Infections in Travellerss Flashcards
Most common cause of fatal pneumonia in NT?
Melioidosis
most common infection when travelling?
traveller’s diarrhoea
Travel medicine most common diagnosis for returned travellers?
Malaria
2 most common febrile returned traveller disease?
Dengue
Typhoid
3 most common modes of disease transmission in Travel medicine
vector borne
resp
food/water
what is second most frequent cause of illness in Travel medicine?
resp infections
Most common resp infection in travellers?
influenza
most common rep infection in older travellers?
legionnaires disease
most common vaccine preventable disease in Travel medicine?
influenza
3 geosentinel surveillance network areas high for malaria
africa
subsaharan africa
oceania
which sex gets more malaria?
males
which sex gets more dengue fever?
both around the same
Which plasmodium is fast and drug resistance?
plasmodium falciparum
Plasmodium vivax clinical feature?
can lie dormant and relapse many years later
largest group of malaria acquiring travellers?
visiting friends and relatives
more cases a clinic sees of malaria…
better the outcome
how long for fatal plasmodium falciform?
5 days
2 highest activities associated with HepB while travelling?
water sports
motorcycle
top 2 mortality in travelers?
cardiovascular
injury unintentional
who are less likely to seek pre-travel medical advice?
young males
how are high risk travellers?
immunocompromosed preg high risk locations young/old VFR
