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War, migration and Cystic Echinococcosis
Recently we came across a publication on helminthic infections in returning travelers and migrants with eosinophilia in Germany [1], which prompted us to point out an important health issue in migrants and travelers in European countries. These countries face a number of risk factors related to development, transmission, and spread of zoonotic diseases such as helminth infections. (Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease)
Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease - September 28, 2018 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Aisha Khan, Haroon Ahmed, Sami Simsek Source Type: research

Epidemiology of Japanese Encephalitis in China (2004 –2015)
We read the paper on surveillance of mosquito-borne infections in China with interest [1] and would like to analyze the epidemiological information of Japanese encephalitis (JE) outbreaks in different places of China to frame its control strategies. (Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease)
Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease - September 26, 2018 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Hui Zhang, Yaping Wang, Kun Li, Khalid Mehmood, Rui Gui, Jiakui Li Tags: Letter to the Editor Source Type: research

Should travellers be offered vaccination against the dengue virus?
Dengue fever is expanding into new areas due to travel, climate change, urbanization, and the widening geographic range of the main vectors Ae.aegypti and Ae.albopictus [1].The newly licensed, tetravalent vaccine, Dengvaxia (CYD-TDV) by Sanofi Pasteur,has surprisingly been shown to increase the risk of severe dengue virus disease in persons not previously exposed to dengue virus. This has halted the roll out of the vaccine in endemic areas. In this editorial we argue that the new vaccine may have a place for travellers from non-endemic to endemic areas, who have previously experienced a dengue virus infection. (Source: Tra...
Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease - September 26, 2018 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Emilie Javelle, Asma Al Balushi, Sanne Jespersen, Seif Al Abri, Philippe Gautret, Eskild Petersen Source Type: research

Travel and tick-borne diseases: Lyme disease and beyond
On a global scale, ticks are second only to mosquitoes as the most important of vectors of infectious disease agents of humans [1]. Ticks transmit a greater diversity of viral, bacterial and protozoan infections than any other arthropod on earth, and in many temperate regions of the world, including Europe and the United States, tick-borne diseases (TBD) are the most widespread and medically important of all vector-borne infections. Lyme borreliosis, caused by Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato species and transmitted by various Ixodes spp., afflicts tens and possibly hundreds of thousands of persons in the Northern Hemispher...
Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease - September 26, 2018 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Philippe Parola, Christopher D. Paddock Source Type: research

No detection of Zika virus infection in asymptomatic Dutch military personnel after deployment in high endemic areas (Belize, Curacao, Saint Martin) from December 2016 to December 2017
Dear Editor, at the start of the Zika outbreak we reported on imported infections in Dutch travellers [1]. Since late 2015, a large outbreak of Zika virus disease has spread across South and Central America. Concurrently, strong evidence has emerged that the virus, which usually only causes mild disease in adults, is the cause of various degrees of fetal developmental disorders, which was dramatically illustrated by an unusual number of microcephaly cases among newborns in Brazil. An important and unanswered question to date is the actual risk of sexual transmission from (symptomatic or asymptomatic) males returning from Z...
Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease - September 20, 2018 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Cornelis A. De Pijper, Martin P. Grobusch, Abraham Goorhuis, Cornelis Stijnis, Gerrit Koen, Janke Schinkel Source Type: research

Alcoholism in internally displaced people of Colombia: An ecological study
United Nations estimated that over 65 million people worldwide are currently displaced by war, armed conflict or persecution [1]. Most of the conflict-affected populations, internally displaced people (IDPs) and refugees, are concentrated in low- and middle-income countries, in different regions of the world [1,2]. Colombia is the Latin American country identified as the one with the highest amount of IDPs in the world. (Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease)
Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease - September 19, 2018 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Mariana Lagos-Gallego, Julio C ésar Gutiérrez-Segura, Guillermo J. Lagos-Grisales, Alfonso J. Rodríguez-Morales Tags: Letter to the Editor Source Type: research

Performance of the point-of-care circulating cathodic antigen (POC-CCA) urine cassette test for follow-up after treatment of S. mansoni infection in Eritrean refugees
Point-of-care circulating cathodic antigen (POC-CCA) urine cassette testing has become a popular approach to screen for Schistosoma infection. Since the test is also increasingly used for following-up of treatment success, we assessed the assay's diagnostic accuracy after praziquantel treatment of S. mansoni infection among Eritrean refugees in Switzerland. (Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease)
Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease - September 17, 2018 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Andreas Neumayr, Afona Chernet, V éronique Sydow, Kerstin Kling, Esther Kuenzli, Hanspeter Marti, Daniel H. Paris, Beatrice Nickel, Niklaus D. Labhardt Source Type: research

