{"title":"Risk of mosquito-borne diseases in pilgrims to the grand Magal de Touba in Senegal.","authors":"Coumba Diouf, Ihssane Ouaddane, Ndiaw Goumballa, Masse Sambou, Hubert Bassène, Philippe Gautret, Cheikh Sokhna","doi":"10.1093/jtm/taae077","DOIUrl":"10.1093/jtm/taae077","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17407,"journal":{"name":"Journal of travel medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":9.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11227737/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141432242","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jay Graham, Nam Nguyen, Dania Hussain, Maya L Nadimpalli
{"title":"Traveller studies in low- and middle-income countries: a critical gap in global antibiotic resistance surveillance.","authors":"Jay Graham, Nam Nguyen, Dania Hussain, Maya L Nadimpalli","doi":"10.1093/jtm/taae019","DOIUrl":"10.1093/jtm/taae019","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17407,"journal":{"name":"Journal of travel medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":9.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139672116","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chloe Tarlton, Steven James, Barnaby Dixson, Judy Craft
{"title":"Travel health practices, behaviours and experiences of people living with type 1 diabetes.","authors":"Chloe Tarlton, Steven James, Barnaby Dixson, Judy Craft","doi":"10.1093/jtm/taae023","DOIUrl":"10.1093/jtm/taae023","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>There are limited data regarding the international travel history and preparation, as well as glycaemic control practices, risk behaviours and experiences of people with type 1 diabetes during travel. Our review aimed to address the research question: 'What are the health practices, behaviours and experiences of people with type 1 diabetes when travelling?'</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We conducted a mixed-methods narrative review using adapted review methods from the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination and standards developed by the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis. MEDLINE, Scopus, PubMed and CINAHL, and the reference lists of all eligible studies were searched.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Nine records comprising of 11 studies were included, with data heralding from various countries, published between 1990 and 2022. We identified three main themes: travel preparation (type of travel, planning and advice seeking); issues related to air travel (airports and airport security, hypoglycaemia and hyperglycaemia, and insulin) and general travel-related issues (illness and medical treatment, type 1 diabetes management, and major concerns and barriers).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Our findings highlighted the lack of quality data regarding type 1 diabetes and travel within the extant literature, as well a pressing need for empirical studies to be undertaken and consensus guidelines developed to improve the travel experiences of people with type 1 diabetes. Unless change is made, people with type 1 diabetes will continue to experience preventable risk and harm while travelling.</p>","PeriodicalId":17407,"journal":{"name":"Journal of travel medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":9.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139712444","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ghania Benabdelmoumen, Rob W Van der Pluijm, Fabien Taieb, Kaoutar Jidar, Lucie Kuhmel, Cora Lucet, Pierre Buffet, Patrick Hochedez, Oula Itani, Paul-Henri Consigny
{"title":"Health problems and exposure to infectious risks in returning humanitarian aid workers.","authors":"Ghania Benabdelmoumen, Rob W Van der Pluijm, Fabien Taieb, Kaoutar Jidar, Lucie Kuhmel, Cora Lucet, Pierre Buffet, Patrick Hochedez, Oula Itani, Paul-Henri Consigny","doi":"10.1093/jtm/taae050","DOIUrl":"10.1093/jtm/taae050","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Humanitarian aid workers are exposed to deployment-related health threats. Identifying subgroups at a higher risk of infection in this diverse population could help optimize prevention.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We carried out a retrospective study based on anonymized data of humanitarian aid workers that visited our clinic for a post-deployment visit between 1 January 2018 and 31 December 2021. We conducted a descriptive analysis of basic demographic data, self-reported risk exposure and health problems encountered during deployment extracted from a standard questionnaire.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The questionnaire was administered to 1238 aid workers during 1529 post-deployment medical consultations. The median age was 37.2 years (IQR 31.7-44.3), and 718/1529 (47.0%) were female aid workers. The median duration of deployment was 6 months (IQR 3-12 months). Most deployments (1321/1529 (86.4%)) were for a medical organization and in Sub-Saharan Africa (73.2%). The most common risk exposures were contact with freshwater in schistosomiasis endemic regions (187/1308 (14.3%)), unprotected sexual contact with a person other than a regular partner (138/1529 (9.0%)), suspected rabies exposure (56/1529 (3.7%)) and accidental exposure to blood (44/1529 (2.9%)). Gastrointestinal problems (487/1529 (31.9%)), malaria (237/1529 (15.5%)) and respiratory tract infections (94/1529 (6,2%)) were the most encountered health problems. Fifteen volunteers (1%) were hospitalized during deployment and 19 (1.2%) repatriated due to health problems. Adherence to malaria chemoprophylaxis was poor, only taken according to the prescription in 355 out of 1225 (29.0%) of aid workers for whom prophylaxis was indicated.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Humanitarian aid workers deployed abroad encounter significant rates of health problems and report a high level of risk exposure during their deployment, with the risks being greatest among younger people, those deployed to rural areas, and those working for non-medical organizations. These findings help guide future pre-deployment consultations, to increase awareness and reduce risk behaviour during deployment, as well as focus on adherence to medical advice such as malaria chemoprophylaxis.</p>","PeriodicalId":17407,"journal":{"name":"Journal of travel medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":9.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140326779","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Human toxoplasmosis as a result of swimming with pink dolphins in the Amazon river?","authors":"Sylvia Lemos Hinrichsen, Tatiana Aguiar Santos Vilella, Reginaldo Gonçalves Lima Neto","doi":"10.1093/jtm/taae082","DOIUrl":"10.1093/jtm/taae082","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17407,"journal":{"name":"Journal of travel medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":9.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141310987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tommaso Manciulli, Lorenzo Zammarchi, Filippo Lagi, Costanza Fiorelli, Jessica Mencarini, Marco Fognani, Gian Maria Rossolini, Simona Pollini, Alessandro Bartoloni, Michele Spinicci
