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1. Travel-related infections presenting in Europe: A 20-year analysis of EuroTravNet surveillance data

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Grobusch, Martin P, Weld, Leisa, Goorhuis, Abraham, Hamer, Davidson H, Schunk, Mirjam, Jordan, Sabine, Mockenhaupt, Frank P, Chappuis, François, Asgeirsson, Hilmir, Caumes, Eric, Jensenius, Mogens, Van Genderen, Perry JJ, Castelli, Francesco, López-Velez, Rogelio, Field, Vanessa, Bottieau, Emmanuel, Molina, Israel, Rapp, Christophe, Ménendez, Marta Díaz, Gkrania-Klotsas, Effrossyni, Larsen, Carsten S, Malvy, Denis, Lalloo, David, Gobbi, Federico, Florescu, Simin A, Gautret, Philippe, Schlagenhauf, Patricia, For EuroTravNet, Gkrania-Klotsas, Effrossyni [0000-0002-0930-8330], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository

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Geosentinel, Eurotravnet, Infectious diseases, Sentinel surveillance, travel
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Funder: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, BACKGROUND: Disease epidemiology of (re-)emerging infectious diseases is changing rapidly, rendering surveillance of travel-associated illness important. METHODS: We evaluated travel-related illness encountered at EuroTravNet clinics, the European surveillance sub-network of GeoSentinel, between March 1, 1998 and March 31, 2018. FINDINGS: 103,739 ill travellers were evaluated, including 11,239 (10.8%) migrants, 89,620 (86.4%) patients seen post-travel, and 2,880 (2.8%) during and after travel. Despite increasing numbers of patient encounters over 20 years, the regions of exposure by year of clinic visits have remained stable. In 5-year increments, greater proportions of patients were migrants or visiting friends and relatives (VFR); business travel-associated illness remained stable; tourism-related illness decreased. Falciparum malaria was amongst the most-frequently diagnosed illnesses with 5,254 cases (5.1% of all patients) and the most-frequent cause of death (risk ratio versus all other illnesses 2.5:1). Animal exposures requiring rabies post-exposure prophylaxis increased from 0.7% (1998-2002) to 3.6% (2013-2018). The proportion of patients with seasonal influenza increased from zero in 1998-2002 to 0.9% in 2013-2018. There were 44 cases of viral haemorrhagic fever, most during the past five years. Arboviral infection numbers increased significantly as did the range of presenting arboviral diseases, dengue and chikungunya diagnoses increased by 2.6% and 1%, respectively. INTERPRETATION: Travel medicine must adapt to serve the changing profile of travellers, with an increase in migrants and persons visiting relatives and friends and the strong emergence of vector-borne diseases, with potential for further local transmission in Europe. FUNDING: This project was supported by a cooperative agreement (U50CK00189) between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to the International Society of Travel Medicine (ISTM) and funding from the ISTM and the Public Health Agency of Canada.

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2022
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2. Travel-related infections presenting in Europe: a 20-year analysis of EuroTravNet surveillance data

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Grobusch, Martin P., Weld, Leisa, Goorhuis, Abraham, Hamer, Davidson H., Schunk, Mirjam, Jordan, Sabine, Mockenhaupt, Frank P., Chappuis, François, Asgeirsson, Hilmir, Caumes, Eric, Jensenius, Mogens, van Genderen, Perry J.J., Castelli, Francesco, López-Velez, Rogelio, Field, Vanessa, Bottieau, Emmanuel, Molina, Israel, Rapp, Christophe, Ménendez, Marta Díaz, Gkrania-Klotsas, Effrossyni, Larsen, Carsten S., Malvy, Denis, Lalloo, David, Gobbi, Federico, Florescu, Simin A., Gautret, Philippe, Schlagenhauf, Patricia, Stijnis, Kees, van Vugt, Michèle, Rothe, Camilla, von Sonnenburg, Frank, Vinnemeier, Christof, Ramharter, Michael, Equihua Martinez, Gabriela, Gertler, Maximilian, Eperon, Gilles, Ursing, Johan, Glans, Hedvig, Hægeland, Arnhild, Joof, Mona, Stuij, Corine, Odolini, Silvia, Tomasoni, Lina, Chamorro, Sandra, Lankester, Ted, Salvador, Fernando, Serre-Delcor, Nuria, Ficko, Cécile, Trigo, Elena, Warne, Benjamin, Jespersen, Sanne, Weijse, Christian, Duvignaud, Alexandre, Pistone, Thierry, Beeching, Nicholas, Beadsworth, Mike, Rodari, Paola, Moro, Lucia, Popescu, Corneliu P., Zaharia, Mihaela F., Javelle, Emilie, Parola, Philippe, Weber, Rainer, and Schmid-Stoll, Sabine

