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  1. Food handlers play a significant role in the transmission of foodborne infections. Salmonella and Shigella are the most common foodborne pathogens and their infections are a major public health problem globally. ...

    Authors: Haftom Legese, Tsega Kahsay, Aderajew Gebrewahd, Brhane Berhe, Berhane Fseha, Senait Tadesse, Guesh Gebremariam, Hadush Negash, Fitsum Mardu, Kebede Tesfay and Gebre Adhanom

    Citation: Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines 2020 6:19

    Content type: Research

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  2. In Ethiopia, malaria is a serious public health concern and has great impact on socio-economy. The trend analysis of malaria data from health facilities is useful for understanding its transmission dynamics an...

    Authors: Shemsia Alkadir, Tegenu Gelana and Araya Gebresilassie

    Citation: Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines 2020 6:18

    Content type: Research

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  3. To investigate the association between parameters indicating immunity from BCG at country level (presence of BCG vaccination policy, BCG coverage, age-specific incidence of tuberculosis (TB)) and the morbidity...

    Authors: Dakshitha Wickramasinghe, Nilanka Wickramasinghe, Sohan Anjana Kamburugamuwa, Carukshi Arambepola and Dharmabandhu N. Samarasekera

    Citation: Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines 2020 6:17

    Content type: Research

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  4. A high burden of severe disease and death from the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been consistently observed in older patients, especially those with pre-existing medical co-morbidities. The global pa...

    Authors: Gerard Thomas Flaherty, Paul Hession, Chee Hwui Liew, Bryan Chang Wei Lim, Tan Kok Leong, Victor Lim and Lokman Hakim Sulaiman

    Citation: Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines 2020 6:16

    Content type: Review

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  5. Access to safe drinking water is one of the basic human rights and is critical to health. However, much of the world’s population lacks access to adequate and safe water. Approximately 884,000, 000 people in t...

    Authors: Aderajew Gebrewahd, Gebre Adhanom, Gebremedhin Gebremichail, Tsega Kahsay, Brhane Berhe, Zinabu Asfaw, Senait Tadesse, Haftay Gebremedhin, Hadush Negash, Brhane Tesfanchal, Hagos Haileselasie and Haftom Legese Weldetinsaa

    Citation: Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines 2020 6:15

    Content type: Research

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  6. Tuberculosis is an infectious disease usually caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria. The global emergence of mono- or multidrug-resistant tuberculosis and extensively drug-resistant forms of tuberculosis ...

    Authors: Getachew Kahsu Abay and Bahlbi Hailay Abraha

    Citation: Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines 2020 6:14

    Content type: Research

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  7. In a year-long pneumonia etiology study conducted June 2017 to May 2018 in Sarawak, Malaysia, 599 patients’ nasopharyngeal swab specimens were studied with real-time polymerase chain reaction (rPCR)/ reverse-t...

    Authors: Jane K. Fieldhouse, Emily S. Bailey, Teck-Hock Toh, King-Ching Hii, Kerry A. Mallinson, Jakie Ting, John A. Lednicky, Antoinette Berita, Tham Thi Nguyen, Diego Galan, Son T. Than, See-Chang Wong, Toh-Mee Wong, Patrick J. Blair and Gregory C. Gray

    Citation: Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines 2020 6:13

    Content type: Research

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  8. Tuberculosis (TB) remains the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in peoples living with HIV and at least 25% of deaths are attributed to TB. Many countries implement the Universal Test and Treat (UTT) pr...

    Authors: Tadele Girum, Fedila Yasin, Samuel Dessu, Bereket Zeleke and Mulugeta Geremew

    Citation: Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines 2020 6:12

    Content type: Research

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  9. Isoniazid prophylaxis therapy is a significant public health intervention to prevent the progression of latent tuberculosis to active tuberculosis disease among people living with HIV. Those with HIV are at hi...

    Authors: Haftom Legese, Hagos Degefa, Aderajew Gebrewahd and Haftay Gebremedhin

    Citation: Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines 2020 6:11

    Content type: Research

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  10. A tetravalent DNA vaccine for Dengue virus is under development but has not yet achieved optimal immunogenicity. Salivary glands vaccination has been reported efficacious in rodents and dogs. We report on a pi...

    Authors: Guy El Helou, Todd A. Ponzio, Joseph F. Goodman, Maria Blevins, David L. Caudell, Kanakatte S. Raviprakash, Daniel Ewing, Maya Williams, Kevin R. Porter and John W. Sanders

    Citation: Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines 2020 6:10

    Content type: Short report

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  11. Increasing numbers of older individuals opt to spend extended time abroad each year for lifestyle, health, and financial reasons. This practice is known as international retirement migration, and it is particu...

