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[A case of leptospirosis infected in Borneo Island, Malaysia]

Sakamoto M, Sagara H, Koizumi N, Watanabe H

Kansenshogaku Zasshi, 2001 Dec;75(12):1057-61.

We report a case of leptospirosis infected in Sabah, Borneo island, Malaysia. The case is 25-year-old male who had participated in the EcoChallenge Sabah 2000 Expedition Race, a multisport event held during August 20 to September 3, 2000 at various sites in Sabah in Malaysian Borneo. He developed a high fever and headache on September 7, and he was admitted to our hospital on September 9. On admission he also had conjunctivitis and myalgias. Laboratory findings on admission revealed leukocytosis with left shift, slightly elevated transaminase levels, high CRP levels and proteinuria. Plasmodium spp. were negative on blood smears, and no bacteria were isolated from blood and feces cultures. We performed the laboratory tests for leptospirosis, based on the information about the probable leptospirosis outbreak among athletes who participated in the EcoChallenge Race, however both Leptospira antigens and antibodies were negative at that time. We diagnosed leptospirosis clinically because he manifested persistent symptoms, and minocycline 100 mg b.i.d. was administered intravenously resulting in excellent efficacy. Serum antibody tests by microscopic agglutination test (MAT) at convalescent stage revealed significant increased antibodies against Leptospira interrogans serovar hebdomadis, and the diagnosis of leptospirosis was confirmed. Infectious diseases have been global and it is important to have information concerning worldwide infectious disease situations as much as possible for accurate diagnosis.

Matched MeSH terms: Travel*

The traveling athlete: issues relating to the Commonwealth Games, Malaysia, 1998

Young M, Fricker P, Maughan R, MacAuley D

Clin J Sport Med, 1998 Apr;8(2):130-5.

PMID: 9641444

Matched MeSH terms: Travel*

The travelling athlete: issues relating to the Commonwealth Games, Malaysia, 1998

Young M, Fricker P, Maughan R, MacAuley D

Br J Sports Med, 1998 Mar;32(1):77-81.

PMID: 9562173

Matched MeSH terms: Travel*

Fulltext Dengue haemorrhagic fever: a risk of returning home

Jacobs MG, Brook MG, Weir WR, Bannister BA

BMJ, 1991 Apr 06;302(6780):828-9.

PMID: 2025706

Matched MeSH terms: Travel*

Fulltext To travel is to live: embracing the emerging field of travel psychiatry

Flaherty G, Chai SY, Hallahan B

BJPsych Bull, 2020 Apr 13.

PMID: 32279684 DOI: 10.1192/bjb.2020.32

For a person with mental illness, travelling abroad can be challenging but it can be easier when the traveller and healthcare practitioner have a clear understanding of the likely impact of travel on the illness and of the illness on the travel experience. Travel may also precipitate first presentations of mental illness or unmask previously undiagnosed mental disorders. We propose that mental health problems should receive greater recognition in travel medicine and that psychiatrists should collaborate more closely with travel medicine clinicians to ensure that their patients benefit from the opportunities afforded by international travel.

Matched MeSH terms: Travel; Travel Medicine

Fulltext Travel medicine research in the new millennium: A bibliometric analysis of articles published in Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2003-2019

Oh KE, Flaherty GT

Travel Med Infect Dis, 2020 01 01;33:101549.

PMID: 31901399 DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2019.101549

Matched MeSH terms: Travel Medicine/statistics & numerical data*

[PRELIMINARY NOTES ON OUR ETHNOIATRIC MISSION MADE IN THE FAR EAST]

SCARPA A

Minerva Med, 1964 Dec 22;55:4152-63.

PMID: 14258599

Matched MeSH terms: Travel*

Fulltext Trend Analysis of Travel Medicine Topics Presented at an International Tropical Medicine Conference

Asawapaithulsert P, Flaherty GT, Piyaphanee W

Am J Trop Med Hyg, 2022 Aug 17;107(2):492-494.

PMID: 35895400 DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.22-0177

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a rapid increase in international travel. Travel medicine is a branch of preventive medicine focusing on risk assessment pre-travel, during travel and post-travel with the aim of promoting health and preventing adverse health outcomes. Travel medicine specialists inform travelers about potential health risks and mitigate infectious disease risks such as travelers' diarrhea, yellow fever, and malaria. Travel medicine topics were popular in the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene conferences between 2016 and 2020, and now comprise approximately 2% of all presentations. Most topics related to the post-travel assessment (50%), followed by diseases contracted during travel (26%), and pre-travel assessment and consultation (24%). Our analysis of the 10 sub-domains of travel medicine issues found that malaria (26%) and immunization (12%) were represented to the greatest extent. We anticipate that both travel and tropical medicine fields will regain their popularity after recovery from the pandemic.