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wa_108
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Background\ud Disease epidemiology of (re-)emerging infectious diseases is changing rapidly, rendering surveillance of travel-associated illness important.\ud \ud Methods\ud We evaluated travel-related illness encountered at EuroTravNet clinics, the European surveillance sub-network of GeoSentinel, between March 1, 1998 and March 31, 2018.\ud \ud Findings\ud 103,739 ill travellers were evaluated, including 11,239 (10.8%) migrants, 89,620 (86.4%) patients seen post-travel, and 2,880 (2.8%) during and after travel. Despite increasing numbers of patient encounters over 20 years, the regions of exposure by year of clinic visits have remained stable. In 5-year increments, greater proportions of patients were migrants or visiting friends and relatives (VFR); business travel-associated illness remained stable; tourism-related illness decreased. Falciparum malaria was amongst the most-frequently diagnosed illnesses with 5,254 cases (5.1% of all patients) and the most-frequent cause of death (risk ratio versus all other illnesses 2.5:1). Animal exposures requiring rabies post-exposure prophylaxis increased from 0.7% (1998-2002) to 3.6% (2013-2018). The proportion of patients with seasonal influenza increased from zero in 1998-2002 to 0.9% in 2013-2018. There were 44 cases of viral haemorrhagic fever, most during the past five years. Arboviral infection numbers increased significantly as did the range of presenting arboviral diseases, Dengue and chikungunya diagnoses increased by 2.6% and 1%, respectively.\ud \ud Interpretation\ud Travel medicine must adapt to serve the changing profile of travellers, with an increase in migrants and persons visiting relatives and friends and the strong emergence of vector-borne diseases, with potential for further local transmission in Europe.\ud \ud Funding\ud This project was supported by a cooperative agreement (U50CK00189) between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to the International Society of Travel Medicine (ISTM) and funding from the ISTM and the Public Health Agency of Canada.

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2020

3. Cutaneous and mucocutaneous leishmaniasis in travellers and migrants: a 20-year GeoSentinel Surveillance Network analysis

