title: [Imported diseases].
abstract: With continuing worldwide growth in travel, timely information about the epidemiology of post-travel illness is important. Various travel-related surveillance systems have been established that provide these data. Knowledge about prevalences of important diseases in travelers and migrants can help in the differential diagnosis. On the other hand it has be kept in mind that also rare, but life-threatening diseases can be imported like leptospirosis, viral hemorrhagic fever or amebic liver abcess.
authors.affiliation: Ifi-Institut für Interdisziplinäre Medizin, Hamburg.
authors.forename: Gerd
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Burchard
mesh_terms: D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000635:transmission*; D017281:Cost of Illness; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D003967:Diarrhea / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000517:prevention & control; D005544:Forecasting; D006482:Hemorrhagic Fevers, Viral / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000635:transmission; D006801:Humans; D038622:Internationality; D007922:Leptospirosis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000635:transmission; D008101:Liver Abscess, Amebic / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000635:transmission; D008288:Malaria / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000635:transmission; D014171:Transients and Migrants / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014195:Travel; D057236:Travel Medicine / Q000639:trends*; D014777:Virus Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000635:transmission*