    Authors: John Pickering, Valorie A. Crooks, Jeremy Snyder and Trudie Milner

    Citation: Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines 2020 6:9

    Content type: Research

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  12. To document the temperature integrity at the vaccine storage devices at various levels in three states of India.

    Authors: Manoja Kumar Das, Narendra Kumar Arora, Thomas Mathew, Bhadresh Vyas, Salam Kabita Devi and Abhishek Yadav

    Citation: Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines 2020 6:8

    Content type: Research

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  13. Effective pre-travel consultations cannot be achieved only through individual risk assessment and advice on vaccinations and chemoprophylaxis. Travelers’ perceptions of the risk of health problems represent an...

    Authors: Thanyapat Hiranrusme, Watcharapong Piyaphanee, Jaranit Kaewkungwal, Udomsak Silachamroon, Wattana Leowattana, Lapakorn Chatapat and Wasin Matsee

    Citation: Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines 2020 6:7

    Content type: Research

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  14. Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) has reached pandemic proportions. Most of the drugs that are being tried for the treatment have not been evaluated in any randomized controlled trials. The purpose of this rev...

    Authors: Rohit Kumar, Nitin Gupta, Parul Kodan, Ankit Mittal, Manish Soneja and Naveet Wig

    Citation: Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines 2020 6:6

    Content type: Review

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  15. In 2018, our team collected aerosols samples from five poultry farms in Malaysia. Influenza D virus was detected in 14% of samples. One sample had an 86.3% identity score similar to NCBI accession number MH785...

    Authors: Emily S. Bailey, Jane K. Fieldhouse, Natalie A. Alarja, David D. Chen, Maria E. Kovalik, Juliana N. Zemke, Jessica Y. Choi, Laura K. Borkenhagen, Teck-Hock Toh, Jeffrey Soon Yit Lee, Kuek-Sen Chong and Gregory C. Gray

    Citation: Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines 2020 6:5

    Content type: Short report

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  16. Laboratory services are crucial parts of the health system having a great contribution to disease prevention and management. The importance of accurate and reliable laboratory test results is less recognized i...

    Authors: Teha Shumbej, Sofia Menu, Teklemichael Gebru, Tadele Girum, Fitsum Bekele, Absra Solomon, Dereje Mesfin and Abdulewhab Jemal

    Citation: Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines 2020 6:4

    Content type: Research

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  17. There were 10 million new cases of tuberculosis (TB) in 2017. To eliminate TB, it is necessary to diagnose active TB and latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI). Diagnosis of paucibacillary disease and in extrapu...

    Authors: Kiran Iqbal Masood, Bushra Jamil, Alnoor Akber, Maheen Hassan, Muniba Islam and Zahra Hasan

    Citation: Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines 2020 6:3

    Content type: Research

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  18. Intoxication syndromes may be travel acquired, and are related to intentional or accidental inhalational or percutaneous exposures or ingestions. Due to their myriad clinical presentations, initial differentia...

    Authors: Taylor Kain, Jordan Weinstein, Aaron Thompson and Andrea K. Boggild

    Citation: Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines 2020 6:2

    Content type: Review

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  21. Entamoeba moshkovskii is a member of the Entamoeba complex and a colonizer of the human gut. We used nested polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to differentiate Entamoeba species in stool samples that had previously ...

    Authors: Cecilia Kyany’a, Fredrick Eyase, Elizabeth Odundo, Erick Kipkirui, Nancy Kipkemoi, Ronald Kirera, Cliff Philip, Janet Ndonye, Mary Kirui, Abigael Ombogo, Margaret Koech, Wallace Bulimo and Christine E. Hulseberg

    Citation: Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines 2019 5:23

    Content type: Short report

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  22. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) remains a leading cause of global morbidity with the highest burden in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). For reasons that are incompletely understood, the likelihood of HIV transmiss...

    Authors: Sergey Yegorov, Vineet Joag, Ronald M. Galiwango, Sara V. Good, Brenda Okech and Rupert Kaul

    Citation: Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines 2019 5:22

    Content type: Review

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  23. Arboviruses are (re-) emerging viruses that cause significant morbidity globally. Clinical manifestations usually consist of a non-specific febrile illness that may be accompanied by rash, arthralgia and arthr...

    Authors: John T. Kayiwa, Annet M. Nankya, Irene Ataliba, Charity A. Nassuna, Isaac E. Omara, Jeffrey W. Koehler, John M. Dye, Eric C. Mossel and Julius J. Lutwama

    Citation: Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines 2019 5:21

    Content type: Case report

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  25. Diarrheal diseases are responsible for high level of morbidity and mortality, particularly in children below 5 years. Salmonella and Shigella spp. are pathogenic microbes responsible for the major diarrheal assoc...

    Authors: Addisu Assefa and Mengistu Girma

    Citation: Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines 2019 5:19

    Content type: Research

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  26. Travelling seeking healthcare is becoming common phenomenon. There is limited research to understand factors associated with destinations of choice. Each year the Dubai Health Authority (DHA) spends millions o...