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Boggild, Andrea, Caumes, Eric, Grobusch, Martin, Schwartz, Eli, Hynes, Noreen, Libman, Michael, Connor, Bradley, Chakrabarti, Sumontra, Parola, Philippe, Keystone, Jay, Nash, Theodore, Showler, Adrienne, Schunk, Mirjam, Asgeirsson, Hilmir, Hamer, Davidson, Kain, Kevin, Von Sonnenburg, Frank, Rothe, Camilla, Jordan, Sabine, Vinnemeier, Christof, Yansouni, Cedric, McCarthy, Anne, Jensenius, Mogens, Goorhuis, Abraham, Coyle, Christina, Mockenhaupt, Frank, Harms-Zwingengerger, Gundel, Leung, Daniel, Benson, Scott, Gautret, Philippe, Javelle, Emilie, Chappuis, François, Rapp, Christophe, Ficko, Cécile, Van Genderen, Perry, Glans, Hedvig, Beadsworth, Michael, Beeching, Nicholas, Castelli, Francesco, Matteelli, Alberto, Plewes, Katherine, Mirzanejad, Yazdan, López-Vélez, Rogelio, Chamorro, Sandra, Waggoner, Jesse, Wu, Henry, Leder, Karin, Torresi, Joseph, Bottieau, Emmanuel, Huits, Ralph, Chen, Lin, Bourque, Daniel, Alpern, Jonathan, Stauffer, William, Cahill, John, Wyler, Ben, Haulman, Jean, Terry, Anne, Licitra, Carmelo, Taylor, Ashley, Perret Perez, Cecilia, Weitzel, Thomas, Gkrania-Klotsas, Effrossyni, Warne, Ben, Schlagenhauf, Patricia, Weber, Rainer, Schade Larsen, Carsten, Wejse, Christian, Barnett, Elizabeth, Hochberg, Natasha, Barkati, Sapha, Vincelette, Jean, Molina, Israel, Malvy, Denis, Duvignaud, Alexandre, Mendelson, Marc, Parker, Salim, Johnston, Victoria, Field, Vanessa, Kuhn, Susan, Piyaphanee, Watcharapong, Silachamroon, Udomsak, Diaz-Menendez, Marta, Kelly, Paul, Blumberg, Lucille, de Frey, Albie, Pandey, Prativa, Amatya, Bhawana, Mavunda, Kunjana, Saio, Mauro, CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [APHP], Department of Infectious Diseases [Amsterdam, Netherlands] (Academic Medical Center), University of Amsterdam [Amsterdam] (UvA)-Center for Tropical and Travel Medicine [Amsterdam, Netherlands], Laboratoire de Photophysique et Photochimie Supramoléculaires et Macromoléculaires (PPSM), École normale supérieure - Cachan (ENS Cachan)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre for Tropical Diseases [Montréal] (TDC), McGill University, Vecteurs - Infections tropicales et méditerranéennes (VITROME), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut de Recherche Biomédicale des Armées (IRBA), Department of Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany, Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine, Tropical Disease Unit [Toronto, Canada], University of Toronto, Hôpital d'Instruction des Armées Laveran, Service de Santé des Armées, Geneva University Hospitals - HUG [Switzerland], Hôpital d'Instruction des Armées Begin, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Victoria, Australia, Monash University [Clayton], Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge University NHS Trust, Service de médecine interne et maladies infectieuses, CHU Bordeaux [Bordeaux]-Groupe hospitalier Pellegrin, Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 (UPD5), University of Cape Town, National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), CIWEC Clinic Travel Medicine Center, Katmandu, CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU), École normale supérieure - Cachan (ENS Cachan)-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), McGill University = Université McGill [Montréal, Canada], Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine - Bernhard-Nocht-Institut für Tropenmedizin [Hamburg, Germany] (BNITM), National Institute for Communicable Diseases [Johannesburg] (NICD), Infectious diseases, AII - Infectious diseases, APH - Aging & Later Life, APH - Global Health, and Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut de Recherche Biomédicale des Armées [Brétigny-sur-Orge] (IRBA)

