Immunocompromised Travelers

Fungal infections in immunocompromised travelers.

Immunocompromised patients represent an increasing group of travelers, for business, tourism, and visiting friends and relatives. Those with severe cellular immunodeficiency (advanced human immunodeficiency virus infection and transplant recipients) display the highest risk of fungal infections. International travel is less risky in most other types of immunodeficiency (except those with neutro...

Response to Hepatitis A Vaccination in Immunocompromised Travelers.

BACKGROUND Hepatitis A vaccines are highly immunogenic in healthy patients, but there is uncertainty about their immunogenicity in immunocompromised patients. METHODS Our study included immunocompromised patients who received 1 or 2 hepatitis A vaccinations between January 2011 and June 2013. We assessed factors that influenced the serologic response to vaccination. We performed a literature ...

Immunocompromised Travelers: Demographic Characteristics, Travel Destinations, and Pretravel Health Care from the U.S. Global TravEpiNet Consortium

An increasing number of immunocompromised individuals are pursuing international travel, and a better understanding of their international travel patterns and pretravel health care is needed. We evaluated the clinical features, itineraries, and pretravel health care of 486 immunocompromised international travelers seen at Global TravEpiNet sites from January 2009 to June 2012. We used bivariate...

Travelers' health.

Over the last century and a half, the world's population has grown from one billion to almost six billion, and the time required to circumnavi-gate the globe has decreased from 365 days to fewer than 3. Currently, 1.4 million persons travel internationally by air every day. The speed and volume of international travel are cited by the Institute of Medicine as principal factors contributing to t...

Vaccinations of International Travelers