Lin H Chen

Summary

Affiliation: Harvard University
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Preventing infectious diseases during and after international adoption
    Lin H Chen
    Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02238, USA
    Ann Intern Med 139:371-8. 2003
  2. ncbi Hepatitis B screening in US travelers seen at the Boston area travel medicine network
    Lin H Chen
    Travel Medicine Center, Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, MA, USA
    J Travel Med 20:29-36. 2013
  3. ncbi Dengue and chikungunya in travelers: recent updates
    Lin H Chen
    Travel Medicine Center, Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
    Curr Opin Infect Dis 25:523-9. 2012
  4. ncbi 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
  5. ncbi Dengue and chikungunya infections in travelers
    Lin H Chen
    Travel Medicine Center, Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
    Curr Opin Infect Dis 23:438-44. 2010
  6. ncbi Illness in long-term travelers visiting GeoSentinel clinics
    Lin H Chen
    Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Emerg Infect Dis 15:1773-82. 2009
  7. ncbi The role of the traveler in emerging infections and magnitude of travel
    Lin 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
  8. ncbi Controversies and misconceptions in malaria chemoprophylaxis for travelers
    Lin H Chen
    Travel Medicine Center, Division of Infectious Diseases, Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, MA 02238, USA
    JAMA 297:2251-63. 2007
  9. ncbi Transmission of dengue virus without a mosquito vector: nosocomial mucocutaneous transmission and other routes of transmission
    Lin H Chen
    Harvard Medical School, Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
    Clin Infect Dis 39:e56-60. 2004
  10. ncbi New strategies for the prevention of malaria in travelers
    Lin H Chen
    Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
    Infect Dis Clin North Am 19:185-210. 2005

Detail Information

Publications17

  1. ncbi Preventing infectious diseases during and after international adoption
    Lin H Chen
    Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02238, USA
    Ann Intern Med 139:371-8. 2003
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  2. ncbi Hepatitis B screening in US travelers seen at the Boston area travel medicine network
    Lin H Chen
    Travel Medicine Center, Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, MA, USA
    J Travel Med 20:29-36. 2013
    ....
  3. ncbi Dengue and chikungunya in travelers: recent updates
    Lin 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...
  4. ncbi 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...
  5. ncbi Dengue and chikungunya infections in travelers
    Lin 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...
  6. ncbi Illness in long-term travelers visiting GeoSentinel clinics
    Lin 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...
  7. ncbi The role of the traveler in emerging infections and magnitude of travel
    Lin 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...
  8. ncbi Controversies and misconceptions in malaria chemoprophylaxis for travelers
    Lin 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...
  9. ncbi Transmission of dengue virus without a mosquito vector: nosocomial mucocutaneous transmission and other routes of transmission
    Lin 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...
  10. ncbi New strategies for the prevention of malaria in travelers
    Lin 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...
  11. ncbi Prevention of malaria in long-term travelers
    Lin 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...
  12. ncbi Vaccine administration decision making: the case of yellow fever vaccine
    Beth 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...
  13. ncbi Prevention of travel-related infectious diseases in families of internationally adopted children
    Elizabeth 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...
  14. ncbi NDM-1 and the Role of Travel in Its Dissemination
    Mary Elizabeth Wilson
    Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
    Curr Infect Dis Rep 14:213-26. 2012
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  15. ncbi Yellow fever vaccine seroconversion in travelers
    Allison 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...
  16. ncbi Nosocomial dengue by mucocutaneous transmission
    Lin H Chen
    Emerg Infect Dis 11:775. 2005
  17. ncbi Health risks in travelers to China: the GeoSentinel experience and implications for the 2008 Beijing Olympics
    Xiaohong 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...