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Leishmaniasis, Mucocutaneous, Male, Immigration, 0302 clinical medicine, [SDV.MHEP.MI]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Infectious diseases, Epidemiology, Species identification, 030212 general & internal medicine, Political instability, Child, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, media_common, Aged, 80 and over, Transients and Migrants, Cutaneous leishmaniasis, Geosentinel, Mucosal leishmaniasis, Skin lesions after travel, Tegumentary leishmaniasis, Vector-borne disease, [SDV.MHEP.ME]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Emerging diseases, General Medicine, Middle Aged, 3. Good health, Child, Preschool, [SDV.MP.VIR]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology/Virology, Female, Original Article, Travel-Related Illness, Adult, Costa Rica, Bolivia, Canada, medicine.medical_specialty, Adolescent, media_common.quotation_subject, 030231 tropical medicine, Young Adult, 03 medical and health sciences, [SDV.MHEP.CSC]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Cardiology and cardiovascular system, medicine, Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis, Humans, [SDV.MP.PAR]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology/Parasitology, Aged, Syria, business.industry, Afghanistan, Infant, Leishmaniasis, Mucocutaneous leishmaniasis, medicine.disease, [SDV.MP.BAC]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology/Bacteriology, business, Demography
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Background Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) may be emerging among international travellers and migrants. Limited data exist on mucocutaneous leishmaniasis (MCL) in travellers. We describe the epidemiology of travel-associated CL and MCL among international travellers and immigrants over a 20-year period through descriptive analysis of GeoSentinel data. Methods Demographic and travel-related data on returned international travellers diagnosed with CL or MCL at a GeoSentinel Surveillance Network site between 1 September 1997 and 31 August 2017 were analysed. Results A total of 955 returned travellers or migrants were diagnosed with travel-acquired CL (n = 916) or MCL during the study period, of whom 10% (n = 97) were migrants. For the 858 non-migrant travellers, common source countries were Bolivia (n = 156, 18.2%) and Costa Rica (n = 97, 11.3%), while for migrants, they were Syria (n = 34, 35%) and Afghanistan (n = 22, 22.7%). A total of 99 travellers (10%) acquired their disease on trips of ≤ 2 weeks. Of 274 cases for which species identification was available, Leishmania Viannia braziliensis was the most well-represented strain (n = 117, 42.7%), followed by L. major (n = 40, 14.6%) and L. V. panamensis (n = 38, 13.9%). Forty cases of MCL occurred, most commonly in tourists (n = 29, 72.5%) and from Bolivia (n = 18, 45%). A total of 10% of MCL cases were acquired in the Old World. Conclusions Among GeoSentinel reporting sites, CL is predominantly a disease of tourists travelling mostly to countries in Central and South America such as Bolivia where risk of acquiring L. V. braziliensis and subsequent MCL is high. The finding that some travellers acquired leishmaniasis on trips of short duration challenges the common notion that CL is a disease of prolonged travel. Migrants from areas of conflict and political instability, such as Afghanistan and Syria, were well represented, suggesting that as mass migration of refugees continues, CL will be increasingly encountered in intake countries.

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2019
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4. Malaria after international travel: a GeoSentinel analysis, 2003-2016

