title: [Travel medicine: status of current recommendations for preventive measures in international travel].
abstract: More than 140,000 Austrians per year travel to warm climate countries of the Third World. They have to face the risk to acquire communicable diseases during their stay. Therefore, precise recommendations concerning prophylactic measures are important and necessary. This review deals with the range of actual health advice for Austrian travellers and tries to give a rationale. In detail, active and passive immunizations are discussed and, in addition, the actual situation on malaria chemoprophylaxis is described as relevant for international travel.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Spezifische Prophylaxe und Tropenmedizin, Universität Wien.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kollaritsch
mesh_terms: D000962:Antimalarials / Q000008:administration & dosage; D003140:Communicable Disease Control / Q000379:methods*; D006506:Hepatitis A / Q000517:prevention & control; D006801:Humans; D007115:Immunization Schedule; D007116:Immunization, Passive; D008288:Malaria / Q000517:prevention & control; D012307:Risk Factors; D014195:Travel; D014612:Vaccines / Q000008:administration & dosage
chemical_list: D000962:Antimalarials; D014612:Vaccines
vernacular_title: Reisemedizin: Stand der aktuellen Empfehlungen für prophylaktische Massnahmen im internationalen Reiseverkehr.