Infectious disease following travel to developed regions: a snapshot of presentations to an Australian travel medicine clinic

被引：8

作者：

Drewett, George ^{[1
]}

Leder, Karin ^{[1
,2
]}

机构：

[1] Royal Melbourne Hosp, Doherty Inst Infect & Immun, Victorian Infect Dis Serv, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

[2] Monash Univ, Dept Epidemiol & Prevent Med, Sch Publ Hlth & Prevent Med, Clayton, Vic, Australia

来源：

JOURNAL OF TRAVEL MEDICINE | 2016年 / 23卷 / 06期

关键词：

Travel medicine; infectious disease; developed regions; returned traveller; Australia; travel;

D O I：

10.1093/jtm/taw053

中图分类号：

R1 [预防医学、卫生学];

学科分类号：

1004 ; 120402 ;

摘要：

Much of the travel medicine literature focuses on travel to 'developing' regions by travellers from 'developed' regions; however literature about travel to developed regions is scarce. This article examines presentations to a travel medicine clinic over a 17-year period with illnesses resulting from travel to developed regions. From a cohort of general presentations to the clinic of 1077 patients, 85 patients acquired infections due to travel to developed regions, with a total of 99 infectious diagnoses made. This serves to highlight the risk of infectious disease even among travel to only developed regions, and the importance of travel advice in these situations.

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