Citation
Jensenius, Mogens, et al. "Acute and Potentially Life-threatening Tropical Diseases in Western Travelers--a GeoSentinel Multicenter Study, 1996-2011." The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, vol. 88, no. 2, 2013, pp. 397-404.
Jensenius M, Han PV, Schlagenhauf P, et al. Acute and potentially life-threatening tropical diseases in western travelers--a GeoSentinel multicenter study, 1996-2011. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2013;88(2):397-404.
Jensenius, M., Han, P. V., Schlagenhauf, P., Schwartz, E., Parola, P., Castelli, F., von Sonnenburg, F., Loutan, L., Leder, K., & Freedman, D. O. (2013). Acute and potentially life-threatening tropical diseases in western travelers--a GeoSentinel multicenter study, 1996-2011. The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 88(2), 397-404. https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.12-0551
Jensenius M, et al. Acute and Potentially Life-threatening Tropical Diseases in Western Travelers--a GeoSentinel Multicenter Study, 1996-2011. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2013;88(2):397-404. PubMed PMID: 23324216.
TY - JOUR
T1 - Acute and potentially life-threatening tropical diseases in western travelers--a GeoSentinel multicenter study, 1996-2011.
AU - Jensenius,Mogens,
AU - Han,Pauline V,
AU - Schlagenhauf,Patricia,
AU - Schwartz,Eli,
AU - Parola,Philippe,
AU - Castelli,Francesco,
AU - von Sonnenburg,Frank,
AU - Loutan,Louis,
AU - Leder,Karin,
AU - Freedman,David O,
AU - ,,
Y1 - 2013/01/16/
PY - 2013/1/18/entrez
PY - 2013/1/18/pubmed
PY - 2013/4/2/medline
SP - 397
EP - 404
JF - The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene
JO - Am J Trop Med Hyg
VL - 88
IS - 2
N2 - We performed a descriptive analysis of acute and potentially life-threatening tropical diseases among 82,825 ill western travelers reported to GeoSentinel from June of 1996 to August of 2011. We identified 3,655 patients (4.4%) with a total of 3,666 diagnoses representing 13 diseases, including falciparum malaria (76.9%), enteric fever (18.1%), and leptospirosis (2.4%). Ninety-one percent of the patients had fever; the median time from travel to presentation was 16 days. Thirteen (0.4%) patients died: 10 with falciparum malaria, 2 with melioidosis, and 1 with severe dengue. Falciparum malaria was mainly acquired in West Africa, and enteric fever was largely contracted on the Indian subcontinent; leptospirosis, scrub typhus, and murine typhus were principally acquired in Southeast Asia. Western physicians seeing febrile and recently returned travelers from the tropics need to consider a wide profile of potentially life-threatening tropical illnesses, with a specific focus on the most likely diseases described in our large case series.
SN - 1476-1645
UR - https://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/23324216/full_citation
L2 - https://ajtmh.org/doi/10.4269/ajtmh.12-0551
DB - PRIME
DP - Unbound Medicine
ER -