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
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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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author Avni, Chen
Stienlauf, Shmuel
Meltzer, Eyal
Sidi, Yechezkel
Schwartz, Eli
Leshem, Eyal
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description 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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spelling pubmed-58752702018-04-06 Region-Specific, Life-Threatening Diseases among International Travelers from Israel, 2004–2015 Avni, Chen Stienlauf, Shmuel Meltzer, Eyal Sidi, Yechezkel Schwartz, Eli Leshem, Eyal Emerg Infect Dis Dispatch 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. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2018-04 /pmc/articles/PMC5875270/ /pubmed/29553319 http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2404.171542 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is a publication of the U.S. Government. This publication is in the public domain and is therefore without copyright. All text from this work may be reprinted freely. Use of these materials should be properly cited.
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