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Fever in the Returned Pediatric Traveler
Global mobility has been steadily increasing in recent years. The assessment of the febrile child returning from international travel is a diagnostic challenge. The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly affected international travel and made evaluation and management of the sick returned traveler more ch...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8375340/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34423077 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2333794X211026188 |
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author | Abdel-Haq, Nahed Asmar, Basim I. |
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description | Global mobility has been steadily increasing in recent years. The assessment of the febrile child returning from international travel is a diagnostic challenge. The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly affected international travel and made evaluation and management of the sick returned traveler more challenging. Children visiting friends and relatives abroad remain at higher risk of infection compared to tourists. This review presents a guidance on the initial assessment of a traveling febrile child including interpretation of medical history, physical examination, and laboratory findings. Important clues to etiology include exposure to different infectious agents, incubation periods of pathogens, and prophylaxis regimens and vaccines received. Early identification of potentially life-threatening and highly contagious infections is essential. In this article, we discuss the epidemiology, evaluation, and management of specific travel related infections such as malaria, typhoid fever, dengue fever, viral hemorrhagic fever, rickettsiosis, leptospirosis, schistosomiasis, gastrointestinal, and respiratory infections. |
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spelling | pubmed-83753402021-08-20 Fever in the Returned Pediatric Traveler Abdel-Haq, Nahed Asmar, Basim I. Glob Pediatr Health Review Global mobility has been steadily increasing in recent years. The assessment of the febrile child returning from international travel is a diagnostic challenge. The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly affected international travel and made evaluation and management of the sick returned traveler more challenging. Children visiting friends and relatives abroad remain at higher risk of infection compared to tourists. This review presents a guidance on the initial assessment of a traveling febrile child including interpretation of medical history, physical examination, and laboratory findings. Important clues to etiology include exposure to different infectious agents, incubation periods of pathogens, and prophylaxis regimens and vaccines received. Early identification of potentially life-threatening and highly contagious infections is essential. In this article, we discuss the epidemiology, evaluation, and management of specific travel related infections such as malaria, typhoid fever, dengue fever, viral hemorrhagic fever, rickettsiosis, leptospirosis, schistosomiasis, gastrointestinal, and respiratory infections. SAGE Publications 2021-08-16 /pmc/articles/PMC8375340/ /pubmed/34423077 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2333794X211026188 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Review Abdel-Haq, Nahed Asmar, Basim I. Fever in the Returned Pediatric Traveler |
title | Fever in the Returned Pediatric Traveler |
title_full | Fever in the Returned Pediatric Traveler |
title_fullStr | Fever in the Returned Pediatric Traveler |
title_full_unstemmed | Fever in the Returned Pediatric Traveler |
title_short | Fever in the Returned Pediatric Traveler |
title_sort | fever in the returned pediatric traveler |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8375340/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34423077 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2333794X211026188 |
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