Avni C, Stienlauf S, Meltzer E, Sidi Y, Schwartz E, Leshem E. Region-Specific, Life-Threatening Diseases among International Travelers from Israel, 2004-2015.
Emerg Infect Dis 2019;
24:790-793. [PMID:
29553319 PMCID:
PMC5875270 DOI:
10.3201/eid2404.171542]
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Abstract
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.
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