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SA Society for Travel Medicine
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Background The WHO recommends that all suspect malaria cases be tested before receiving treatment. Rapid diagnostic tests (RDT) for malaria can be performed reliably by community health workers with no formal medical background and thus, RDTs could also ...
Delphine Berthod +5 more
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Implementing the National Incident Management System as a Framework for Travel Medicine in Haiti [PDF]
Introduction: For the past 7 years, a nursing school has conducted biannual medical missions in a virtually inaccessible area in Haiti. Each medical mission team provides primary care, pediatric and gynecological examinations for up to 6 days in the ...
Kenya Snowden +11 more
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Background European travellers to endemic countries are at risk of malaria and may be affected by a different range of co-morbidities than natives of endemic regions.
Nicolas Vignier +25 more
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Travel Medicine for the Extreme Traveler [PDF]
Particular risks and recommendations are identified for backpacking, trekking, scuba diving, snorkeling, spelunking, white water rafting, sailing, backcountry snow skiing, climbing, and mountaineering. Pre-travel screening for medically austere and physically demanding destinations should concentrate on underlying cardiovascular risk and occult medical
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Citation Analysis of the Most Influential Publications in Travel Medicine [PDF]
Introduction: Citation analysis reflects the extent to which published work has been recognized in the scientific community. The purpose of this study was to characterize the most cited publications in travel medicine.Methods: Travel medicine articles ...
Darragh Browne, Gerard Flaherty
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Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Adults Associated with Recent Infection with COVID-19
Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in adults (MIS-A) is an uncommon but severe and still understudied post-infectious complication of COVID-19. Clinically, the disease manifests itself most often 2–6 weeks after overcoming the infection.
Ondrej Zahornacky +3 more
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Travel Medicine in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries [PDF]
Depending on the characteristics of both the traveler as well as the journey, travel can pose various health risks. Hence, travel medicine, which is concerned with the promotion of health and prevention of disease among international travelers while ...
Mohamed Bala +2 more
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Borreliosis and Travel Medicine [PDF]
For several decades, borreliosis was synonymous with relapsing fever. Since the discovery of the agent of Lyme disease at the beginning of the 1980s, the term borreliosis now covers both relapsing fever and Lyme borreliosis. The relapsing fevers form a group of similar diseases that differ from each other, principally, in the different arthropod hosts ...
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Vaccination against dengue fever for travellers Statement of the Swiss Expert Committee for Travel Medicine, an organ of the Swiss Society for Tropical and Travel Medicine, August 2024 [PDF]
Dengue fever, endemic to most tropical and subtropical countries, is a major cause of illness in travellers, but severe dengue, hospitalisation and death are considered rare in this population.
de Vallière, Serge +24 more
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