Matched MeSH terms: Travel; Travel Medicine

Fulltext Proceedings of the 6th Asia Dengue Summit, June 2023

Srisawat N, Gubler DJ, Pangestu T, Limothai U, Thisyakorn U, Ismail Z, et al.

PLoS Negl Trop Dis, 2024 Mar;18(3):e0012060.

PMID: 38551892 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0012060

The 6th Asia Dengue Summit (ADS) themed "Road Map to Zero Dengue Death" was held in Thailand from 15th-16th June 2023. The summit was hosted by Tropical Medicine Cluster, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand in conjunction with Queen Saovabha Memorial Institute, The Thai Red Cross Society; Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University; and the Ministry of Public Health. The 6th ADS was convened by Asia Dengue Voice and Action (ADVA); Global Dengue and Aedes Transmitted Diseases Consortium (GDAC); Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Tropical Medicine and Public Health Network (SEAMEO TROPMED); Fondation Mérieux (FMx) and the International Society for Neglected Tropical Diseases (ISNTD). Dengue experts from academia and research, and representatives from the Ministries of Health, Regional and Global World Health Organization (WHO) and International Vaccine Institute (IVI) participated in the three-day summit. With more than 51 speakers and 451 delegates from over 24 countries, 10 symposiums, and 2 full days, the 6th ADS highlighted the growing threat of dengue and its antigenic evolution, flagged the urgent need to overcome vaccine hesitancy and misinformation crisis, and focused on dengue control policies, newer diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines, travel-associated dengue, and strategies to improve community involvement.

Matched MeSH terms: Travel*

Fulltext The Risk of Sexual Assault and Rape During International Travel: Implications for the Practice of Travel Medicine

Kennedy KM, Flaherty GT

J Travel Med, 2015 Apr-Aug;22(4):282-4.

PMID: 25827813 DOI: 10.1111/jtm.12201

Matched MeSH terms: Travel*; Travel Medicine/methods

Fulltext Impact of the Inflow Population From Outbreak Areas on the COVID-19 Epidemic in Yunnan Province and the Recommended Control Measures: A Preliminary Study

Sun Z, He G, Huang N, Chen H, Zhang S, Zhao Z, et al.

Front Public Health, 2020;8:609974.

PMID: 33344408 DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2020.609974

Background: COVID-19 developed into a global pandemic in 2020 and poses challenges regarding the prevention and control capabilities of countries. A large number of inbound travelers from other regions could lead to a renewed outbreak of COVID-19 in the local regions. Globally, as a result of the imbalance in the control of the epidemic, all countries are facing the risk of a renewed COVID-19 outbreak brought about by travelers from epidemic areas. Therefore, studies on a proper management of the inbound travelers are urgent. Methods: We collected a total of 4,733,414 inbound travelers and 174 COVID-19 diagnosed patients in Yunnan province from 21 January 2020 to 20 February 2020. Data on place of origin, travel history, age, and gender, as well as whether they had suspected clinical manifestations for inbound travelers in Yunnan were collected. The impact of inbound travelers on the local epidemic was analyzed with a collinear statistical analysis and the effect of the control measures on the epidemic was evaluated with a sophisticated modeling approach. Results: Of the 174 COVID-19 patients, 60.9% were not from Yunnan, and 76.4% had a history of travel in Hubei. The amount of new daily cases in Yunnan was significant correlated with the number of inbound travelers from Hubei and suspected cases among them. Using Susceptible-Exposed-Infectious-Recovered (SEIR) model analysis, we found that the prevention and control measures dropped the local R0 down to 1.07 in Yunnan province. Conclusions: Our preliminary analysis showed that the proper management of inbound travelers from outbreak areas has a significantly positive effect on the prevention and control of the virus. In the process of resettlement, some effective measures taken by Yunnan province may provide an important reference for preventing the renewed COVID-19 outbreak in other regions.

Matched MeSH terms: Travel

Fulltext FORECASTING THE NUMBER OF AIRPLANE PASSENGERS USING BOX-JENKINS AND ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK IN MALAYSIA

NURFARAHIN IDRUS, NORIZAN MOHAMED

UMT Journal of Undergraduate Research, 2020;2(4):89-100.

