Ole Wichmann1*
, Tomas Jelinek1
, Gabriele Peyerl-Hoffmann3
, Nikolai Mühlberger1
, Martin P Grobusch2,4
, Joaquim Gascon8
, Alberto Matteelli10
, Christoph Hatz11
, Hermann Laferl12
, Marco Schulze5
, Gerd Burchard1,6
, Saraiva da Cunha14
, Jiøi Beran15
, Paul McWhinney16
, Herwig Kollaritsch13
, Peter Kern7
, Juan Cuadros9
, Michael Alifrangis17
and Ida Gjørup17
for the European Network on Surveillance of Imported Infectious Diseases (TropNetEurop)
1
Institute of Tropical Medicine. Charité, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
2
Department of Medicine (Infectious Diseases), Charité, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
3
Department of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, University of Munich, Germany
4
Institut für Tropenmedizin, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany
5
Städtische Kliniken "St. Georg", 2. Klinik für Innere Medizin, Leipzig, Germany
6
Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine, University of Hamburg, Germany
7
Sektion Infektiologie und Klinische Immunologie, Universität Ulm, Ulm, Germany
8
Secció Medicina Tropical, Hospital Clinic, IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain
9
Department of Clinical Microbiology and Parasitology, Hospital Príncipe de Asturias, Madrid, Spain
10
Clinica di Malattie Infettive e Tropicali, Universitá di Bresci, Italy
11
Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel, Switzerland
12
Kaiser-Franz-Josef-Spital der Stadt Wien, 4. Medizinische Abteilung mit Infektions-und Tropenmedizin, Germany
13
Abteilung für spezifische Prophylaxe und Tropenmedizin am Institut für Pathophysiologie, University of Vienna and Kaiser-Franz-Josef-Spital der Stadt Wien, Vienna, Austria
14
Consulta de Medicina do Viajante, Departamento de Doenças Infecciosas, Hospital Universitário, Coimbra, Portugal
15
Department of Infectious Diseases, University Hospital, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic
16
Bradford Royal Infirmary, Infection and Tropical Medicine, Bradford, United Kingdom
17
Department of Infectious Diseases, University Hospital and Centre of Medical Parasitology, Panum Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark