Current Issue March 2012, Vol. 10, No. 2

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Review

Australian senior adventure travellers to Peru: Maximising older tourists’ travel health experience
March 2012(Vol. 10 | No. 2 | Pages 59-68)
Irmgard Bauer

Original Articles

The other rabies viruses: The emergence and importance of lyssaviruses from bats and other vertebrates
March 2012(Vol. 10 | No. 2 | Pages 69-79)
Charles H. Calisher, James A. Ellison

A retrospective study on imported hepatitis E in Japan
March 2012(Vol. 10 | No. 2 | Pages 80-85)
Tian-Cheng Li, Susumu Ochiai, Hiroaki Ishiko, Takaji Wakita, Tatsuo Miyamura, Naokazu Takeda

A multidisciplinary approach to engage VFR migrants in Madrid, Spain
17 May 2012
Miriam Navarro, Bárbara Navaza, Anne Guionnet, Rogelio López-Vélez
Summary: VFRs are at a greater risk of contracting travel-related illnesses such as malaria, and their knowledge about travel health tends to be poor. Since 2009, community-based activities targeting ...
Currently approved post-exposure rabies prophylaxis regimens
14 May 2012
Henry Wilde, Supaporn Wacharapluesadee, Thiravat Hemachudha
Mary Warrell deserves credit as a developer of cost-benefit-effective intradermal post-exposure rabies vaccine schedules. Her work helped eliminate dangerous poorly immunogenic nerve tissue derived Se...
Imported cases of Ross River virus disease in New Zealand – A travel medicine perspective
14 May 2012
Colleen Lau, Philip Weinstein, David Slaney
Summary: No known locally acquired human mosquito-borne diseases have occurred in New Zealand, and reported cases of arboviral infections have been diagnosed exclusively in travellers. In this paper, ...
Microbiological findings from the Haiti disaster
23 April 2012
Alexandre Rodrigues Marra, Marines Dalla Valle Martino, Mauro Ricardo Ribas, Carlos Rodriguez-Taveras, Oscar Fernando Pavao dos Santos
Summary: There are few data regarding microbiological findings from the disaster situation in Haiti. A rapid and accurate diagnosis of infection is necessary for the optimal efficacy of antimicrobial ...
Paediatric international travellers from Greece: Characteristics and pre-travel recommendations
23 April 2012
Helena C. Maltezou, Androula Pavli, Athina Spilioti, Panos Katerelos, Maria Theodoridou
Summary: The aim of this study was to describe the children who seek pre-travel advice in Greece. During 2008–2010, 4065 persons sought pre-travel services in the 57 Prefectures, including 128 (3.15%)...

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Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow More

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About Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

The journal will publish original papers and invited reviews covering all aspects of travel medicine and infectious disease. These will include the epidemiology and surveillance of travel-related infectious disease, vaccine-preventable disease, illness in returning travellers, aviation medicine including psychological aspects, environmental hazards of travel, practical clinical issues for travellers, tropical medicine and tropical skin disease and general aspects of travel medicine and infectious disease.

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Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease is published by Elsevier.

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10th Anniversary Collection of
Editor's Choice Articles

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the publication of Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease, the Editor-in-Chief, Jane Zuckerman has selected ten articles from the journal archive to be made freely available to readers as part of a special anniversary collection

The articles selected for the anniversary collection cover a wide range of topics and represent some of the most downloaded and highly read papers published in the journal over the last 10 years.

Please join us in celebrating the 10th anniversary of Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease and enjoy reading this special collection of articles

Editor-in- Chief: Jane Zuckerman, Academic Centre for Travel Medicine and Vaccines, WHO Collaborating Centre for Travel Medicine, R.F.U.C.M.S., Royal Free Campus.

News and Announcements

£250 Prize for the Best accepted paper in 2012 in First Look - Student Research

Prize Terms and conditions

First Look - Student Research was a new section launched in 2009 in the Journal Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease. The Editor, Dr Jane Zuckerman is delighted to invite Undergraduate and Postgraduate students to submit manuscripts on any aspect of travel medicine, infectious disease or international health for publication in the Journal. The submitted paper should be approximately 3,000 words in length.

For instructions on how to submit your article please go to:
http://ees.elsevier.com/tmaid/

The winner of the £250 Prize for the Best accepted paper in 2011 is Yegor Triliskiy with the paper Heart rate variability during two sequential mountaineering expeditions published in Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease, Volume 9, Issue 3, May 2011, Pages 165-168. Congratulations Yegor.

The editors of Peter’s Atlas of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, published by Elsevier, are actively seeking pictures — both new and replacements — for the next edition. If you have a great picture that hasn’t been previously published please email it to j.scott2@elsevier.com for potential publication. All pictures included in the new edition will receive full acknowledgment.