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Airline industry is one of the largest industries in the world of transport because it is the most important transport in the global transport system. The airline industry has played a very important role in the economic development in Malaysia. Due to the increase in its operating business, the demand for air travel increases day by day. Hence, this study focused on the number of passengers using air transport in Malaysia. The monthly data from January 2005 to December 2015 were obtained from Malaysia Airport Holdings Berhad (MAHB) in Sepang, Selangor. The data is divided into 2 parts, which are in sample data from January 2005 to December 2014 and out sample data from January 2015 to December 2015. The study was conducted to predict airline passengers in Malaysia using the Box-Jenkins model and Artificial Neural Network (ANN) model. Both models were studied to choose the best model. Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE) and Mean Squared Error (MSE) were used to measure the performance of both models. SARIMA was selected as the best model for Box-Jenkins with MAPE and MSE were 7.3458388 and 2.67011 respectively while Multilayer Feed Forward Neural Network (MFFNN) with seven input variables, with MAPE and MSE, 7.251 and 0.0006 respectively were selected as the best model for Multilayer Feed Forward Neural Network (FFNN). In conclusion, these studies have proven that the Multilayer Feed Forward Neural Network (FFNN) model is the best model for considering airplanes in Malaysia compared to the SARIMA model.

Matched MeSH terms: Air Travel

Travel health-related activities and services provided by community pharmacies in Selangor, Malaysia: A cross-sectional analysis

Kc B, Khan TM, Xuan WY, Alrasheedy AA, Mohamed Ibrahim MI, Leggat PA

Travel Med Infect Dis, 2019 07 31;33:101463.

PMID: 31376464 DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2019.07.019

BACKGROUND: Millions of tourists visit Malaysia annually while a large number of Malaysians travel overseas. Taking care of travellers' healthcare needs is important aspect of the healthcare system. Community pharmacies are ideally positioned to provide travel health-related services. However, studies are lacking in this area. Therefore, this study aims to explore the nature and type of travel health-related services provided by Malaysian community pharmacies.

METHODS: A survey was carried out at 135 community pharmacies in nine districts of Selangor, Malaysia, from November 2017 to February 2018, using a self-administered standardized questionnaire.

RESULTS: The majority (n = 95, 85%) of community pharmacies reported to have provided services to both international travellers and outbound Malaysian travellers. The common healthcare services provided to international travellers were monitoring of chronic diseases including hypertension and diabetes, and advice on minor ailments, supplements and medical devices. The key health services provided to outbound Malaysian travellers were advice on vaccination requirements, better management of chronic diseases and necessary medications to manage illness during travel. Most of the respondents supported the provision of travel health-related services through the community pharmacies.

CONCLUSION: The study findings showed that Malaysian community pharmacies provided several travel health-related services to both international and Malaysian outbound travellers. Pharmacists in Malaysia are ideally positioned to have an increased role in travel medicine. They have the training to advise on complex medication issues especially with regard to interactions and polypharmacy. However, further training and courses should be provided that are tailored specifically for the needs of this professional group.

Matched MeSH terms: Travel; Travel Medicine/methods*; Travel Medicine/statistics & numerical data*

What lies beneath-preventing accidental freshwater drowning in tourists

Flaherty GT

J Travel Med, 2018 05 01;25(1).

PMID: 29860444 DOI: 10.1093/jtm/tay038

Matched MeSH terms: Travel

Fulltext Self-planning traveller system

Khor, Chun Siang, Nasuha Lee Abdullah, Rosnah Idrus, Nura Muhammad Baba

Scientific Research Journal, 2017;14(2):73-87.

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This study aimed to understand the problems faced by self-planning
travellers when they plan for a trip by searching travel information from
the Internet and propose a system to facilitate the self-planning travellers
to obtain useful travel information. An online survey was conducted via
social media to understand the problems, the search criteria and types of
content of travel itinerary needed in facilitating the planning. A total of
65 responses were collected. The results showed that there were too many
unrelated information on the Web and travellers were unsure of where to
start the search. Also, the result revealed that the search criteria needed to
generate travel itinerary were travel date, travel duration, travel country
and travel budget. Finally, flight schedule, hotel accommodation, sightseeing
places, travelling route and things to do were the information required by
travellers for their travel itineraries. Based on the results, a travel itinerary
recommendation system named eTravelPlanner is proposed.

