Travel & Health
Our goal is to identify risk and protective factors for health during travel (discovery science), to test if travel advice and interventions improve health (evaluation science), and to assess ways to implement these findings into travel clinics and daily life (implementation science).
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Colonization with multidrug resistant enteropathogens in travellers to Southeast Asia Christoph Hatz
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This project studies the risk and protective factors for becoming colonized with multidrug resistant enteric pathogens while travelling to Southeast Asia. |
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Euro TravNet
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Euro TravelNet collates data on travel related illness imported to Europe. |
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Extended-Spectrum Cephalosporin and/or Colistin-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae in Swiss Travellers to Tanzania and Laos, in the Local Population, in Broiler Chicken and in Chicken Meat Esther Künzli
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We are studying antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the gastrointestinal tract in travellers returning from Laos or Zanzibar to compare them with bacteria found in the local population, local chicken and chicken meat in the respective regions. |
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Geosentinel
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The Geosentinel Network monitors travel-related illnesses and links epidemiological data with exposure information. |
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The HAIR Study
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We are studying the hair concentrations of anti-malarials in returned travellers. |
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Harmonisation of travel med advice ECTM/Tropnet Christoph Hatz
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We are standardizing the varied European recommendations for best practices in travel advice. |
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Immunogenicity and safety of live vaccines under immunosuppression
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The study aims to demonstrate that viremia and antibody production after yellow fever vaccination is comparable in travellers under low dose methotrexate and healthy travellers. |
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Immunogenicity and safety of vaccines in patients with rheumatological disease
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A multi-centre prospective cohort study on the immunogenicity and safety of tetanus booster vaccine and hepatitis A vaccine in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, axial spondyloarthritis, psoriatic arthritis and vasculitis and healthy controls. |
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Infection Tracking in Travellers (ITIT)
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The ITIT project collects data on infections in travellers using a mobile App (ITIT) and enables bottom-up surveillance of travel-related illness. |
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Mosquitos on Board (MoB)
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The goal of this project is to investigate imported vectors (such as mosquitoes) that stow away in planes and are carried to Europe. |
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Stop Measles in Switzerland – The Importance of Travel Medicine
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We investigate the role of travel medicine in updating measles vaccinations in the Swiss population. |
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Swisscoy
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This is a cohort study of the epidemiology of respiratory pathogens acquired during deployment in Kosovo. |
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The ALPHA (AnaLysis of PHarmacokinetics of Amikacin) Study
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A prospective, observational pilot study looking at the relationship between drug values and toxicities in patients receiving the standard treatment for multi drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). |
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TOURIST – Tracking Of Urgent Risks in Swiss Travelers
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This study uses new mobile Health (mHealth) technology to expand our understanding of risks to travellers and ultimately improve advice offered in Swiss travel clinics and world-wide. |
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Varicella seroprevalence in individuals with a negative or unknown varicella history – results from a large Travel Clinic in Switzerland between 2008 and 2015
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This study investigates varicella seroprevalence in Swiss travellers with a negative or unknown varicella history. |
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Discovery Science
Evaluation Science
Implementation Science