, UK
Citation
HPS Weekly Report, 2015, 49, 4, pp 44-53
Every year, millions of people travel abroad, exposing themselves to various diseases. Advice on risk avoidance and on self-medication is not always successful; sometimes travellers return home ill or become unwell soon afterwards. There are many possible causes for such illnesses, and physicians...
Publisher
Lancet Limited, London, UK
Citation
Lancet (British edition), 2003, 361, 9367, pp 1459-1469
This document is a summary of studies that dealt with aspects of malaria, hepatitis A, and other travel related diseases (dengue fever, rickettsial infections, influenza, and leptospirosis) in Swedish travellers. It aims to describe the epidemiology of imported infectious diseases in Sweden and...
Publisher
Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Citation
Infectious diseases in returning Swedish travellers, 2009, pp 51 pp.
This 2-volume text offers a broad overview of infectious diseases in a well-written, user-friendly fashion, covering pathogenesis, epidemiology, clinical manifestations, treatment and prevention. It includes 330 chapters organized into 4 parts. The first volume includes Parts I and II, while the...
Author(s)
Mandell, G.; Dolin, R.; Bennett, J.
Publisher
Elsevier, Cambridge, UK
Citation
Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett's principles and practice of infectious diseases, 2009, Ed. 7, pp 4328 pp.
Background: Diagnosis of undifferentiated non-malaria fevers (NMF) in returning travellers is a great challenge. Currently, there is no consensus about the use of empirical antibiotics in returning travellers with undifferentiated NMF. Although studies in endemic areas showed that a wide range of...
Author(s)
Camprubí-Ferrer, D.; Oteo, J. A.; Bottieau, E.; Genton, B.; Balerdi-Sarasola, L.; Portillo, A.; Cobuccio, L.; Broucke, S. van den; Santibáñez, S.; Cadar, D.; Rodriguez-Valero, N.; Almuedo-Riera, A.; Subirà, C.; D'Acremont, V.; Martinez, M. J.; Roldán, M.; Navero-Castillejos, J.; Esbroeck, M. van; Muñoz, J.
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Cary, USA
Citation
Journal of Travel Medicine, 2022, 30, 1,