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Review
The epidemiology of Japanese Encephalitis and risk to the traveler has changed and continues to evolve. The spread of Japanese Encephalitis virus into new environments, changes in agricultural practice and ani...
Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines 2017 3:14
Published on: 1 August 2017
Research
The Absolute cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk evaluation using multivariable CVD risk models is increasingly advocated in people with HIV, in whom existing models remain largely untested. We assessed the agre...
Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines 2017 3:12
Published on: 5 July 2017
Research
Campylobacter continues to be an important cause of diarrheal disease worldwide and a leading cause in Southeast Asia. Studies of US soldiers and marines deployed to Thailand for a 2 to 3 week field exercise p...
Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines 2017 3:13
Published on: 5 July 2017
Review
International travel to the developing world is becoming more common in elderly patients (defined here as individuals greater than 65 years old). When providing pre-travel counseling, providers must appreciate...
Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines 2017 3:10
Published on: 13 June 2017
Research
Efforts in search of lasting malaria vaccine have led to the development of transgenic rodent malaria parasites. As a result, wild type Plasmodium berghei ANKA (WTPbA) has recently been transformed to express mou...
Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines 2017 3:11
Published on: 6 June 2017
Review
Travelers’ diarrhea is a common malady afflicting up to 50% of travelers after a 2-week travel period. An appreciable percentage of these cases will become persistent or chronic. We summarized the published li...
Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines 2017 3:9
Published on: 4 May 2017
Review
The global sanitation divide is narrowing. However, in many countries in Asia and Africa, the gap between rural and urban sanitation coverage is rather widening. Moreover, there is an increase in the burden of...
Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines 2017 3:8
Published on: 26 April 2017
Commentary
Malaria poses an exceptionally complex problem for providers of travel medicine services. Perceived high risk of exposure during travel typically prompts prescribing protective antimalarial drugs. Suppressive ...
Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines 2017 3:7
Published on: 28 March 2017
Review
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) sets several challenges for the development of a preventative HIV vaccine. Predictable, protective natural immunity against HIV does not occur and so unlike most other diseas...
Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines 2017 3:6
Published on: 24 March 2017
Perspective
It has been argued that much of international medical volunteering is done for the wrong reasons, in that local people serve as a means to meet volunteers’ needs, or for the right reasons but ignorance and ill...
Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines 2017 3:5
Published on: 6 March 2017
Review
An organism’s immune response to a vaccine is dependent on a number of factors, including the site of immunization. While muscle is the most common site for vaccine administration, other sites, including the s...
Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines 2017 3:4
Published on: 17 February 2017
Review
The successful development of effective vaccines has been elusive for many of the world’s most important infectious diseases. Additionally, much of the population, such as the aged or immunocompromised, are un...
Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines 2017 3:3
Published on: 10 February 2017
Research
Salmonella has significant public health implications causing food borne and zoonotic diseases in humans. Treatment of infections due to Salmonella is becoming difficult due to emergen...
Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines 2017 3:2
Published on: 13 January 2017
Review
The prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV has resulted in reduced burden of pediatric HIV-infection, but the prevalence of maternal HIV infection remains high in sub-Saharan African countries. HIV-...
Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines 2017 3:1
Published on: 6 January 2017
Review
Pertussis incidence is rising in almost every country where acellular pertussis (aP) vaccines have been introduced, and is occurring across all age groups from infancy to adulthood. The key question is why? Wh...
Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines 2016 2:26
Published on: 12 December 2016
Review
The HIV pandemic persists globally and travelers are at risk for infection by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). While HIV-focused guidelines delineate risk stratification and mitigation strategies for pe...
Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines 2016 2:25
Published on: 28 November 2016
Research
Soil transmitted helminthes (STH) are significant health problems among school-age children. In Kenya’s coastal region, the prevalence among pre-school age children (PSAC) ranges from 27.8 to 66.7 %. Whereas s...
Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines 2016 2:24
Published on: 13 October 2016
Review
Recreational diving occurs annually in areas of the world where malaria is endemic. The safety and efficacy of antimalarials for travelers in a hyperbaric environment is unknown. Of particular concern would be...
Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines 2016 2:23
Published on: 11 October 2016
Case study
Rabies is a fatal disease, claiming the lives of around 59,000 people annually worldwide. It is considered a neglected and underreported disease leading to inadequate support from governments. Apart from dog v...
Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines 2016 2:22
Published on: 28 September 2016
Review
World Rabies Day was set up in 2007 to raise global awareness about rabies, to provide information on how to prevent the disease in at-risk communities and support advocacy for increased efforts in rabies cont...
Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines 2016 2:19
Published on: 28 September 2016
Review
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infects 130–170 million people worldwide. Recently, direct-acting antivirals have been shown to eradicate HCV infection in 90–95 % of non-cirrhotic patients depending on genotype, treat...
Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines 2016 2:21
Published on: 27 September 2016
Short Report
To provide a miniature review of recent literature surrounding a brief history of syphilis, to discuss the recently increasing incidence of syphilis, to discuss recent United State Preventative Service Task Fo...
Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines 2016 2:20
Published on: 26 September 2016
Research
The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection usually infects persons in the reproductive age group (15–49 years), but elderly people are also susceptible. Many people in sub-Saharan Africa including Ghana ...
Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines 2016 2:18
Published on: 2 September 2016
Research
Giardia lamblia is a common parasitic cause of infectious gastroenteritis in the United States and the world and may be linked to an increased risk of chronic gastrointestinal (GI) dis...
Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines 2016 2:17
Published on: 30 August 2016
Research
Though the burden of malaria is declining, challenges in control continue globally, regionally and nationally as the transmission of malaria is dynamic and determinants differ by place and time, and across pop...
Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines 2016 2:16
Published on: 30 August 2016
