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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; Emporiatrics; Medicine, Emporiatric; Emporiatric Medicine |
Sunday, November 08, 2009
Introduction and transmission of 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1) Virus--Kenya, June-July 2009.
21 Oct 2009 
In April 2009, in the United States, the first cases of 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1) virus infection were reported. On June 11, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared an influenza pandemic because of widespread transmission worldwide. As ... Read more...
Breaching the dispersal barrier to invasion: quantification and management.
29 Sep 2009 Globalization has resulted in unprecedented movements of people, goods, and alien species across the planet. Although the impacts of biological invasions are widely appreciated, a bias exists in research effort to post-dispersal processes because of ... Read more...
Severe imported malaria in adults: retrospective study of 20 cases.
29 Sep 2009 Severe imported malaria is an important problem in many countries in which this disease is not endemic. This retrospective study describes the characteristics of 20 adults with severe imported malaria admitted to our intensive care unit from 1991 ... Read more...
Latest indexed articles for 'Travel'
These are the very latest articles for this heading:
- USA looks set to repeal HIV travel ban.
22 Oct 2009 - Introduction and transmission of 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1) Virus--Kenya, June-July 2009. 21 Oct 2009
- Clinical practice. Bacterial diarrhea. 13 Oct 2009
- Surgical tourism: some US patients travel abroad for less costly surgery. 12 Oct 2009
- Breaching the dispersal barrier to invasion: quantification and management. 29 Sep 2009
- Building nonhospital-based platforms for ambulatory orthognathic surgery: facility, anesthesia, and price considerations. 29 Sep 2009
- Severe imported malaria in adults: retrospective study of 20 cases. 29 Sep 2009
- Screening for influenza infection in international airline travelers. 29 Sep 2009
- Imported and autochthonous hepatitis E virus strains in Spain. 29 Sep 2009
- Small islands and pandemic influenza: potential benefits and limitations of travel volume reduction as a border control measure. 27 Sep 2009
- Updated recommendation from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) for revaccination of persons at prolonged increased risk for meningococcal disease. 23 Sep 2009
- [Weight loss] 21 Sep 2009
- [Hungarians fallen ill abroad: questions of repatriation] 18 Sep 2009
- Updated recommendations from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) for use of hepatitis A vaccine in close contacts of newly arriving international adoptees. 16 Sep 2009
- Diagnostic performance of rapid diagnostic tests versus blood smears for malaria in US clinical practice. 13 Sep 2009
- Reporting patterns and characteristics of tuberculosis among international travelers, United States, June 2006 to May 2008. 13 Sep 2009
- Immunization programs for infants, children, adolescents, and adults: clinical practice guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. 13 Sep 2009
- The pretravel consultation. 13 Sep 2009
- Cutaneous myiasis due to Dermatobia hominis (the human botfly) in a New Zealand traveller returned from South America. 9 Sep 2009
- [Working conditions overseas: "German physicians assume unnecessary risks" (interview by Dr. med. Thomas Meissner)] 8 Sep 2009
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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; Emporiatrics; Medicine, Emporiatric; Emporiatric Medicine;
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)