    Authors: Wafa K. Alnakhi, Jodi B. Segal, Kevin D. Frick, Saifuddin Ahmed and Laura Morlock

    Citation: Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines 2019 5:18

    Content type: Research

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  28. Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is a protozoal disease that may be aggravated by immunosuppression. In recent years, a growing number of patients with chronic diseases use biological treatment. When such immunosup...

    Authors: Thomas Schwartz, Mogens Jensenius, Bjørn Blomberg, Cathrine Fladeby, Arild Mæland and Frank O. Pettersen

    Citation: Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines 2019 5:16

    Content type: Case study

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  29. Malaria is a serious public concern in Ethiopia, 75% of the land and 60% of the population are exposed to the disease. The disease has been consistently reported as one of the top three leading causes of outpa...

    Authors: Brhane Berhe, Fitsum Mardu, Haftom Legese and Hadush Negash

    Citation: Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines 2019 5:15

    Content type: Research

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  30. Diarrhea is among the main causes of pediatric mortality in the Philippines. Probiotics have been shown to be beneficial in the management of acute diarrhea. Accordingly, the aim of this population-based study...

    Authors: Jo-Anne A. de Castro, Mary Jean Villa-Real Guno and Marcos O. Perez

    Citation: Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines 2019 5:14

    Content type: Research

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  31. Anaemia is a low blood haemoglobin concentration and has been shown to be a public health problem affecting both developing and developed countries. Pregnant women are the most vulnerable groups to anaemia due...

    Authors: Tadesse Hailu, Simachew Kassa, Bayeh Abera, Wondemagegn Mulu and Ashenafi Genanew

    Citation: Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines 2019 5:13

    Content type: Research

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  32. Diarrhea is a serious concern worldwide, especially in developing countries. Rotavirus is implicated in approximately 400,000 infant deaths annually. It is highly contagious elevating the risk of outbreaks esp...

    Authors: Cliff Odhiambo Philip, Margaret Koech, Nancy Kipkemoi, Ronald Kirera, Janet Ndonye, Abigael Ombogo, Mary Kirui, Erick Kipkirui, Brook Danboise, Christine Hulseberg, Stacey Bateman, Alexander Flynn, Brett Swierczewski, Esther Magiri and Elizabeth Odundo

    Citation: Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines 2019 5:12

    Content type: Research

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  33. Globally malaria remains one of the high burden diseases particularly in developing countries. Ethiopia is one of the sub-Saharan countries highly endemic to malaria. Although, recently the burden of malaria w...

    Authors: Tadele Girum, Teha Shumbej and Misgun Shewangizaw

    Citation: Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines 2019 5:11

    Content type: Research

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  34. Each year, the Dubai Health Authority (DHA) spends millions of dollars to cover the costs of United Arab Emirates (UAE) nationals seeking healthcare overseas. Patients may travel overseas to seek an array of t...

    Authors: Wafa K. Alnakhi, Jodi B. Segal, Kevin D. Frick, Altijani Hussin, Saifuddin Ahmed and Laura Morlock

    Citation: Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines 2019 5:10

    Content type: Research

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  35. Traveler’s diarrhea (TD) is a common health problem among visitors from developed to developing countries. Although global and regional estimates of pathogen distribution are available, the etiology of diarrhe...

    Authors: Ladaporn Bodhidatta, Sinn Anuras, Siriporn Sornsakrin, Umaporn Suksawad, Oralak Serichantalergs, Apichai Srijan, Orntipa Sethabutr and Carl J. Mason

    Citation: Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines 2019 5:9

    Content type: Research

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  36. Helminth infections are among the major public health problems in developing countries. Considerable efforts have been made towards the control of morbidity caused by infection with helminths in Ethiopia. The ...

    Authors: Teha Shumbej and Tadele Girum

    Citation: Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines 2019 5:8

    Content type: Research

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  37. Diarrhea caused by Shigella species remains a major public health threat especially in the pediatric population. A regular surveillance system needs to be in place, in order to explore the burden, antimicrobial r...

    Authors: Amare Alemu, Mekuanint Geta, Selomon Taye, Setegn Eshetie and Tigist Engda

    Citation: Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines 2019 5:7

    Content type: Research

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  38. Eosinophilic meningitis (EOM) is a rare condition that is caused by various communicable and non-communicable factors. The rat-lungworm Angiostrongylus cantonensis, which is associated with consumption of raw or ...

    Authors: Tobias Brummaier, Sonja Bertschy, Kornelius Arn, Thomas Treumann, Marie-Therese Ruf, Beatrice Nickel, Daniel H. Paris, Andreas Neumayr and Johannes Blum

    Citation: Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines 2019 5:6

    Content type: Case Report

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  39. The year 2018 heralded many new developments in the field of tropical medicine, including licensure of novel drugs for novel indications, licensure of existing drugs for existing indications but in novel setti...

