Region-Specific, Life-Threatening Diseases among International Travelers from Israel, 2004–2015

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Avni, Chen ; Stienlauf, Shmuel ; Meltzer, Eyal ; Sidi, Yechezkel ; Schwartz, Eli ; Leshem, Eyal
• 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.
• Subjects:
  Adult Female History, 21st Century Hospitalization Humans Male Middle Aged Population Surveillance Travel Travel-Related Illness Travel Medicin /history Travel Medicine

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• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 24(4):790-793.
• Pubmed ID:
  29553319
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC5875270
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Genre:
  Dispatch
• Place as Subject:
  Caribbean ; South America ; Central America ; Africa ; Asia ; Israel ; India ; Thailand ; Ethiopia
• Volume:
  24
• Issue:
  4
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:e8e0c5a16af4501d0c8d975d695681e39e9f3cb187cbad07a3d17c3f97ff4cf1
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/53064/cdc_53064_DS1.pdf
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