title: Viral hepatitis and international travel.
abstract: Hepatitis A is widely encountered during international travel. Risk varies with duration of travel, adherence to usual tourist routes and frequency of endemic disease. Prophylaxis with immune globulin is effective and has particular indications. Although travelers are not generally considered to be at risk of hepatitis B unless they have sexual contact with the indigenous population, the risk may be greater than was previously estimated.
mesh_terms: D006506:Hepatitis A / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000635:transmission; D006509:Hepatitis B / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000635:transmission; D006526:Hepatitis C / Q000635:transmission; D003699:Hepatitis D / Q000635:transmission; D006525:Hepatitis, Viral, Human / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000635:transmission*; D006801:Humans; D007116:Immunization, Passive; D012306:Risk; D014195:Travel