Travel-related illness counseling urged in pediatric populations

  • May 24, 2013

Clinicians who care for children who travel to typhoid-endemic areas are being urged in a recently published paper to discuss typhoid and other travel-related infections and arrange for necessary vaccinations before the child travels.

Caroline Quach, MD, MSc, of The Montreal Children’s Hospital, and colleagues included data on 39 patients aged younger than 18 years who presented to their hospital with confirmed typhoid fever between 1991 and 2011.

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