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Executive summary of imported infectious diseases after returning from foreign travel: Consensus document of the Spanish Society for Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology (SEIMC).

ABSTRACT: In a global world, knowledge of imported infectious diseases is essential in daily practice, both for the microbiologist-parasitologist and the clinician who diagnoses and treats infectious diseases in returned travelers. Tropical and subtropical countries where there is a greater risk of contracting an infectious disease are among the most frequently visited tourist destinations. The SEIMC considers it appropriate to produce a consensus document that will be useful to primary care physicians as well as specialists in internal medicine, infectious diseases and tropical medicine who help treat travelers returning from tropical and sub-tropical areas with infections. Preventive aspects of infectious diseases and infections imported by immigrants are explicitly excluded here, since they have been dealt with in other SEIMC documents. Various types of professionals (clinicians, microbiologists, and parasitologists) have helped produce this consensus document by evaluating the available evidence-based data in order to propose a series of key facts about individual aspects of the topic. The first section of the document is a summary of some of the general aspects concerning the general assessment of travelers who return home with potential infections. The main second section contains the key facts (causative agents, diagnostic procedures and therapeutic measures) associated with the major infectious syndromes affecting returned travelers [gastrointestinal syndrome (acute or persistent diarrhea); febrile syndrome with no obvious source of infection; localized cutaneous lesions; and respiratory infections]. Finally, the characteristics of special traveler subtypes, such as pregnant women and immunocompromised travelers, are described.

SUBMITTER: Perez-Arellano JL

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7127768 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Executive summary of imported infectious diseases after returning from foreign travel: Consensus document of the Spanish Society for Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology (SEIMC).

Pérez-Arellano José Luis JL Górgolas-Hernández-Mora Miguel M Salvador Fernando F Carranza-Rodríguez Cristina C Ramírez-Olivencia Germán G Martín-Echeverría Esteban E Rodríguez-Guardado Azucena A Norman Francesca F Velasco-Tirado Virginia V Zubero-Sulibarría Zuriñe Z Rojo-Marcos Gerardo G Muñoz-Gutierrez José J Ramos-Rincón José Manuel JM Sánchez-Seco-Fariñas M Paz MP Velasco-Arribas María M Belhassen-García Moncef M Lago-Nuñez Mar M Cañas García-Otero Elías E López-Vélez Rogelio R

Enfermedades infecciosas y microbiologia clinica (English ed.) 20170407 3

In a global world, knowledge of imported infectious diseases is essential in daily practice, both for the microbiologist-parasitologist and the clinician who diagnoses and treats infectious diseases in returned travelers. Tropical and subtropical countries where there is a greater risk of contracting an infectious disease are among the most frequently visited tourist destinations. The SEIMC considers it appropriate to produce a consensus document that will be useful to primary care physicians as ...[more]

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Executive summary of imported infectious diseases after returning from foreign travel: Consensus document of the Spanish Society for Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology (SEIMC).

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Executive summary of imported infectious diseases after returning from foreign travel: Consensus document of the Spanish Society for Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology (SEIMC).

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