Region-Specific, Life-Threatening Diseases among International Travelers from Israel, 2004-2015

We characterized posttravel hospitalizations of citizens returning to Israel by summarizing the returning traveler hospitalization dataset of the national referral Center for Travel Medicine and Tropical Diseases at Sheba Medical Center in Israel. Of 722 hospitalizations, 181 (25%) infections were l...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Emerging infectious diseases 2018-04, Vol.24 (4), p.790-793
Hauptverfasser:	Avni, Chen, Stienlauf, Shmuel, Meltzer, Eyal, Sidi, Yechezkel, Schwartz, Eli, Leshem, Eyal
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adult chemoprophylaxis Dispatch Female Health aspects History, 21st Century Hospitalization - statistics & numerical data Humans Israel - epidemiology life-threatening malaria Male Medical centers Middle Aged Population Surveillance posttravel hospitalization Preventable Region-Specific, Life-Threatening Diseases among International Travelers from Israel, 2004–2015 prophylaxis Travel Travel Medicine - history Travel Medicine - statistics & numerical data Travel-Related Illness Travelers vaccination
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Zusammenfassung:	We characterized posttravel hospitalizations of citizens returning to Israel by summarizing the returning traveler hospitalization dataset of the national referral Center for Travel Medicine and Tropical Diseases at Sheba Medical Center in Israel. Of 722 hospitalizations, 181 (25%) infections were life-threatening; most would have been preventable by chemoprophylaxis and pretravel vaccination.
ISSN:	1080-6040 1080-6059
DOI:	10.3201/eid2404.171542