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Travel - Research News and Information
Monday, September 08, 2008
Definition of 'Travel'Aspects of health and disease related to travel. It includes the physiologic and psychologic beneficial or adverse effects of travel in general or with regard to specific diseases. It includes also emporiatrics, the specialty devoted to the medical aspects of travel. It excludes study tours. Common names: Travel; Travels; Medicine, Emporiatric; Emporiatric Medicine; Emporiatrics |
15 Aug 2008
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the epidemiology and clinical spectrum of fever in HIV-infected returning travelers and migrants. METHODS: From April 2000 to December 2006, we explored prospectively, at our referral... Read more...
Potential effect of excluding variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease on the eye donor pool in Australia.
Aug 2008
PURPOSE: To quantitate the likely effect on the available eye donor pool by excluding potential donors who may have had exposure to variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease by virtue of spending time in countries where bovine... Read more...
Epidemiology of cryptosporidiosis in North American travelers to Mexico.
Aug 2008
We studied 1,179 North American travelers who visited Mexico from 2005 to 2007. Travelers' diarrhea (TD) was reported by 521 (44%) participants. Among subjects with TD, 218 cases were examined for cryptosporidiosis by... Read more...
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Latest indexed articles for 'Travel'
These are the very latest articles for this heading:
- Fever after a stay in the tropics: clinical spectrum and outcome in HIV-infected travelers and migrants.
15 Aug 2008 - Clinical practice. Malaria prevention in short-term travelers.
7 Aug 2008 - A souvenir from Ghana.
Aug 2008 - Potential effect of excluding variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease on the eye donor pool in Australia.
Aug 2008 - Epidemiology of cryptosporidiosis in North American travelers to Mexico.
Aug 2008 - Extensible GUIs for remote application control on mobile devices.
31 Jul 2008 - Drugs for traveler's diarrhea.
28 Jul 2008 - Casting parallels to overseas shores.
23 Jul 2008 - Mobile graphics.
18 Jul 2008 - Artesunate for malaria.
17 Jul 2008 - Medical tourism in India: winners and losers.
17 Jul 2008 - Caterpillar-induced bleeding syndrome in a returning traveller.
15 Jul 2008 - Organ trafficking and transplant tourism and commercialism: the Declaration of Istanbul.
5 Jul 2008 - What is your call?: pruritic, serpiginous eruption in a returning traveller.
Jul 2008 - Jet lag: life in the fast (and feast) lane.
Jul 2008 - Health risks in travelers to China: the GeoSentinel experience and implications for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Jul 2008 - Acute respiratory infections in a recently arrived traveler to your part of the world.
Jul 2008 - Japanese encephalitis vaccine in travelers.
Jul 2008 - Influenza vaccine: a travelers' vaccine?
Jul 2008 - Hepatitis B vaccination in travelers.
Jul 2008
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Technical information about 'Travel'
Definition: Aspects of health and disease related to travel. It includes the physiologic and psychologic beneficial or adverse effects of travel in general or with regard to specific diseases. It includes also emporiatrics, the specialty devoted to the medical aspects of travel. It excludes study tours.
Descriptor UI: D014195
Alternative terms: Travel; Travels; Medicine, Emporiatric; Emporiatric Medicine; Emporiatrics;
Related Mesh Headings: Jet Lag Syndrome;
Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; psychology; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics;
Tree Number: I03.883;
Technical Notes: med, physiol, social, psychol aspects of travel & tourism; for articles on "the hazards of travel" or "the spread of disease by travel"; note X ref EMPORIATRICS for the field of travel medicine or medicine for travelers but do not coord with MEDICINE; not for study tours to various countries: index object of study + geog, as HOSPITALS + GHANA; PEDIATRICS + CHINA; consider also MEDICAL MISSIONS, OFFICIAL or MISSIONS AND MISSIONARIES; jet lag: index JET LAG SYNDROME; traveler's diarrhea: coord IM with DIARRHEA (IM)