Matched MeSH terms: Travel

Customer Satisfaction and Expectation Approach on Regular Travel Package in Quality Service by Design Using Fuzzy Logic Controller

Mohammad Nasir Saludin, Rika Fatimah Panjaitan

Sains Malaysiana, 2004;33.

There are a lot of factors and conditions to be considered by tour and travel companies when designing quality product due to the fact that the product being sold is intangible and their ultimate goal is to sustain customers' loyalty. Fuzzy Logic Controller (FLC) has been observed to be compatible to this 'intangible' factor thus giving better result when compared to other methods. By using FLC, all communications are clear and have precise meaning.

Matched MeSH terms: Travel

Feasibility study on small cars as an alternative to conventional fleets due to low occupancy: case study in Indonesia

Setiyo M, Widodo EM, Rosyidi MI, Waluyo B, Pambuko ZB, Tamaldin N

Heliyon, 2020 Jan;6(1):e03318.

PMID: 32051877 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e03318

Consumer interest in privately managed urban transport services in Indonesia are showing a declining trend. On the other hand, the presence of Transportation on Demand (ToD) based on Internet of Things (IoT) has attracted the majority of conventional fleet customers which contribute to the declining trend of occupancy. Therefore, this study aims to present a feasibility study of a small car RE60 Three Passenger and One Driver (3P+1D) four-wheeler as an alternative to replace conventional fleets. The Break-Even Point (BEP), Net Present Value (NPV), Internal Rate of Return (IRR), and Payback Period (PP) are analyzed based on vehicle operating data. The analysis shows that there is an additional monthly income flow of IDR 1,533,122 and IDR 2,536,946 from RE60 operations compared to the high and low consumption of fuel from existing fleets, respectively. In conclusion, it is feasible to invest in small car RE60 as a replacement for the existing fleets since the fundamental indicators (BEP, NPV, IRR, and PP) showed positive results before the specified instalment period. Sensitivity analysis also shows good results, NPV shows positive results (>0) although the input conditions are made pessimistic to -30% from NPV base case. The BEP of RE60 will cut distance travelled at 190,670 km and 115,225 km, respectively. NPV of IDR 33,088,000 and IDR 80,841,000 will be obtained at the 60th month after the operation and IRR also enabled good scores, at 2.24% and 4.17%.

Matched MeSH terms: Travel

Fulltext Isolation of a Novel Recombinant Canine Coronavirus From a Visitor to Haiti: Further Evidence of Transmission of Coronaviruses of Zoonotic Origin to Humans

Lednicky JA, Tagliamonte MS, White SK, Blohm GM, Alam MM, Iovine NM, et al.

Clin Infect Dis, 2022 Aug 24;75(1):e1184-e1187.

PMID: 34718467 DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciab924

We isolated a novel coronavirus from a medical team member presenting with fever and malaise after travel to Haiti. The virus showed 99.4% similarity with a recombinant canine coronavirus recently identified in a pneumonia patient in Malaysia, suggesting that infection with this virus and/or recombinant variants occurs in multiple locations.

Matched MeSH terms: Travel

Fulltext First molecular documented case of a rarely reported parasite: Plasmodium knowlesi infection in Denmark in a traveller returning from Malaysian Borneo

Aftab H, Kemp M, Stensvold CR, Nielsen HV, Jakobsen MM, Porskrog A, et al.

Travel Med Infect Dis, 2023;53:102580.

PMID: 37088361 DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2023.102580

Plasmodium knowlesi has been reported as an emerging infection throughout the Southeast Asian region, especially in the Malaysian state of Sabah, where it accounts for the majority of the malaria cases reported. This is in contrast to Europe, where imported P. knowlesi is a rarely reported infection. We present a case of P. knowlesi infection in a Danish woman returning from a short trip to Malaysian Borneo. Microscopy of blood smears revealed 0.8% infected erythrocytes, but due to the atypical morphological presentation, a conclusive species identification was made by molecular methods. Plasmodium knowlesi is a potentially fatal infection and taking the increasing travel activity into consideration after the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, P. knowlesi should be a differential diagnosis in patients with travel-associated illness returning from highly endemic Southeast Asian areas.

Matched MeSH terms: Travel

Journal author funding sources and conflict of interest disclosures in travel medicine

Lim BWW, Flaherty GT

J Travel Med, 2023 Jun 23;30(4).

PMID: 37040343 DOI: 10.1093/jtm/taad046

Matched MeSH terms: Travel Medicine

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