Prakt. lékáren. 2011; 7(3): 108-110
Travel medicine: infections during travel
- Očkování a cestovní medicína, I. poliklinika, Příbram
Travel medicine is a new speciality concerned with the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases that occur in association with travel.
The aim is to protect travellers from disease and injury. Injuries account for up to 60 % of health complications in travellers followed by
infectious diseases and psychosocial problems. The most common infectious complications include traveller’s diarrhoea, malaria, acute
respiratory infections, viral hepatitis A, dengue fever, viral hepatitis B and gonorrhoea. Each traveller should contact a specialized vaccination
and travel medicine centre at least two months in advance and obtain information about current epidemiological risks in the
destination country. In the centre, an individual vaccination schedule will be created, antimalarial prophylaxis determined and the
content of a travel first-aid kit recommended.
Keywords: travel medicine, prevention, vaccination, malaria immunization, travel first-aid kit
Published: June 1, 2011 Show citation
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