The African eye worm: a case report and review.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Health-care professionals can help travelers by providing accurate pre-travel counseling for mosquito-transmitted diseases such as malaria, yellow fever, and dengue fever. Governments and international organizations will benefit from knowledge survey among health professionals in this field to promote the de...

journal_title：Journal of travel medicine

authors： Huang HL,Chiu TY,Huang KC,Cheng SY,Yao CA,Lee LT

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:International travel has become popular among young adults. This study evaluated the rate and characteristics of travel-associated health risks among young adults with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) compared with healthy same-aged individuals. METHODS:A retrospective study was conducted of 47 young adults with T1...

journal_title：Journal of travel medicine

authors： Levy-Shraga Y,Hamiel U,Yaron M,Pinhas-Hamiel O

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca, is one of the obligatory religious duties of Islam. The travel clinic of the Public Health Service (PHS) Amsterdam administers vaccinations, including the required meningitis ACYW135 vaccine, and provides travelers with individual recommendations for all their travels. METHODS...

journal_title：Journal of travel medicine

authors： Keles H,Sonder GJ,van den Hoek A

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Brucellosis is an endemic disease in Latin America and other countries. Serologic cross-reaction between cholera and Brucella infection is well recognized. Since the introduction to cholera in 1991 in Latin America, interpreting serologic tests has become potentially problematic. This study attempts to eva...

journal_title：Journal of travel medicine

authors： Goicochea CE,Gotuzzo E,Carrillo C

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This investigation was designed to identify individual and contextual factors associated with airline passengers' alcohol use, and to explore potentially dangerous in-flight alcohol consumption. METHODS:Passengers waiting to board 24 domestic flights at an international airport in the South Atlantic United ...

journal_title：Journal of travel medicine

authors： Girasek DC,Olsen CH

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Little is known about the awareness of travellers with diabetes about the health effects of international travel. This study aimed to design and validate a questionnaire to examine the travel health knowledge, attitudes and practices of people living with type 1 diabetes. METHODS:A set of 74 items based on ...

journal_title：Journal of travel medicine

authors： Flaherty GT,Leong SW,Finn Y,Sulaiman LH,Noone C

更新日期：2020-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Retrospective studies have shown that the first HIV positive patient in the Federal Republic (FR) of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) was detected among intravenous drug users (IDUs) in 1981. The first two cases of AIDS in Yugoslavia were registered in 19851; one of them was infected in subSaharan Africa. The object...

journal_title：Journal of travel medicine

authors： Vucic-Jankovic ML,Ristic SJ,Bakovic TR

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Thirteen clustered cases of American histoplasmosis, a deep mycosis caused by Histoplasma capsulatum and acquired through inhalation of airborne spores was reported. Twenty-five persons traveled in Martinique, French West Indies. Thirteen underwent trekking and passed through a mountain tunnel full of bats (...

journal_title：Journal of travel medicine

authors： Salomon J,Flament Saillour M,De Truchis P,Bougnoux ME,Dromer F,Dupont B,de Saint-Hardouin G,Perronne C

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Neurocysticercosis (NCC) is an important cause of adult-onset seizures in endemic areas, whereas it is emerging in some nonendemic areas as well because of extensive immigration. METHOD:We describe three cases of imported NCC recently admitted to San Bortolo Hospital in Vicenza, located in Northern Italy. ...

journal_title：Journal of travel medicine

authors： Giordani MT,Tamarozzi F,Cattaneo F,Brunetti E

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of a 29-year-old woman who presented to hospital with fever, right upper quadrant pain, marked eosinophilia, and liver abscesses after returning to Canada from Bali, Indonesia. Diagnostic delay and prolonged antibiotic use led to morbidity before the eventual diagnosis and treatment of fascioliasis. ...

journal_title：Journal of travel medicine

authors： Kain D,Mukkala AN,Boggild AK

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Schistosoma haematobium and Schistosoma mansoni are endemic to East Africa. US Peace Corps volunteers (PCVs) serving in Tanzania were not experiencing symptoms of infection, but in 1998 when comprehensive testing was instituted, more than one-quarter were found to be infected with schistosomiasis at the clos...

journal_title：Journal of travel medicine

authors： Outwater AH,Mpangala E

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Little is known about the health advice provided to hostelers and the role and influence of hosteling organizations' travelers' information evenings in giving travel health advice. This study was designed to investigate these in relation to the Australian context. METHODS:In 1997, hostelers attending travel...

journal_title：Journal of travel medicine

authors： Leggat PA

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dengue viruses have spread widely in recent decades and cause tens of millions of infections mostly in tropical and subtropical areas. Vaccine candidates are being studied aggressively and may be ready for licensure soon. METHODS:We surveyed patients with past or upcoming travel to dengue-endemic countries ...

journal_title：Journal of travel medicine

authors： Benoit CM,MacLeod WB,Hamer DH,Sanchez-Vegas C,Chen LH,Wilson ME,Karchmer AW,Yanni E,Hochberg NS,Ooi WW,Kogelman L,Barnett ED

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:International travel and use of modern information technology are expressions of modern life style. Seeking on-line travel health advice via E-mail for preventive (teleprevention) or diagnostic reasons may become increasingly popular among patients with financial resources and Internet access. This study was...

journal_title：Journal of travel medicine

authors： Sing A,Salzman J,Sing D

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of the study was to compare the efficacy and tolerability of seven drugs frequently used for the prevention of seasickness: the drugs were namely cinnarizine, cinnarizine with domperidone, cyclizine, dimenhydrinate with caffeine, ginger root, meclozine with caffeine, and scopolamine. The design was a ran...

