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Importation of travel-related infectious diseases is increasing in South Korea: An analysis of salmonellosis, shigellosis, malaria, and dengue surveillance data
We described the imported infectious diseases in Korea from 2003 to 2012, and to analyze association of travels with the change in the incidences. (Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease)
Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease - September 15, 2017 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Young-June Choe, Seung-Ah Choe, Sung-Il Cho Source Type: research

Importation of infectious diseases are increasing in South Korea: Association with international travels
We described the imported infectious diseases in Korea from 2003 to 2012, and to analyze association of travels with the change in the incidences. (Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease)
Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease - September 15, 2017 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Young-June Choe, Seung-Ah Choe, Sung-Il Cho Source Type: research

Swelling of the right cheek in an Israeli traveler returning from Columbia: A diagnostic challenge
A healthy 28 year-old woman presented to our Clinic with swelling in her right cheek. Ten days previously, she had returned from a three-week trip to Colombia, during which she ingested ceviche and sushi. Upon her return from Colombia she noted swelling lateral to her right eye. The swelling migrated to the right cheek, and then the sub-mandibular region. Examination revealed subcutaneous edema of the right cheek and sub-mandibular area. Three serpiginous red, linear lesions on the right cheek and sub-mandibular area were suggestive of “creeping eruption” (Picture 1). (Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease)
Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease - September 4, 2017 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Yael Paran, Tamar Brufman, Waseem Shehadeh, Oren Katz Source Type: research

Swelling of the right cheek in an Israel traveler returning from Columbia: A diagnostic challenge
A healthy 28 year-old woman presented to our Clinic with swelling in her right cheek. Ten days previously, she had returned from a three-week trip to Colombia, during which she ingested ceviche and sushi. Upon her return from Colombia she noted swelling lateral to her right eye. The swelling migrated to the right cheek, and then the sub-mandibular region. Examination revealed subcutaneous edema of the right cheek and sub-mandibular area. Three serpiginous red, linear lesions on the right cheek and sub-mandibular area were suggestive of “creeping eruption” (Picture 1). (Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease)
Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease - September 4, 2017 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Yael Paran, Tamar Brufman, Waseem Shadae, Oren Katz Source Type: research

Helminthic infections in returning travelers and migrants with eosinophilia: Diagnostic value of medical history, eosinophil count and IgE
Eosinophilia in travelers and migrants returning from the tropics is often associated with invasive helminthic infections. Total IgE is considered as useful additional diagnostic parameter; however, both parameters are also increased in various other non-helminthic diseases. (Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease)
Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease - September 4, 2017 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Helmut J.F. Salzer, Thierry Rolling, Christof D. Vinnemeier, Egbert Tannich, Stefan Schmiedel, Marylyn M. Addo, Jakob P. Cramer Source Type: research

Editorial board
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Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease - September 1, 2017 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: research

Measles and more: Apps, blogs and clips on measles outbreaks and vaccination
With measles currently such a ‘hot topic’ I searched the internet for helpful resources. Many were created some time ago, but the platform that led me to a vast amount of current information was Twitter under a search of #measles. (Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease)
Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease - September 1, 2017 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Jane Chiodini Source Type: research

A bibliometric analysis of global research in Oropouche
During the last decades, an emergence and resurgence of arthropod-borne infections (arbovirus) has been observed. These viruses have a great ability to adapt to both host and vector and to the environment [1]. Genetic rearrangements have been described between different viruses belonging to the genus Orthobunyavirus, which has resulted in viruses with new pathogenic mechanisms. (Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease)
Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease - September 1, 2017 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Carlos Miguel Rios-Gonz ález Source Type: research

Aspergillus – From catholic ceremonies to invasive disease
The name Aspergillus was coined by a Florentine priest and botanist, Petro (sic) Antonino Michelio, in 1729. In Nova Plantarum Genera he described, on page 212, Botrytis (later to become notorious as root rot in vineyards) and Aspergillus (as „plantae genus“). He coined its name from the resemblance of the spray nozzles used in the Catholic church to sprinkle holy water in ceremonies (aspergo in Latin means I sprinkle), to the swollen Aspergillus conidiophores (flask-shaped), and radiating chains of conidia (droplet-like spores) that he had seen under the microscope. (Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease)
Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease - August 26, 2017 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Dieter St ürchler Tags: Spotlight Source Type: research

