TY - ECHAP AU - Bottieau E AB -

Global human mobility has dramatically expanded in the past two decades, leading to a rise in Europe of the number of medical encounters related to Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) among travelers and migrants. While most NTDs remain mainly restricted to tropical areas, a set of them is frequently diagnosed in travel clinics, including dengue, schistosomiasis, strongyloidiasis and leishmaniasis. These four conditions account nowadays for up to 7% of all medical consultations in European travel clinics, no data being available for the primary care settings. In this Chapter, the current epidemiology and management of the main travel-related NTDs are updated, with a focus on the recent advances in diagnosis and therapy in the non-endemic setting. NTDs which are endemic in some parts of Europe and the particular situation of Chagas disease are addressed in other chapters of this book.

BT - Neglected Tropical Diseases DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-84224-6_7 LA - eng N2 -

Global human mobility has dramatically expanded in the past two decades, leading to a rise in Europe of the number of medical encounters related to Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) among travelers and migrants. While most NTDs remain mainly restricted to tropical areas, a set of them is frequently diagnosed in travel clinics, including dengue, schistosomiasis, strongyloidiasis and leishmaniasis. These four conditions account nowadays for up to 7% of all medical consultations in European travel clinics, no data being available for the primary care settings. In this Chapter, the current epidemiology and management of the main travel-related NTDs are updated, with a focus on the recent advances in diagnosis and therapy in the non-endemic setting. NTDs which are endemic in some parts of Europe and the particular situation of Chagas disease are addressed in other chapters of this book.

PB - Springer International Publishing PY - 2022 SN - 9783030842222/2194-8275, 2194-8283 SP - 123 EP - 156 T2 - Neglected Tropical Diseases TI - Neglected Tropical Diseases in Travelers ER -