Victorian Infectious Diseases Service, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, Australia.
Victorian Infectious Diseases Service, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, Australia Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Victoria, Australia.
J Travel Med. 2016 Aug 5;23(6). doi: 10.1093/jtm/taw053. Print 2016 Jun.
Much of the travel medicine literature focuses on travel to 'developing' regions by travellers from 'developed' regions; however literature about travel to developed regions is scarce. This article examines presentations to a travel medicine clinic over a 17-year period with illnesses resulting from travel to developed regions. From a cohort of general presentations to the clinic of 1077 patients, 85 patients acquired infections due to travel to developed regions, with a total of 99 infectious diagnoses made. This serves to highlight the risk of infectious disease even among travel to only developed regions, and the importance of travel advice in these situations.
大部分旅行医学文献都集中在“发达”地区的旅行者前往“发展中”地区的旅行上；然而，关于前往发达地区旅行的文献却很少。本文研究了一个旅行医学诊所 17 年来的就诊情况，这些病人都是因前往发达地区旅行而患病的。在该诊所的 1077 名普通就诊者中，有 85 名因前往发达地区旅行而感染，共做出了 99 个传染病诊断。这凸显了即使是前往发达地区旅行也存在传染病风险，以及在这种情况下旅行建议的重要性。