Communicable and non-communicable disease risks at the Grand Magal of Touba: The largest mass gathering in Senegal
An estimated 4 –5 million individuals gather each year in the holy city of Touba, Senegal during the Grand Magal religious pilgrimage. Pilgrims come from across Senegal and the surrounding countries, as well as from countries outside Africa. It is the largest mass gathering (MG) of the Mouride community and the largest Muslim religious MG in West Africa. (Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease)
Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease - August 25, 2017 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Cheikh Sokhna, Balla Mback é Mboup, Papa Gallo Sow, Gaoussou Camara, Mamadou Dieng, Mbaké Sylla, Lamine Gueye, Doudou Sow, Aldiouma Diallo, Philippe Parola, Didier Raoult, Philippe Gautret Source Type: research

Female Genital Mutilation, “vacation cutting” and the travel medicine consultation
Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is a global issue and the World Health Organization reports in their factsheet of February 2017 that more than 200 million girls and women alive today have been cut in 30 countries in Africa, the Middle East and Asia where FGM is concentrated. FGM is mostly carried out on young girls between infancy and age 15. (Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease)
Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease - August 25, 2017 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Jane Chiodini Source Type: research

Kyasanur forest disease: Another flavivirus requiring more research? Results of a bibliometric assessment
Emerging infectious diseases research on high impact pathogens, such as Ebola is a matter of concern. As has been described by Garg and Kumar in its recent bibliometric analysis of that zoonotic viral disease [1], other emerging pathogens deserve also more analysis. May be this is the case of Kyasanur forest disease (KFD). (Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease)
Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease - August 23, 2017 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales, Valeria Ramirez-Jaramillo, Daniel S ánchez-Carmona, Andrés Felipe Gil-Restrepo, Jaime Andrés Cardona-Ospina, Alberto Paniz-Mondolfi Tags: Letter to the Editor Source Type: research

Measles on the move
Whilst there is a global effort towards measles elimination, and even eradication [1], spatial and temporal analysis of virus transmission between 1954 and 2017 demonstrates ongoing virus transmission in many countries and all world regions to date. Transmission, in fact, does not only occur within countries but is exported across boundaries, with frequencies of export from highly endemic countries such as China, India and Japan being high but decreasing, whilst frequencies of export from low to non-endemic countries such as the USA or Australia is low, but with a tendency to increase [1]. (Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease)
Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease - August 22, 2017 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Martin P. Grobusch, Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales, Mary E. Wilson Source Type: research

Measles in Pakistan: Time to make steps towards eradication
World Health Organization (WHO) measles surveillance data reports reduction in cases of measles globally from 67,524 cases in 2015 to 16,846 in 2016, and reduction in deaths from 546,800 to 114,900 during period of 2000-14. Pakistan is among the five nations where almost a million children did not receive their first dose of measles vaccination, and outbreaks of the disease resulted in 4386 cases in 2011, 14687 cases in 2012 with 310 deaths. In 2013 about 25,401 cases of measles were reported and 321 affected children died. (Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease)
Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease - August 22, 2017 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Inayat Ur Rehman, Allah Bukhsh, Tahir Mehmood Khan Source Type: research

Travel-related acquisition of diarrhoeagenic bacteria, enteral viruses and parasites in a prospective cohort of 98 Dutch travellers
Limited prospective data are available on the acquisition of viral, bacterial and parasitic diarrhoeagenic agents by healthy individuals during travel. (Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease)
Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease - August 22, 2017 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Jarne van Hattem, Maris Arcilla, M.P. Grobusch, Aldert Bart, M.C. Bootsma, P.J. van Genderen, Tom van Gool, A. Goorhuis, Jaap J. van Hellemond, Richard Molenkamp, N. Molhoek, A.M. Oude Lashof, E.E. Stobberingh, Bob de Wever, H.A. Verbrugh, D.C. Melles, J. Source Type: research