Managing monkey bites in returning travellers

Matthew Kennedy; Amandip Sahota; Martin Wiselka; Jeroen J.A. van Kampen; Marion P.G. Koopmans; Julian W. Tang

doi:10.1016/j.jinf.2019.03.002

Letter to the Editor| Volume 78, ISSUE 6, P491-503, June 2019

Managing monkey bites in returning travellers

Matthew Kennedy
Matthew Kennedy
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Clinical Microbiology, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Level 5 Sandringham Building, Leicester Royal Infirmary, Infirmary Square, Leicester LE1 5WW, UK
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Amandip Sahota
Amandip Sahota
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Infectious Diseases Unit, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester, UK
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Martin Wiselka
Martin Wiselka
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Infectious Diseases Unit, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester, UK
Department of Respiratory Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
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Jeroen J.A. van Kampen
Jeroen J.A. van Kampen
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Department of Viroscience, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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Marion P.G. Koopmans
Marion P.G. Koopmans
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Department of Viroscience, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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Julian W. Tang
Julian W. Tang
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Corresponding author at: Clinical Microbiology, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Level 5 Sandringham Building, Leicester Royal Infirmary, Infirmary Square, Leicester LE1 5WW, UK.
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Published:March 05, 2019DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinf.2019.03.002

We note the previous report describing a decreasing incidence of eosinophilia in returning travellers by Barrett and colleagues.

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Barrett J.
Warrell C.E.
Macpherson L.
Watson J.
Lowe P.
Armstrong M.
et al.

The changing aetiology of eosinophilia in migrants and returning travellers in the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, London 2002–2015: an observational study.

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