journal_title：Journal of travel medicine

authors： Schmid R,Schick T,Steffen R,Tschopp A,Wilk T

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: In recent years, several hepatitis A vaccines have been developed. We wished to evaluate the safety, reactogenicity, and immunogenicity of an inactivated hepatitis A vaccine, containing 1440 EI.U., and to monitor the kinetics of the antibodies monthly for the first year after administration of a single dos...

journal_title：Journal of travel medicine

authors： Van Damme P,Thoelen S,Cramm M,Meheus A

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infections caused by Burkholderia pseudomallei are rare in nonendemic areas, such as Scandinavia. We report the first two cases of melioidosis in Norway presenting with bacteraemia and splenic and prostatic abscesses, respectively. ...

journal_title：Journal of travel medicine

authors： Hesstvedt L,Wilhelmsen M,Mengshoel AT,Dyrhol-Riise AM

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study aimed to determine the knowledge, attitudes and practices of Swiss business travelers with regard to malaria. METHODS:Questionnaires printed in three languages were distributed by employers, travel agencies and tropical medicine specialists to business travelers with destinations in malaria endem...

journal_title：Journal of travel medicine

authors： Weber R,Schlagenhauf P,Amsler L,Steffen R

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The European Travel Health Advisory Board conducted a cross-sectional pilot survey to evaluate current travel health knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) and to determine where travelers going to developing countries obtain travel health information, what information they receive, and what preventive tra...

journal_title：Journal of travel medicine

authors： Van Herck K,Van Damme P,Castelli F,Zuckerman J,Nothdurft H,Dahlgren AL,Gisler S,Steffen R,Gargalianos P,Lopéz-Vélez R,Overbosch D,Caumes E,Walker E

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Japanese encephalitis (JE) is an infection caused by a mosquito-transmitted virus present in many parts of Asia, including India, and Oceania. Infection is usually asymptomatic, leading to overt encephalitis in only 0.1-5% of infected individuals. When encephalitis occurs it is usually severe, with a 25% fatality rate...

journal_title：Journal of travel medicine

authors： Beecham III HJ,Pock AR,May LA,Tsai TF

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Drug abuse constitutes a worldwide problem. The purpose of this study was to investigate the characteristics of illicit drug use during long-term travel to the tropics, and to estimate the effects of antidrug brochures provided before travel on the use of drugs during travel. METHODS:An interventional study...

journal_title：Journal of travel medicine

authors： Paz A,Sadetzki S,Potasman I

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In February 2012, crew and passengers of a cruise ship sailing off the coast of São Paulo, Brazil, were hospitalized for acute respiratory illness (ARI). A field investigation was performed to identify the disease involved and factors associated. METHODS:Information on passengers and crew with ARI was obtai...

journal_title：Journal of travel medicine

authors： Fernandes EG,de Souza PB,de Oliveira ME,Lima GD,Pellini AC,Ribeiro MC,Sato HK,Ribeiro AF,Yu AL

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zika and Ebola viruses can persist in semen and pose a risk for sexual transmission. To determine if dengue virus, another flavivirus, is similarly detectable in semen, we performed dengue PCR on semen in five patients with acute dengue virus infection. All five tested negative, suggesting that dengue does not pose a ...

journal_title：Journal of travel medicine

authors： Molton JS,Low I,Choy MMJ,Aw PPK,Hibberd ML,Tambyah PA,Wilder-Smith A

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Aeromedical repatriation of patients is an expanding service due to the growing number of travelers worldwide. Of these repatriated patients, a small number require specialized transportation due to severe medical complications. We evaluated the medical in-flight records of Dutch patients with severe disease...

journal_title：Journal of travel medicine

authors： Greuters S,Christiaans HM,Veenings B,Loer SA,Boer C

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sexual behavior during travel has increasingly become a focus of travel medicine research. The perceived freedom when away from home can lead to increased casual sexual activities, often unprotected. Local sexual partners, particularly those who are in close contact with tourists due to their occupation, nee...

journal_title：Journal of travel medicine

authors： Cabada MM,Maldonado F,Bauer I,Verdonck K,Seas C,Gotuzzo E

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:While the worldwide endemicity of tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) has been increasing, a lack of awareness of the risks of this life-threatening disease may be leading to an underutilization of preventive measures among travellers to TBE-endemic regions. This study's objectives were to assess travellers' aware...

journal_title：Journal of travel medicine

authors： Marano C,Moodley M,Melander E,De Moerlooze L,Nothdurft HD

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Internet travel purchases accounted for 10% of the travel industry revenue generated in 2001. To ensure that travelers remain healthy during excursions to developing countries, travel health information needs to be available at commercial travel websites. We evaluated the current availability of travel healt...

journal_title：Journal of travel medicine

authors： Horvath LL,Murray CK,DuPont HL

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dr. Pfausler and colleagues report in this issue of Journal of Travel Medicine a series of patients with an interesting and potentially fatal neurovascular disorder; they raise the question, is this condition more frequent in travelers? Over a period of 18 months, Dr. Pfausler and colleagues identified five of fifteen...

journal_title：Journal of travel medicine

authors： Grotta JC

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although delusional parasitosis is frequently diagnosed by travel medicine and infectious disease specialists, factitious illness/Munchausen syndrome is extremely rare. ...

journal_title：Journal of travel medicine

authors： Gill CJ,Hamer DH

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dengue, a mosquito-transmitted viral disease, is a risk for visitors in tropical and subtropical areas. Several participants in a community-assistance program in Tortola, British Virgin Islands, in August, 1995, reported dengue-like symptoms either before or soon after leaving the island. METHODS:We conduct...

journal_title：Journal of travel medicine

authors： Lyerla R,Rigau-Pérez JG,Vorndam AV,Reiter P,George AM,Potter IM,Gubler DJ

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00