SY Angell, MS Cetron - Annals of internal medicine, 2005 - Am Coll Physicians For an estimated 10 million trips abroad by US residents in 2002, “visiting friends and
relatives” (VFR) was a purpose for travel. Made up largely of foreign-born US residents and their
children, this population shows disparities in the number of reported cases of many ... Cited by 47 - Related articles - All 6 versions
N Bacaner, B Stauffer, DR Boulware, PF Walker, JS … - Jama, 2004 - Am Med Assoc Evidence Synthesis Immigrants visiting friends and relatives experience excessive rates of
travel-related morbidity and mortality. Lack of pretravel care is common due to patient and clinician
barriers to care, preexisting health beliefs, and incomplete childhood vaccinations. Travel ... Cited by 107 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 5 versions
K Leder, S Tong, L Weld, KC Kain, A Wilder- … - Clinical infectious …, 2006 - UChicago Press Featured in New York Times "Searching the Web for Flu Outbreaks" November 28, 2008 Using
Internet Searches for Influenza Surveillance Philip M. Polgreen, Yiling Chen, David M.
Pennock, and Forrest D. Nelson One study, published by the journal Clinical Infectious ... Cited by 50 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 6 versions
P Schlagenhauf, R Steffen, L Loutan - … of the International Society of Travel … - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov 1: J Travel Med. 2003 Mar-Apr;10(2):106-7. Migrants as a major risk group for imported
malaria in European countries. Schlagenhauf P, Steffen R, Loutan L. University of Zürich
Travel Clinic and World Health Organization Collaborating ... Cited by 50 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 2 versions
L Fenner, R Weber, R Steffen, P Schlagenhauf - 2007 - pubmedcentral.nih.gov We evaluated the epidemiologic factors of patients seeking treatment for travel-associated illness
from January 2004 through May 2005 at the University Hospital of Zurich. When comparing persons
whose purpose of travel was visiting friends and relatives (VFR travelers; n = 121) with ... Cited by 21 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 6 versions
- ►nih.gov [PDF] RH Behrens, M Collins, B Botto, J … - BMJ: British Medical …, 1995 - pubmedcentral.nih.gov EDITOR,-During the publicity last year about necrotising fasciitis the media frequently stated
that 10% of the British population carry group A ,B haemolytic streptococci.' Textbooks give a
figure of 5-20%.' We tested whether these figures apply to a rural population by taking ... Cited by 13 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
M Fulford, JS Keystone - Current Infectious Disease Reports, 2005 - Springer Introduction In 1990, 9% of the population of the United States were first- generation
immigrants; by the year 2000, this had increased to more than 12% or almost 35 million
people. If one also takes into consideration the children of first-generation immigrants, ... Cited by 19 - Related articles - All 5 versions
SY Angell, RH Behrens - Infectious disease clinics of North America, 2005 - Elsevier Travelers from the developed world to a developing country for the purpose of visiting friends
and relatives (VFRs) have long been considered at potentially high-risk. Never before,
however, has this objective for travel abroad reached such high volume as in recent ... Cited by 24 - Related articles - All 3 versions
EC Jong - The American journal of medicine, 2005 - Elsevier Among the industrialized nations, the United States annually receives the greatest number of
immigrants as permanent residents. Immigrants from Mexico have represented the largest segment
of the foreign-born population in recent decades, and continued growth of Mexican ... Cited by 11 - Related articles - All 10 versions
F Castelli, A Matteelli, S Caligaris, M Gulletta, I El- … - Parassitologia, 1999 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov An increasing proportion of malaria cases in Italy is observed in immigrants revisiting their country
of origin, but little specific research work has been carried out in this field. All malaria cases occurring
from 1990 to 1998 at the Reference Clinic for Infectious and Tropical Diseases in Brescia ... Cited by 27 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 2 versions
