Abstract

GARCIA DE FRANCISCO, A.  and  PRIETO ZANCUDO, C.. Traveler's consultation (II): Vaccines and prophylaxis . Medifam [online]. 2002, vol.12, n.2, pp.74-95. ISSN 1131-5768.

The indication of the vaccines and prophylaxis in travelers of the tropical countries, make up the traveller´s consultation before the travel.  The vaccines of the typically tropical diseases like yelow fever, japanesse encephalitis, etc., depends on the areas to visite and the risk of transmission in the differents tropical diseases.  It´s important to mention that the diseases that are included in the calendar of systematic vaccinations in our countries (measles, poliomyelitis, tetanus, etc.), are very prevalents in the tropical countries, and this is the reason that the traveler must be correctly immunized from these diseases before the travel.  There are other diseases not very frecuent in our countries and they aren´t included in the calendar of systematic vaccinations (typhoid fever, hepatitis A, and so on), but in the tropical countries are a very important cause of morbymortality and it is indicated the inmunization in the travelers.  The most important disease capable of chemoprophylaxis in the tropical counties is the malaria. The malaria can produce death to travellers and it´s one of the causes of death infectious more important in the tropical countries.  We will also do an important mention about the prophylaxis of the traveller´s diarrhoea, because it´s very frecuent and prevalent in international travels.

Keywords : Vaccines; Prophylaxis; Traveler; Tropical.

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