Journal of Travel Medicine

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RATIONALE FOR REVIEW: Eye diseases pose a significant public health and economic burden, particularly for travellers exposed to ocular hazards who may lack access to specialist eye care. This article offers an evidence-based review for travel-health practitioners, with a particular emphasis on ocular infections and trauma that are more prevalent among travellers. Providing an overview of these issues will allow travel health practitioners to comprehensively address ophthalmic considerations of travel...

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We observed the association of vaccine coverage with the implementation of the Vaccine Pass policy and the intensity of the Omicron pandemic. Vaccine policy and transparent information dissemination are indispensable interventions promoting vaccination uptake.

RATIONALE FOR REVIEW: Enteric pathogens circulate widely in low-income countries, exposing residents and travelers to untreated tap water and contaminated foods. A score could enhance awareness for the risk of fecal-oral transmission. A simple score was developed based on the frequency of defecating in the open (country prevalence >1%), occurrence of domestic cholera in the period between 2021 and 2017 (≥1 case in a country in 5 years) and reported typhoid fever cases between 2015 and 2019 (rate >2/105/year)...

Cargo ships are at risk of disease outbreaks like Legionella and SARS-CoV-2 due to their cramped and shared conditions. A case of medical evacuation due to co-infection of Legionella pneumophila with SARS-CoV-2 highlights the need for international infection control guidelines, information networks, and molecular epidemiological approaches for identifying infection routes.

We reported here a case of disseminated cutaneo-mucosal leishmaniasis caused by L. braziliensis in a traveller returning from Bolivia, probably favoured by an underlying idiopathic CD4-lymphocytopenia. Third-line therapy with 51 mg/kg total dose of liposomal amphotericin B led to a sustained complete clinical cure.

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BACKGROUND: Exposure to pathogens in public transport systems is a common means of spreading infection, mainly by inhaling aerosol or droplets from infected individuals. Such particles also contaminate surfaces, creating a potential surface-transmission pathway. METHODS: A fast acoustic biosensor with an antifouling nano-coating was introduced to detect SARS-CoV-2 on exposed surfaces in the Prague Public Transport System. Samples were measured directly without pre-treatment...

BACKGROUND: International travellers frequently acquire infectious diseases while travelling, yet relatively little is known about the impact and economic burden of these illnesses on travellers. We conducted a prospective exploratory costing study on adult returning travellers with falciparum malaria, dengue, chikungunya, or Zika virus. METHODS: Patients were recruited in eight Travel and Tropical Medicine clinics between June 2016 and March 2020 upon travellers' first contact with the health system in their country of residence...

BACKGROUND: No licensed human vaccines are available against enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC), a major diarrhoeal pathogen affecting children in low and middle-income countries (LMIC) and foreign travellers alike. ETVAX®, a multivalent oral whole-cell vaccine containing four inactivated ETEC strains and the heat-labile enterotoxin B subunit (LTB), has proved promising in Phase 1 and Phase 1/Phase 2 studies. METHODS: We conducted a Phase 2b double-blinded, randomised, placebo-controlled trial among Finnish travellers to Benin, West-Africa...

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BACKGROUND: Climate change and globalization contribute to the expansion of mosquito vectors and their associated pathogens. Long spared, temperate regions have had to deal with the emergence of arboviruses traditionally confined to tropical regions. Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) was reported for the first time in Europe in 2007, causing a localized outbreak in Italy, which then recurred repeatedly over the years in other European localities. This raises the question of climate effects, particularly temperature, on the dynamics of vector-borne viruses...

BACKGROUND: Perceived adverse effects of antimalarial chemoprophylaxis can be difficult to distinguish from travel-related illness and are often cited as important reasons for non-adherence or refusal of antimalarial chemoprophylaxis. We aimed to investigate the occurrence of symptoms of illness in travellers with and without chemoprophylaxis in a cross-sectional study after travel and to identify risk factors for non-adherence to prophylaxis. METHODS: We enrolled 458 travellers to Africa and South America during their pre-travel medical consultation at the travel clinic of the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf and conducted post travel interviews on symptoms of illness and intake of malaria prophylaxis...

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