Failure of intravenous artesunate treatment for Plasmodium falciparum malaria in a splenectomized traveller: A diagnostic challenge
A 55-year-old caucasian traveller was admitted to the intensive care unit of Hospital Clinic of Barcelona for severe Plasmodium falciparum malaria after a 4-day business trip to Sierra Leona. His past medical history included hypertension, dyslipidaemia, type 2 diabetes mellitus, obesity and a splenectomy after a car crash, 15 years before the current episode. The patient only took antimalarial chemoprophylaxis with atovaquone/proguanil during the first 4 days of his stay in the malaria endemic region. (Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease)
Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease - September 15, 2018 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Javier Marco-Hern ández, Daniel Camprubí, Cristian Aylagas, Himanshu Gupta, Pedro Castro Tags: Diagnostic Challenge Source Type: research

Lack of seasonal variation of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV)
Seasonality of disease, mainly of respiratory pathogens, is a key feature [1]. The Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) is a newly emerging respiratory viral infection and causes asymptomatic or mild infection and may result in a life threatening disease with a high case fatality rate. As reported by the World Health Organization, the virus caused a total of the WHO reported 2143 laboratory-confirmed cases from 27 countries, including 750 (35%) deaths. It is important to understand the transmission of the virus as well as if there is any seasonal variation in the transmission between humans and animals. ...
Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease - September 12, 2018 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Jaffar A. Al-Tawfiq, Ziad A. Memish Source Type: research

Post-malaria neurological syndrome: Imported case series and literature review to unscramble the auto-immune hypothesis
Post-malaria neurological syndrome (PMNS) is a complication that occurs after recovery from a severe Plasmodium falciparum attack. Over the past two decades, the description of several imported cases has confirmed that this syndrome is a clearly distinct entity, different from other post malarial neurological disorders. However, the underlying mechanisms are not yet elucidated. Herein, we present five imported PMNS cases managed in Marseille, France. The detection of neuronal surface antibodies to an encephalitic syndrome of unknown origin allowed us to reveal positivity of anti Voltage-Gated-Potassium Chanel antibodies (a...
Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease - September 11, 2018 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Antoine Poulet, Hanna Bou Ali, Helene Savini, Elsa Kaphan, Philippe Parola Tags: Review Source Type: research

A cross-sectional analysis of Zika virus infection in symptomatic and asymptomatic non-pregnant travellers: Experience of a European reference center during the outbreak in the Americas
Zika virus (ZIKV) infection a concern to travellers because of potential sexual transmission and adverse pregnancy outcomes. (Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease)
Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease - September 8, 2018 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Ralph Huits, Ula Maniewski, Dorien Van Den Bossche, Erica Lotgering, Achilleas Tsoumanis, Lieselotte Cnops, Jan Jacobs, Marjan Van Esbroeck, Emmanuel Bottieau Source Type: research

Tick-borne pathogens in removed ticks Veneto, northeastern Italy: A cross-sectional investigation
In Italy, the incidence of tick-borne diseases in humans is underestimated, as they are not obligatorily notifiable. The aim of this study was to investigate the presence of tick-borne pathogens in ticks removed from human subjects in Veneto region (northeastern Italy), an area for which no published studies are yet available. (Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease)
Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease - September 5, 2018 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Anna Beltrame, Maureen Laroche, Monica Degani, Francesca Perandin, Zeno Bisoffi, Didier Raoult, Philippe Parola Source Type: research

Editorial Board
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Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease - September 1, 2018 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: research

Measles control in a measles-eliminated country, Japan
Measles elimination demonstrates the interruption of local chains of transmission, but the heterogeneity of the immune landscape continues to complicate measles control even in highly vaccinated countries, with a substantial risk of outbreak given imported cases from neighboring areas [1]. Including Japan, only eight out of thirty-three member state countries of the World Health Organization Western Pacific Region (WPR) has been verified of the measles elimination [2 –4]. Even after elimination in Japan, outbreaks following importation has been frequently observed. (Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease)
Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease - August 31, 2018 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Ryo Kinoshita, Kazuki Shimizu, Hiroshi Nishiura Tags: Letter to the Editor Source Type: research

Severe imported falciparum malaria. Dilemmas regarding treatment availability and tolerability
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Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease - August 29, 2018 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Spinello Antinori, Salvatore Sollima, Mario Corbellino, Anna Lisa Ridolfo Source Type: research