Abstract
We characterized posttravel hospitalizations of citizens returning to Israel by summarizing the returning traveler hospitalization dataset of the national referral Center for Travel Medicine and Tropical Diseases at Sheba Medical Center in Israel. Of 722 hospitalizations, 181 (25%) infections were life-threatening; most would have been preventable by chemoprophylaxis and pretravel vaccination.
Highlights
We characterized posttravel hospitalizations of citizens returning to Israel by summarizing the returning traveler hospitalization dataset of the national referral Center for Travel Medicine and Tropical Diseases at Sheba Medical Center in Israel
We characterized posttravel hospitalizations of citizens returning to Israel by summarizing the Sheba Medical Center (SMC) returning traveler hospitalization dataset
The Study We investigated all international travel–associated hospitalizations of citizens of Israel at SMC during 2004–2015
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