Malaria in travellers returning or migrating to Canada: surveillance report from CanTravNet surveillance data, 2004-2014.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Malaria remains the most common specific cause of fever in returned travellers and can be life-threatening. We examined demographic and travel correlates of malaria among Canadian travellers and immigrants to identify groups for targeted pretravel intervention.

Methods

Descriptive data on ill returned Canadian travellers and immigrants presenting to a CanTravNet site between 2004 and 2014 with a diagnosis of malaria were analyzed. Data were collected using the GeoSentinel data platform. This network comprises 63 specialized travel and tropical medicine clinics, including 7 Canadian sites (Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Ottawa, Winnipeg and Montréal), that contribute anonymous, delinked, clinician- and questionnaire-based travel surveillance data on all ill traveller

SUBMITTER: Boggild AK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5047843 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul-Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature