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  • Calling in sick: impacts of fever on intra-urban human mobility 
    Perkins, T. Alex; Paz-Soldan Parlette, Valerie Andrea; Stoddard, Steven-T.; Morrison, Amy-C.; Forshey, Brett-M.; Long, Kanya-C.; Halsey, Eric-S.; Kochel, Tadeusz-J.; Elder, John-P.; Kitron, Uriel; Scott, Thomas-W.; Vazquez-Prokopec, Gonzalo-M. (Royal Society Publishing, 2016)
    Pathogens inflict a wide variety of disease manifestations on their hosts, yet the impacts of disease on the behaviour of infected hosts are rarely studied empirically and are seldom accounted for in mathematical models ...
  • Case-Case Analysis Using 7 Years of Travelers' Diarrhea Surveillance Data: Preventive and Travel Medicine Applications in Cusco, Peru 
    Jennings, Mary Carol; Tilley, Drake H.; Ballard, Sarah-Blythe; Villanueva, Miguel; Maldonado Costa, Fernando; Lopez, Martha; Steinberg, Hannah E.; Luna, C. Giannina; Meza, Rina; Silva, Maria E.; Gilman, Robert Hugh; Simons, Mark P.; Maves, Ryan C.; Cabada, Miguel M. (American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2017)
    In Cusco, Peru, and South America in general, there is a dearth of travelers' diarrhea (TD) data concerning the clinical features associated with enteropathogen-specific infections and destination-specific risk behaviors. ...
  • Characteristics of Travel-Related Severe Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium falciparum Malaria in Individuals Hospitalized at a Tertiary Referral Center in Lima, Peru 
    Llanos-Chea, Fiorella; Martinez, Dalila; Rosas, Angel; Samalvides Cuba, Frine; Vinetz, Joseph Michael; Llanos Cuentas, Elmer Alejandro (American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2015)
    Severe Plasmodium falciparum malaria is uncommon in South America. Lima, Peru, while not endemic for malaria, is home to specialized centers for infectious diseases that admit and manage patients with severe malaria (SM), ...
  • Cysticerci-related single parenchymal brain enhancing lesions in non-endemic countries 
    Del Brutto, O.H.; Nash, T.E.; García Lescano, Héctor Hugo (Elsevier, 2012)
    Objective: Review of case reports and case series of patients with single cysticercus granulomas in non-endemic countries to determine the characteristics of this form of neurocysticercosis in these regions. Methods: MEDLINE ...
  • Cystoisospora and Cyclospora 
    Legua, Pedro; Seas Ramos, Carlos Rafael (Wolters Kluwer Health, 2013)
    Purpose of review: The present review focuses on recent epidemiological and diagnostic advances in cystoisosporiasis and cyclosporiasis. Recent findings: Continuous outbreaks of these parasites occur worldwide. Sporadic ...
  • Excessive alcohol consumption increases risk taking behaviour in travellers to Cusco, Peru 
    Cabada, M.M.; Mozo, K.; Pantenburg, B.; Gotuzzo Herencia, José Eduardo (Elsevier, 2011)
    The risks associated with alcohol intoxication are rarely discussed during pre-travel counselling. However, alcohol immoderation abroad may increase the exposure to health risks. Few studies have addressed alcohol consumption ...
  • Exercise pathophysiology in patients with chronic mountain sickness exercise in chronic mountain sickness. 
    Groepenhoff, Herman; Overbeek, Marieke J.; Mulè, Massimiliano; van der Plas, Mart; Argiento, Paola; Villafuerte, Francisco C.; Beloka, Sophia; Faoro, Vitalie; Macarlupu, Jose L.; Guenard, Herve; de Bisschop, Claire; Martinot, Jean-Benoit; Vanderpool, Rebecca; Penaloza, Dante; Naeije, Robert (Elsevier, 2012)
    Background: Chronic mountain sickness (CMS) is characterized by a combination of excessive erythrocytosis,severe hypoxemia, and pulmonary hypertension, all of which affect exercise capacity. METHODS: Thirteen patients ...
  • Imported strongyloidiasis: Epidemiology, presentations, and treatment 
    Buonfrate, D.; Angheben, A.; Gobbi, F.; Muñoz, J.; Requena-Mendez, A.; Gotuzzo Herencia, José Eduardo; Mena, M.A.; Bisoffi, Z. (Springer, 2012)
    Strongyloidiasis is extremely more frequent in immigrants than in travellers. Clinical presentations do not differ significantly between the two groups, and the most frequent picture is a chronic infection characterized ...
  • Mucocutaneous manifestations of helminth infections: Trematodes and cestodes 
    Lupi, Omar; Downing, Christopher; Lee, Michael; Bravo Puccio, Francisco Gerardo; Giglio, Patricia; Woc-Colburn, Laila; Tyring, Stephen K. (Elsevier, 2015)
    In the 21st century, despite increased international travel for vacation, work, and medical missions and immigration into the United States, there is little published in the dermatology literature regarding the cutaneous ...
  • Recent travel and tuberculosis in migrants: data from a low incidence country. 
    Schwalb Calderon, Alvaro; Kayumba, Kumvana; Houben, Rein M. G. J.; Bothamley, Graham H. (Oxford University Press, 2023)
    Tuberculosis (TB) incidence rates among migrants are higher than those in low-incidence countries. We evaluated smear-positive, pulmonary TB notifications of foreign-born individuals, comparing time since arrival and time ...
  • Tropical and travel-associated norovirus: current concepts 
    Ballard, Sarah-Blythe; Saito, Mayuko; Mirelman, Andrew J.; Bern, Caryn; Gilman, Robert Hugh (Wolters Kluwer Health, 2015)
    PURPOSE OF REVIEW: We highlight recent advances relevant to understanding norovirus infections in the tropics, both in populations living in developing settings and travelers to these regions. RECENT FINDINGS: Because of ...
  • Yellow fever outbreaks, vaccine shortages and the Hajj and Olympics: call for global vigilance 
    Elachola, Habida; Ditekemena, John; Zhuo, Jiatong; Gozzer Infante, Ernesto Eugenio; Marchesini, Paola; Rahman, Mujeeb; Sow, Samba; Kattan, Rana-F.; Memish, Ziad-A. (Elsevier, 2016)
    The identification in China of 11 non-immunised travellers from west Africa with yellow fever elevated global attention on this vaccine preventable disease that puts about 1 billion people in 46 countries at risk.1, 2, ...

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