{"title":"Emergence of dengue fever: sentinel travellers uncover outbreak in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, May 2024.","authors":"Tommaso Manciulli, Lorenzo Zammarchi, Filippo Lagi, Costanza Fiorelli, Jessica Mencarini, Marco Fognani, Gian Maria Rossolini, Simona Pollini, Alessandro Bartoloni, Michele Spinicci","doi":"10.1093/jtm/taae080","DOIUrl":"10.1093/jtm/taae080","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17407,"journal":{"name":"Journal of travel medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":9.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141300896","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Kyasanur forest disease in India: a case report.","authors":"Anjely P Sebastian, Muralidhar Varma, Nitin Gupta","doi":"10.1093/jtm/taae071","DOIUrl":"10.1093/jtm/taae071","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17407,"journal":{"name":"Journal of travel medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":9.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140958137","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Liang En Wee, Jue Tao Lim, Janice Yu Jin Tan, Muhammed Ismail Bin Abdul Malek, Calvin Chiew, Lee Ching Ng, Po Ying Chia, Yee Sin Leo, David Chien Boon Lye, Kelvin Bryan Tan
{"title":"Dengue versus COVID-19: comparing the incidence of cardiovascular, neuropsychiatric and autoimmune complications.","authors":"Liang En Wee, Jue Tao Lim, Janice Yu Jin Tan, Muhammed Ismail Bin Abdul Malek, Calvin Chiew, Lee Ching Ng, Po Ying Chia, Yee Sin Leo, David Chien Boon Lye, Kelvin Bryan Tan","doi":"10.1093/jtm/taae081","DOIUrl":"10.1093/jtm/taae081","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>While persistence of chronic symptoms following dengue infection has been documented in small prospective cohorts, population-based studies are limited. The post-acute risk of new-incident multi-systemic complications following dengue infection was contrasted against that following severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection in a multi-ethnic adult Asian population.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>National testing and healthcare claims that databases in Singapore were utilized to build a retrospective population-based adult cohort with laboratory-confirmed infection during overlapping waves of SARS-CoV-2 and dengue transmission (1 July 2021 to 31 October 2022). Risks of new-incident cardiovascular/neuropsychiatric/autoimmune complications 31-300 days of post-dengue infection, contrasted with SARS-CoV-2 infection, were estimated using Cox regression with overlap weights. Risks were reported in terms of adjusted hazard ratio (aHR) and excess burden per 1000 persons.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>11 707 dengue-infected individuals and 1 248 326 contemporaneous coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases were included; the majority had mild initial infection not requiring hospitalization. Amongst dengue-infected individuals, there was 21% [aHR = 1.21 (1.06-1.38)] increased risk of any sequelae, with 55% [aHR = 1.55 (1.27-1.89)] increased risk of cardiovascular sequelae. Specifically, increased risk of dysrhythmias [aHR = 1.79(1.35-2.37)], ischemic heart disease [aHR = 1.45(1.12-1.89)], other cardiac disorders [aHR = 2.21(1.54-3.16)] and thrombotic disorders [aHR = 2.55(1.50-4.35)] was noted. Elevated risk of individual neuropsychiatric sequelae, including cerebrovascular disorders [aHR = 1.49(1.09-2.13)], cognition/memory disorders [aHR = 2.13(1.55-2.93)], extrapyramidal/movement disorders [aHR = 1.98(1.33-2.94)] and anxiety disorders [aHR = 1.61(1.01-2.56)], was observed in dengue-infected individuals compared to COVID-19 cases. Elevated risks of post-acute sequelae in dengue survivors were observed when contrasted against COVID-19 survivors infected during Delta/Omicron predominance, as well as across vaccination strata.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Increased risk of post-acute cardiovascular/neuropsychiatric complications was observed in dengue survivors, when contrasted against COVID-19 survivors infected during Delta/Omicron predominance.</p><p><strong>Research in context: </strong></p>","PeriodicalId":17407,"journal":{"name":"Journal of travel medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":9.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141306239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Clara Köpke, Camilla Rothe, Andreas Zeder, Gerhard Boecken, Torsten Feldt, Christian Janke, Sabine Jordan, Micha Löbermann, Andreas Müller, Hans-Martin Orth, Luise Marie Prüfer-Krämer, Johannes Schäfer, Günther Slesak, August Stich, Sabine Bélard, Nico Thul, Sören L Becker, Sophie Schneitler
{"title":"Establishment of a national travel medicine vaccination network to assess reactogenicity of new and rarely used vaccines: a TropNet study.","authors":"Clara Köpke, Camilla Rothe, Andreas Zeder, Gerhard Boecken, Torsten Feldt, Christian Janke, Sabine Jordan, Micha Löbermann, Andreas Müller, Hans-Martin Orth, Luise Marie Prüfer-Krämer, Johannes Schäfer, Günther Slesak, August Stich, Sabine Bélard, Nico Thul, Sören L Becker, Sophie Schneitler","doi":"10.1093/jtm/taae092","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jtm/taae092","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17407,"journal":{"name":"Journal of travel medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":9.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141544982","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Towards travel therapy: addressing the health benefits of international travel.","authors":"Gerard T Flaherty, Robert Steffen, Karin Leder","doi":"10.1093/jtm/taae091","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jtm/taae091","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17407,"journal":{"name":"Journal of travel medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":9.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141498337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}