Fever after a stay in the tropics: Clinical spectrum and outcome in HIV-infected travelers and migrants

Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 547-552

  Bottieau, Emmanuel ^a   Florence, Eric ^a   Clerinx, Jan ^a   Vlieghe, Erika ^a,b   Vekemans, Marc ^a   Moerman, Filip ^a   Lynen, Lut ^a   Colebunders, Robert ^a,b   Van Gompel, Alfons ^a   Van Den Ende, Jef ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^b ANTWERP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Fever; HIV; Migrants; Travelers; Tropics

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIASIS; FEMALE; FEVER; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIGRATION; MORBIDITY; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT REFERRAL; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PYREXIA IDIOPATHICA; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; TRAVEL; TROPICS; TUBERCULOSIS; URETHRITIS; UTERINE CERVICITIS; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; TROPIC CLIMATE; VIROLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEVER; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; TRAVEL; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 50949115861     PISSN: 15254135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/QAI.0b013e31817bebc5     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Gerbase AC, Rowley JT, Heymann DH, et al. Global prevalence and incidence estimates of selected curable STDs. Sex Transm Infect. 1998; 74(Suppl 1):S12-S16.
2. Hill DR, Ericsson CD, Pearson RD, et al. The practice of travel medicine: guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Clin Infect Dis. 2006;43:1499-539.
3. Bottieau E, Clerinx J, Schrooten W, et al. Etiology and outcome of fever after a stay in the tropics. Arch Intern Med. 2006;166:1642-1648.
4. Freedman DO, Weld LH, Kozarsky PE, et al. Spectrum of disease and relation to place of exposure among ill returned travelers. N Engl J Med. 2006;354:119-130.
5. Castelli F, Patroni A. The human immunodeficiency virus-infected traveler. Clin Infect Dis. 2000;31:1403-1408.
6. Matteelli A, Carosi G. Sexually transmitted diseases in travelers. Clin Infect Dis. 2001;32:1063-1067.
7. Steffen R, deBernardis C, Banos A. Travel epidemiology-a global perspective. Int J Antimicrob Agents. 2003;21:89-95.
8. Branson BM, Handsfield HH, Lampe MA, et al. Revised recommendations for HIV testing of adults, adolescents, and pregnant women in health-care settings. MMWR Recomm Rep. 2006;55:1-17.
9. Ward BJ, Plourde P. Travel and sexually transmitted infections. J Travel Med. 2006;13:300-317.
10. Lifson AR, Rybicki SL. Routine opt-out HIV testing. Lancet. 2007;369: 539-540.
11. Palacios R, Jimenez-Onate F, Aguilar M, et al. Impact of syphilis infection on HIV viral load and CD4 cell counts in HIV-infected patients. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2007;44:356-359.
12. Kemper CA, Linett A, Kane C, et al. Frequency of travel of adults infected with HIV. J Travel Med. 1995;2:85-88.
13. Kemper CA, Linett A, Kane C, et al. Travels with HIV: the compliance and health of HIV-infected adults who travel. Int J STD AIDS. 1997;8: 44-49.
14. Simons FM, Cobelens FG, Danner SA. Common health problems in HIV-infected travelers to the (sub)tropics. J Travel Med. 1999;6:71-75.
15. Salit IE, Sano M, Boggild AK, et al. Travel patterns and risk behaviour of HIV-positive people travelling internationally. CMAJ. 2005;172:884-888.
16. Hill DR. Health problems in a large cohort of Americans traveling to developing countries. J Travel Med. 2000;7:259-266.
17. Chadwick DR, Geretti AM. Immunization of the HIV infected traveller. AIDS. 2007;21:787-794.
18. Spacek LA, Quinn TC. International travel: recommendations for the HIV-infected patient. Curr Infect Dis Rep. 2004;6:399-403.
19. Khoo S, Back D, Winstanley P. The potential for interactions between antimalarial and antiretroviral drugs. AIDS. 2005;19:995-1005.
20. Thera MA, Sehdev PS, Coulibaly D, et al. Impact of trimethoprim- sulfamethoxazole prophylaxis on falciparum malaria infection and disease. J Infect Dis. 2005;192:1823-1829.
21. Badri M, Ehrlich R, Wood R, et al. Association between tuberculosis and HIV disease progression in a high tuberculosis prevalence area. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2001;5:225-232.
22. Jelinek T, Muhlberger N. Surveillance of imported diseases as a window to travel health risks. Infect Dis Clin North Am. 2005;19:1-13.
23. Montaner JS, Hogg RS. Hungering for HAART. Ann Intern Med. 2007; 146:609-610.
24. Staehelin C, Rickenbach M, Low N, et al. Migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa in the Swiss HIV Cohort Study: access to anti-retroviral therapy, disease progression and survival. AIDS. 2003;17: 2237-2244.