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| Lin H ChenSummaryAffiliation: Harvard University Country: USA Publications
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Preventing infectious diseases during and after international adoptionLin H Chen
Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02238, USA
Ann Intern Med 139:371-8. 2003....
Hepatitis B screening in US travelers seen at the Boston area travel medicine networkLin H Chen
Travel Medicine Center, Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, MA, USA
J Travel Med 20:29-36. 2013....
Dengue and chikungunya in travelers: recent updatesLin H Chen
Travel Medicine Center, Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Curr Opin Infect Dis 25:523-9. 2012..This review focuses on the progress in these areas in the past 2 years...
Vaccination of travelers: how far have we come and where are we going?Lin H Chen
Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, MA, USA
Expert Rev Vaccines 10:1609-20. 2011..The future should bring vaccines for serogroup B Neiserria meningitidis, dengue and malaria, as well as an inactivated yellow fever vaccine...
Dengue and chikungunya infections in travelersLin H Chen
Travel Medicine Center, Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Curr Opin Infect Dis 23:438-44. 2010..We review the recent epidemiology of dengue and chikungunya infections and discuss their clinical presentations, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. We highlight the findings in travelers...
Illness in long-term travelers visiting GeoSentinel clinicsLin H Chen
Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 15:1773-82. 2009..Our results can help prioritize screening for and diagnosis of illness in long-term travelers and provide evidence-based pretravel advice...
The role of the traveler in emerging infections and magnitude of travelLin H Chen
Travel Medicine Center, Mount Auburn Hospital, 330 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA 02238, USA
Med Clin North Am 92:1409-32, xi. 2008..Studying illnesses in travelers is a source of knowledge into diseases of resource-poor regions and the control of these diseases. Travel-associated illnesses also serve to detect emerging infections...
Controversies and misconceptions in malaria chemoprophylaxis for travelersLin H Chen
Travel Medicine Center, Division of Infectious Diseases, Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, MA 02238, USA
JAMA 297:2251-63. 2007..Misconceptions about the seriousness of malaria, the tolerability of chemoprophylaxis drugs, and the efficacy and safety of repellents contribute to the controversies...
Transmission of dengue virus without a mosquito vector: nosocomial mucocutaneous transmission and other routes of transmissionLin H Chen
Harvard Medical School, Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Clin Infect Dis 39:e56-60. 2004..We believe that this is the first documented case of dengue virus transmission via the mucocutaneous route. We present case reports and review other ways that dengue virus has been transmitted without a mosquito vector...
New strategies for the prevention of malaria in travelersLin H Chen
Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Infect Dis Clin North Am 19:185-210. 2005..Finally, research in travel and tropical medicine should continue to focus on additional strategies to confront the ever-widening challenge of drug-resistant malaria...
Prevention of malaria in long-term travelersLin H Chen
Travel Medicine Center, Division of Infectious Diseases, Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, Mass 02238, USA
JAMA 296:2234-44. 2006..Current guidelines for malaria prevention primarily address prevention of Plasmodium falciparum infections in short-term travelers...
Vaccine administration decision making: the case of yellow fever vaccineBeth A Lown
Department of Medicine, Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, MA, USA
Clin Infect Dis 55:837-43. 2012..The impact of risk information and patients' requests for participation in vaccine decisions on providers' recommendations is unknown...
Prevention of travel-related infectious diseases in families of internationally adopted childrenElizabeth D Barnett
Maxwell Finland Laboratory for Infectious Diseases, Room 503, Boston Medical Center, 774 Albany Street, Boston, MA 02118, USA
Pediatr Clin North Am 52:1271-86, vi. 2005..Targeted preadoption counseling, close attention to hygiene and safety advice, and prompt identification and treatment of infections lead to the safest and most trouble-free adoption travel experience...
NDM-1 and the Role of Travel in Its DisseminationMary Elizabeth Wilson
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Curr Infect Dis Rep 14:213-26. 2012....
Yellow fever vaccine seroconversion in travelersAllison Kay
Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Am J Trop Med Hyg 85:748-9. 2011..This study corroborates the high rates of seroconversion achieved by the live-attenuated YF vaccine...
Nosocomial dengue by mucocutaneous transmissionLin H Chen
Emerg Infect Dis 11:775. 2005
Health risks in travelers to China: the GeoSentinel experience and implications for the 2008 Beijing OlympicsXiaohong M Davis
Division of Global Migration and Quarantine, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Am J Trop Med Hyg 79:4-8. 2008..Tropical and parasitic diseases were rare. Pre-travel consultation for China travelers should be individualized according to these findings...