    Authors: Leila Makhani, Aisha Khatib, Antoine Corbeil, Ruwandi Kariyawasam, Hira Raheel, Shareese Clarke, Priyanka Challa, Emma Hagopian, Sumontra Chakrabarti, Kevin L. Schwartz and Andrea K. Boggild

    Citation: Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines 2019 5:5

    Content type: Review

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  40. Thousands of medical students undertake international medical electives each year. These students face potentially substantial health and safety risks as well as educational and ethical challenges and therefor...

    Authors: D. Ashley Watson, Nicholas Cooling and Ian J. Woolley

    Citation: Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines 2019 5:4

    Content type: Review

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  41. Strongyloidiasis is a common infection in Canadian migrants that can cause life-threatening hyperinfection in immunosuppressed hosts. We designed and implemented a safety tool to guide management of patients w...

    Authors: Sabrina H. M. Yeung, Omar Mourad, Michael Klowak, Adrienne J. Showler, Stefanie Klowak and Andrea K. Boggild

    Citation: Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines 2019 5:3

    Content type: Research

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  42. Gastrointestinal (GI) illness is the most commonly reported health concern among Peace Corps Volunteers (PCVs) serving in Guatemala. This project identified water types and treatment and storage practices used...

    Authors: Daniel E. Murphy, Scott A. Poe, Jennifer L. Murphy, Rennie W. Ferguson, Susan J. Henderson and Paul Jung

    Citation: Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines 2019 5:2

    Content type: Research

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  43. Travelers’ diarrhea remains a prevalent illness impacting individuals visiting developing countries, however most studies have focused on this disease in the context of short term travel. This study aims to de...

    Authors: Scott Olson, Alexis Hall, Mark S. Riddle and Chad K. Porter

    Citation: Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines 2019 5:1

    Content type: Research

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  44. International travelers are at high risk of acquiring travelers’ diarrhea. Pre-travel consultation has been associated with lower rates of malaria, hepatitis, and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections....

    Authors: Eugene M. Tan, Jennifer L. St. Sauver and Irene G. Sia

    Citation: Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines 2018 4:16

    Content type: Research

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  45. Antimicrobial resistance is a global concern of increasing significance. Multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is spreading worldwide. It is important to monitor trends of antimycobacterial resistance. Thi...

    Authors: Shiferaw Bekele, Yohannes Derese, Elena Hailu, Adane Mihret, Kifle Dagne, Lawrence Yamuah, Tsegaye Hailu, Samuel Ayele, Demissew Beyene, Stefan Berg and Abraham Aseffa

    Citation: Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines 2018 4:15

    Content type: Research

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  46. As there is rapid increase in international travel to tropical and subtropical countries, there will likely be more people exposed to diarrheal pathogens in these moderate to high risk areas and subsequent inc...

    Authors: Ajib Diptyanusa, Thundon Ngamprasertchai and Watcharapong Piyaphanee

    Citation: Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines 2018 4:14

    Content type: Review

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  47. Salmonella species are among the most common food borne pathogens worldwide and their infection is one of the major global public health problems. During the last decade, multidrug resistant Salmonella species ha...

    Authors: Samson Takele, Kifle Woldemichael, Mulatu Gashaw, Haimanot Tassew, Moti Yohannes and Alemseged Abdissa

    Citation: Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines 2018 4:13

    Content type: Research

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  48. Melioidosis is an infection caused by a facultative intracellular Gram-negative bacterium, Burkholderia pseudomallei. It can present as septicemia, localized infection with/without septicemia, asymptomatic infect...

    Authors: A. K. T. M. Karunarathna, S. A. Mendis, W. P. D. P. Perera, Geethika Patabendige, A. S. Pallewatte and Aruna Kulatunga

    Citation: Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines 2018 4:12

    Content type: Case report

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  49. Recognizing that crowded, high-traffic airports and airplanes have been implicated in respiratory disease transmission, we partnered with administrators of Raleigh Durham International Airport (RDU) in conduct...

    Authors: Emily S. Bailey, Jessica Y. Choi, Juliana Zemke, Myagmarsukh Yondon and Gregory C. Gray

    Citation: Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines 2018 4:11

    Content type: Short report

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  50. Scrub typhus is a neglected vector-borne zoonosis causing life-threatening illnesses, endemic in the Asian-Pacific region and, as recently discovered, in southern Chile. Scrub typhus is rarely reported in trav...

    Authors: Thomas Weitzel, Mabel Aylwin, Constanza Martínez-Valdebenito, Ju Jiang, Jose Manuel Munita, Luis Thompson, Katia Abarca and Allen L. Richards

    Citation: Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines 2018 4:10

    Content type: Case report

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