Immunization for children traveling abroad.
More children are travelling these days, often to underdeveloped countries with high prevalence of vaccine-preventable vector-borne, food-borne, zoonotic, and other infections. The pretravel office visit involves consideration of routine and travel vaccines. Epidemiology of typhoid fever, rabies, yellow fever, Japanese encephalitis, vaccines against them, and their recommended use are reviewed.
Sood
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Division of Infectious Diseases, Schneider Children's Hospital of North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, New Hyde Park, New York, USA. sood@lij.edu
D002648:Child; D000075202:Contraindications; D004672:Encephalitis, Japanese / Q000517:prevention & control; D006506:Hepatitis A / Q000517:prevention & control; D006801:Humans; D011819:Rabies Vaccines / Q000008:administration & dosage; D014195:Travel; D014435:Typhoid Fever / Q000517:prevention & control; D014611:Vaccination; D014761:Viral Hepatitis Vaccines; D014765:Viral Vaccines / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D015004:Yellow Fever / Q000517:prevention & control
D011819:Rabies Vaccines; D014761:Viral Hepatitis Vaccines; D014765:Viral Vaccines