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Angelo, Kristina M., Libman, Michael, Caumes, Eric, Hamer, Davidson H., Kain, Kevin C., Leder, Karin, Grobusch, Martin P., Hagmann, Stefan H., Kozarsky, Phyllis, Lalloo, David G., Lim, Poh-Lian, Patimeteeporn, Calvin, Gautret, Philippe, Odolini, Silvia, Chappuis, Franã§ois, Esposito, Douglas H., Javelle, Emilie, Castelli, Francesco, Matteelli, Alberto, Perignon, Alice, Rothe, Camilla, Rapp, Christoph, Ficko, Cecile, Schwartz, Eli, Von Sonnenburg, Frank, Piyaphanee, Watcharapong, Silachamroon, Udomsak, Boggild, Andrea, Van Genderen, Perry, Torresi, Joe, Jensenius, Mogens, Kanagawa, Shuzo, Kato, Yasuyuki, Yansouni, Cedric, Mccarthy, Anne, Kelly, Paul, Goorhuis, Bram, López-Vélez, Rogelio, Norman, Francesco, Mendelson, Marc, Vincent, Peter, Gkrania-Klotsas, Effrossyni, Warne, Ben, Malvy, Denis, Duvignaud, Alexandre, Bottieau, Emanuel, Clerinx, Joannes, Coyle, Christina, Àsgeirsson, Hilmer, Glans, Hedvig, Schlagenhauf, Patricia, Weber, Rainer, Mockenhaupt, Frank, Harms-Zwingenberger, Gundel, Beeching, Nicholas, Hajek, Jan, Ghesquiere, Wayne, Henry, Wu, Barnett, Elizabeth, Hockberg, Natasha, Yoshimura, Yukiriro, Tachikawa, Natsuo, Cahill, John, Mckinley, George, Stauffer, William, Walker, Pat, Kuhn, Susan, Chen, Lin, Leung, Daniel, Benson, Scott, Larsen, Carsten Schade, Wejse, Christian, Field, Vanessa, Licitra, Carmelo, Klochko, Alena, Hynes, Noreen, Perez, Cecilia Perret, Connor, Bradley, Murphy, Holly, Pandey, Prativa, Vincelette, Jean, Barkati, Sapha, Florescu, Simin Aysel, Popescu, Corneliu Petru, Blumberg, Lucille, De Frey, Albie, Anderson, Susan, Shaw, Marc, Hern, Annemarie, Molina, Israel, Yates, Johnnie, Siu, Hugo, Valdez, Luis Manuel, Haulman, Jean, Roesel, David, Phu, Phi Truong Hoang, Borwein, Sarah, Division of Global Migration and Quarantine [Atlanta, GA, USA], Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Centre for Tropical Diseases [Montréal] (TDC), McGill University = Université McGill [Montréal, Canada], CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU), Department of Global Health and Center for Global Health and Development [Boston, MA, USA], Boston University [Boston] (BU), Tropical Disease Unit [Toronto, Canada], University of Toronto, Victorian Infectious Diseases Service [Victoria, Australia], The Royal Melbourne Hospital, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine [Monash University-Melbourne], Monash University [Melbourne], Department of Infectious Diseases [Amsterdam, Netherlands] (Academic Medical Center), University of Amsterdam [Amsterdam] (UvA)-Center for Tropical and Travel Medicine [Amsterdam, Netherlands], Cohen Children’s Medical Center, Department of Medicine [Atlanta, GA, USA], Emory University [Atlanta, GA], Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM), Institute of Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology [Singapore, Singapore], Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University [Singapour], Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses Tropicales Emergentes (URMITE), Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes (URMITE), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-IFR48, Institut des sciences biologiques (INSB-CNRS)-Institut des sciences biologiques (INSB-CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-IFR48, Institut des sciences biologiques (INSB-CNRS)-Institut des sciences biologiques (INSB-CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases [Brescia, Italy], University of Brescia and Spedali Civili General Hospital [Brescia, Italy], Geneva University Hospitals - HUG [Switzerland], Service des maladies infectieuses et tropicales [CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU), Tan Tock Seng Hospital [Singapore, Singapore], Nanyang Technological University (NTU), INSB-INSB-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-IFR48, INSB-INSB-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), COMBE, Isabelle, Service de Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales [CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière], AII - Infectious diseases, APH - Global Health, Infectious diseases, APH - Aging & Later Life, AII - Amsterdam institute for Infection and Immunity, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine), Hamer, Davidson H [0000-0002-4700-1495], Kain, Kevin C [0000-0001-6068-1272], Lalloo, David G [0000-0001-7680-2200], Gautret, Philippe [0000-0002-1664-958X], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository

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Plasmodium, Plasmodium vivax, 0302 clinical medicine, GeoSentinel, International travel, Malaria, Plasmodium spp, Parasitology, Infectious Diseases, Interquartile range, [SDV.MHEP.MI]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Infectious diseases, Medicine, Science::Medicine [DRNTU], 030212 general & internal medicine, [SDV.MHEP.ME] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Emerging diseases, Travel, [SDV.MHEP.ME]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Emerging diseases, biology, wa_108, 3. Good health, Chemoprophylaxis, [SDV.MHEP.MI] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Infectious diseases, Risk, medicine.medical_specialty, Visiting friends and relatives, lcsh:Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine, lcsh:RC955-962, 030231 tropical medicine, lcsh:Infectious and parasitic diseases, 03 medical and health sciences, Environmental health, parasitic diseases, Journal Article, Humans, lcsh:RC109-216, business.industry, Public health, Research, Plasmodium falciparum, biology.organism_classification, medicine.disease, wc_750, [SDV.SPEE] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, qx_135, Immunology, Tropical medicine, [SDV.SPEE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, business, human activities
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Background\ud \ud More than 30,000 malaria cases are reported annually among international travellers. Despite improvements in malaria control, malaria continues to threaten travellers due to inaccurate perception of risk and sub-optimal pre-travel preparation.\ud \ud Methods\ud \ud Records with a confirmed malaria diagnosis after travel from January 2003 to July 2016 were obtained from GeoSentinel, a global surveillance network of travel and tropical medicine providers that monitors travel-related morbidity. Records were excluded if exposure country was missing or unascertainable or if there was a concomitant acute diagnosis unrelated to malaria. Records were analyzed to describe the demographic and clinical characteristics of international travellers with malaria.\ud \ud Results\ud \ud There were 5689 travellers included; 325 were children

