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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Autores principales: Avni, Chen, Stienlauf, Shmuel, Meltzer, Eyal, Sidi, Yechezkel, Schwartz, Eli, Leshem, Eyal
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5875270/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29553319
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2404.171542
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Sumario: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.

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