Society guideline links: Travel medicine

Introduction — This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.

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Links to related guidelines are provided separately:

●(See "Society guideline links: Bacterial meningitis in adults" and "Society guideline links: Bacterial meningitis in infants and children".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Hepatitis B vaccination" and "Society guideline links: Prevention of hepatitis B virus and hepatitis C virus infection among health care providers" and "Society guideline links: Hepatitis B infection in solid organ transplant candidates and recipients" and "Society guideline links: Diagnosis of hepatitis B" and "Society guideline links: Management of hepatitis B".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Infectious encephalitis".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Malaria".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Meningococcal infection".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Rabies".)

International

●World Health Organization (WHO): Travel and health

•Vaccination requirements and recommendations for international travellers; and malaria situation per country (2022, revised 2023)

•International Travel and Health – Vaccine-preventable diseases and vaccines, 2019 update (published 2020)

●WHO: Vaccine position papers

•Position paper on hepatitis A vaccines (2022)

•Position paper on rabies vaccines (2018)

•Position paper on typhoid vaccines (2018)

•Position paper on hepatitis B vaccines (2017)

•Position paper on Japanese encephalitis vaccines (2015)

•Position paper on vaccines and vaccination against yellow fever (2013)

●Recommendations for management of endemic diseases and travel medicine in solid-organ transplant recipients and donors – Latin America (2018)

Canada

●Committee to Advise on Tropical Medicine and Travel (CATMAT): Statements and recommendations

●Choosing Wisely Canada: Don't prescribe prophylactic antibiotics to prevent travellers' diarrhea (2021)

●Canadian Paediatric Society (CPS): Position statement update on invasive meningococcal vaccination for Canadian children and youth (2018, updated 2020)

●CPS: Practice point on vaccine-preventable diseases – Uncommon disease primer for the front-line provider (2019)

●CPS: Practice point on fever in the returning child traveller – Highlights for health care providers (2018)

United States

●Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP): Vaccine recommendations and guidelines

•Cholera vaccine recommendations

•Hepatitis A vaccine recommendations

•Hepatitis B vaccine recommendations

•Japanese encephalitis vaccine recommendations

•Meningococcal vaccine recommendations

•Rabies vaccine recommendations

•Typhoid vaccine recommendations

•Yellow fever vaccine recommendations

●Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Travelers' health – Clinician resources

●CDC: Yellow Book 2024 – Health Information for International Travel (published 2023)

●American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP): Red Book – International travel (2021)

●American Society of Transplantation (AST): Guidelines on travel medicine, transplant tourism, and the solid organ transplant recipient (2019)

●Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA): Clinical practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of infectious diarrhea (2017)

●American College of Gastroenterology (ACG): Clinical guideline on diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of acute diarrheal infections in adults (2016)

●IDSA: Clinical practice guideline for vaccination of the immunocompromised host (ARCHIVED; published 2013)

Europe

●European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC): Vaccine scheduler

●ECDC: Technical document on infectious diseases of specific relevance to newly-arrived migrants in the EU/EEA (2015)

United Kingdom

●Public Health England (PHE): Guidelines for malaria prevention in travellers from the UK (2014, updated 2023)

●PHE: The Green Book (2013, updated 2020)

•Cholera

•Hepatitis A

•Japanese encephalitis

•Meningococcal

•Typhoid

•Yellow fever

●Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow (RCPSG): Recommendations for the practice of travel medicine (2012)

Australia–New Zealand

●Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI): Australian Immunisation Handbook – Vaccination for international travellers