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Table 3 Selected etiologic diagnoses according to travel region among 6957 patients seen at EuroTravNet core sites in 2008.

From: Travel and migration associated infectious diseases morbidity in Europe, 2008

 

Total N %

Caribbean

Central America

Europe

Middle East

North Africa

North East Asia

Other

South America

South Central Asia

South East Asia

Sub-Saharan Africa

No single region

Acute Diarrhea

1205

27

42

67

33

119

15

6

70

263

131

319

113

 

17%

24%

32%

20%

31%

36%

19%

8%

15%

39%

21%

18%

5%

Campylobacter

87

0

0

4

6

6

2

0

4

25

17

16

7

 

1%

0%

0%

1%

6%

2%

3%

0%

1%

4%

3%

1%

0%

Shigella

333

5

8

13

11

27

4

1

12

76

31

108

37

 

5%

4%

6%

4%

10%

8%

5%

1%

3%

11%

5%

6%

2%

Salmonella NT

59

1

1

5

1

7

1

0

3

5

7

19

9

 

1%

1%

1%

2%

1%

2%

1%

0%

1%

1%

1%

1%

0%

Giardia

193

2

5

7

4

7

0

0

13

74

15

47

19

 

3%

2%

4%

2%

4%

2%

0%

0%

3%

11%

2%

3%

1%

Amebas

25

1

1

0

0

1

0

0

2

10

1

7

2

 

0%

1%

1%

0%

0%

0%

0%

0%

0%

2%

0%

0%

0%

Febrile

1378

23

21

46

16

22

17

9

70

116

160

602

276

Systemic*

20%

20%

16%

14%

15%

7%

22%

12%

15%

17%

25%

33%

13%

P. falciparum Malaria

255

2

0

0

0

2

0

0

1

3

0

241

6

 

4%

2%

0%

0%

0%

1%

0%

0%

0%

0%

0%

13%

0%

Malaria other

116

0

0

0

0

2

0

3

11

12

1

82

5

 

2%

0%

0%

0%

0%

1%

0%

4%

2%

2%

0%

5%

0%

Dengue

131

6

7

0

0

1

1

0

13

21

60

9

13

 

2%

5%

5%

0%

0%

0%

1%

0%

3%

3%

10%

1%

1%

Chikungunya

12

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

4

0

8

0

 

0%

0%

0%

0%

0%

0%

0%

0%

0%

1%

0%

0%

0%

Rickettsiosis

50

0

0

6

1

0

2

0

1

1

0

36

3

 

1%

0%

0%

2%

1%

0%

3%

0%

0%

0%

0%

2%

0%

Salmonellosis

20

0

0

1

0

1

0

0

0

8

2

6

2

 

0%

0%

0%

0%

0%

0%

0%

0%

0%

1%

0%

0%

0%

Dermatologic

851

35

34

62

14

43

9

27

83

72

140

216

116

 

12%

30%

26%

18%

13%

13%

12%

37%

18%

11%

22%

12%

5%

Rabies PEP

65

0

2

6

4

19

1

2

5

2

17

7

0

 

1%

0%

2%

2%

4%

6%

1%

3%

1%

0%

3%

0%

0%

Arthropods' bite

177

9

5

24

3

5

2

7

18

14

43

37

10

 

3%

8%

4%

7%

3%

2%

3%

10%

4%

2%

7%

2%

1%

Larva migrans

97

3

6

1

0

1

0

2

17

10

24

28

5

 

1%

3%

5%

0%

0%

0%

0%

3%

4%

2%

4%

2%

0%

Bacterial infection

229

14

11

15

5

6

2

9

13

23

33

63

35

 

3%

12%

8%

4%

5%

2%

3%

12%

3%

3%

5%

4%

2%

Leishmaniasis

15

0

2

1

0

3

0

0

3

1

0

0

5

 

0%

0%

2%

0%

0%

1%

0%

0%

1%

0%

0%

0%

0%

Myiasis

22

0

3

0

0

0

0

0

6

0

0

12

1

 

0%

0%

2%

0%

0%

0%

0%

0%

1%

0%

0%

1%

0%

Respiratory

540

8

6

72

10

15

4

8

18

65

65

119

150

 

8%

7%

5%

21%

9%

5%

5%

11%

4%

10%

10%

7%

7%

STIs

42

0

0

4

0

1

0

0

3

1

6

10

17

 

1%

0%

0%

1%

0%

0%

0%

0%

1%

0%

1%

1%

1%

Schistosomiasis

129

0

0

2

1

11

0

0

2

2

2

79

30

 

2%

0%

0%

1%

1%

3%

0%

0%

0%

0%

0%

4%

1%

  1. Cases of dengue reported by EuroTravNet core sites in Brescia, Italy and Oslo, Sweden have been included in [34]