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2017
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5. Travel and migration associated infectious diseases morbidity in Europe, 2008

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Field, Vanessa, Gautret, Philippe, Schlagenhauf, Patricia, Burchard, Gerd-Dieter, Caumes, Eric, Jensenius, Mogens, Castelli, Francesco, Gkrania-Klotsas, Effrossyni, Weld, Leisa, Lopez-Velez, Rogelio, de Vries, Peter, von Sonnenburg, Frank, Loutan, Louis, Parola, Philippe, EuroTravNet network, Gkrania-Klotsas, Effrossyni [0000-0002-0930-8330], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository

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Adult, Aged, 80 and over, Male, Travel, Adolescent, Fever, Gastrointestinal Diseases, Respiratory Tract Diseases, Infant, Newborn, Infant, Middle Aged, Communicable Diseases, Skin Diseases, Europe, Young Adult, Child, Preschool, Humans, Child, Travel Medicine, Aged
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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 European travellers, we analysed diagnoses with demographic, clinical and travel-related predictors of disease, in 6957 ill returned travellers who presented in 2008 to EuroTravNet centres with a presumed travel associated condition. RESULTS: Gastro-intestinal (GI) diseases accounted for 33% of illnesses, followed by febrile systemic illnesses (20%), dermatological conditions (12%) and respiratory illnesses (8%). There were 3 deaths recorded; a sepsis caused by Escherichia coli pyelonephritis, a dengue shock syndrome and a Plasmodium falciparum malaria.GI conditions included bacterial acute diarrhea (6.9%), as well as giardiasis and amebasis (2.3%). Among febrile systemic illnesses with identified pathogens, malaria (5.4%) accounted for most cases followed by dengue (1.9%) and others including chikungunya, rickettsial diseases, leptospirosis, brucellosis, Epstein Barr virus infections, tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) and viral hepatitis. Dermatological conditions were dominated by bacterial infections, arthropod bites, cutaneous larva migrans and animal bites requiring rabies post-exposure prophylaxis and also leishmaniasis, myasis, tungiasis and one case of leprosy. Respiratory illness included 112 cases of tuberculosis including cases of multi-drug resistant or extensively drug resistant tuberculosis, 104 cases of influenza like illness, and 5 cases of Legionnaires disease. Sexually transmitted infections (STI) accounted for 0.6% of total diagnoses and included HIV infection and syphilis. A total of 165 cases of potentially vaccine preventable diseases were reported. Purpose of travel and destination specific risk factors was identified for several diagnoses such as Chagas disease in immigrant travellers from South America and P. falciparum malaria in immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa. Travel within Europe was also associated with health risks with distinctive profiles for Eastern and Western Europe. CONCLUSIONS: In 2008, a broad spectrum of travel associated diseases were diagnosed at EuroTravNet core sites. Diagnoses varied according to regions visited by ill travellers. The spectrum of travel associated morbidity also shows that there is a need to dispel the misconception that travel, close to home, in Europe, is without significant health risk.

Published
2010

7. Arboviral and other illnesses in travellers returning from Brazil, June 2013 to May 2016: implications for the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games

Author

Gautret, Philippe, Mockenhaupt, Frank, Grobusch, Martin P, Rothe, Camilla, von Sonnenburg, Frank, van Genderen, Perry J, Chappuis, Francois, Asgeirsson, Hilmir, Caumes, Eric, Bottieau, Emmanuel, Malvy, Denis, Lopez-Vélez, Rogelio, Jensenius, Mogens, Larsen, Carsten Schade, Castelli, Francesco, Rapp, Christophe, Field, Vanessa, Molina, Israel, Gkrania-Klotsas, Effrossyni, Florescu, Simin, Lalloo, David, and Schlagenhauf, Patricia

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3. Good health

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