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Now a day traveler diarrhea is considered as health challenges for all government in the world. The number of travelers is increasing day by day and unfortunately there is no unique way in order to preventing the travelers' diarrhea (1).
Although a few agent like E.coli, shigella, Rotaviruses have been introduced previously but there are many organisms which are not known for scientists at present time and will be introduce in future (2). With verification the clinical review which is published by British Medical Journal recently (3), we believe that the only way which could be reducing the risk of travelers' diarrhea is personal hygiene as well as health education. Finally we recommended personal hygiene and health education must be considered by government as the first priority in order to overcome the problem.
References:
1. Mehrabi Tavana A, Tavakkoli H.R. Review on Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever in the World. International Journal of Virology 2008, 4: 26-29.
2. Ranjbar R, Afshar D, Mehrabi Tavana A, Najafi A, Pourali Fa, Safiri Z, Sorouri Zanjani R, et al. Development of Multiplex PCR for Simultaneous Detection of Three Pathogenic Shigella Species. Iranian Journal of Public Health 2014. 43(12):1657-63.
3. Barrett J, Brown M. Travellers’ diarrhea. BMJ 2016;353:i1937.
Competing interests:
No competing interests
20 April 2016
Ali Mehrabi_Tavana
University Professor
Mohammad Meskarpour_Amiri
Health management research center, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Health management research center, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Re: Travellers’ diarrhoea
Dear Editor
Now a day traveler diarrhea is considered as health challenges for all government in the world. The number of travelers is increasing day by day and unfortunately there is no unique way in order to preventing the travelers' diarrhea (1).
Although a few agent like E.coli, shigella, Rotaviruses have been introduced previously but there are many organisms which are not known for scientists at present time and will be introduce in future (2). With verification the clinical review which is published by British Medical Journal recently (3), we believe that the only way which could be reducing the risk of travelers' diarrhea is personal hygiene as well as health education. Finally we recommended personal hygiene and health education must be considered by government as the first priority in order to overcome the problem.
References:
1. Mehrabi Tavana A, Tavakkoli H.R. Review on Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever in the World. International Journal of Virology 2008, 4: 26-29.
2. Ranjbar R, Afshar D, Mehrabi Tavana A, Najafi A, Pourali Fa, Safiri Z, Sorouri Zanjani R, et al. Development of Multiplex PCR for Simultaneous Detection of Three Pathogenic Shigella Species. Iranian Journal of Public Health 2014. 43(12):1657-63.
3. Barrett J, Brown M. Travellers’ diarrhea. BMJ 2016;353:i1937.
Competing interests: No competing interests