My Travel Medicine Journey

Today we’ll get back to the outline.  02. IMMUNOLOGY/VACCINOLOGY Types of Vaccines/Immunizations/Immunobiologics 04. Cholera Summary 4 Summary of cholera vaccines Vaccine name(Manufacturer) How given Number of doses recommended Age range How long vaccination is effective Available in the US? Vaxchora(Emergent BioSolutions) By mouth 1 dose 2–64 years At least 3–6 months Not currently* Dukoral(SBL Vaccines) By mouth 2 doses, given 1–6 weeks apart (Children aged 2–5 years need 3 doses, given 1 to 6 weeks apart) 2 years and older…

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I think I’ll take a break this week from the outline and share some pieces of information that I acquired while working that helped me with the exam. 

05. OTHER CLINICAL CONDITIONS ASSOCIATED WITH TRAVEL (10%)          01. Barotrauma Symptoms: Prevention: Treatment: Two points on this topic: I will never forget shortly after I graduated from residency I had a new mother bring her baby in for a routine well child check.  We discussed that she was going to be travelling with the baby and I gave some general pediatrician advice about the vaccinations.  When she asked if I had any other specific travel advice I remember blank panic as…

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Moving on to the next category we’ll start looking at diseases.  04. DISEASES CONTRACTED DURING TRAVEL (12%)          Diseases Associated with Vectors          01. African Tick Bite Fever 1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (n.d.). African tick bite fever. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/diseases/african-tick-bite-fever 2. Silva-Ramos, C. R., & Faccini-Martínez, Á. A. (2021, September 10). Clinical, epidemiological, and laboratory features of rickettsia africae infection, African tick-bite fever: A systematic review. Le infezioni in medicina. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8805502/