Epidemiological trends of traveler's diarrhea in Japan: An analysis of imported infectious disease registry data from 2017-2022.
C-reactive protein
epidemiology
travel diseases
traveler's diarrhea
Journal
Global health & medicine
ISSN: 2434-9194
Titre abrégé: Glob Health Med
Pays: Japan
ID NLM: 101771579
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
31 Dec 2023
31 Dec 2023
Historique:
received:
18
07
2023
revised:
27
09
2023
accepted:
31
10
2023
medline:
2
1
2024
pubmed:
2
1
2024
entrez:
1
1
2024
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Traveler's diarrhea (TD) is a global problem, and identifying the causative organisms of TD is important for adequate treatment. Therefore, this study retrospectively analyzed TD cases in patients who returned to Japan after traveling abroad to determine the causative organisms by travel region. We included patients with a final diagnosis of TD registered in the Japan Registry for Infectious Diseases from Abroad database from September 25, 2017, to September 1, 2022, from 14 medical institutions. A total of 919 patients were analyzed; the causative TD pathogen was identified in 188 cases (20%), of which 154 were caused by diarrheagenic bacteria, the most common being
Identifiants
pubmed: 38162433
doi: 10.35772/ghm.2023.01079
pmc: PMC10730917
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
372-376Informations de copyright
2023, National Center for Global Health and Medicine.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Yamamoto K received research grants from Fujirebio, Inc., Mizuho Medy, Co., Ltd., VisGene, Co., Ltd., Sanyo Chemical Industries, Ltd., Canon Medical Systems Co., and CarbGeM Inc. outside of the submitted work; the other authors have no conflicts of interest to disclose.