title: [Vaccinations for the travellers].
abstract: Immunisations for the traveller include, before specific vaccine, a correct immunisation schedule according to national recommendations with appropriate boosters and hepatitis B immunisation. The yellow fever vaccine is required to entry in countries of endemic area and quadrivalent ACYW135 meningococcal vaccine for entry in Saudi Arabia. Hepatitis A immunisation could be performed at 1 year of age and is recommended for travellers in tropical areas and children vaccination control the disease both in the patient and in the contacts. Meningococcal A+C vaccines are required for travellers in meningitis-prone areas of tropical Africa during the dry season (December to June), and quadrivalent ACYW135 is useful only in Burkina-Faso and Niger. Typhoid and rabies vaccines are required for ambulatory travellers in endemic areas, as Japanese encephalitis in south-west Asia. In central Europe, tick-borne encephalitis vaccination is recommended for patients travelling in forest areas during spring and summer.
authors.affiliation: Service de pédiatrie, pathologie infectieuse et tropicale, hôpital Cochin-Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, 75014 Paris. dominique.gendrel@svp.ap-hop-paris.fr
authors.forename: Dominique
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Gendrel
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003141:Communicable Diseases; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007115:Immunization Schedule; D007117:Immunization, Secondary; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012307:Risk Factors; D012621:Seasons; D014195:Travel; D014611:Vaccination / Q000592:standards*; D014612:Vaccines / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000627:therapeutic use*
chemical_list: D014612:Vaccines