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The services we offer are based on the latest and leading research. This enables us to ensure that you receive the best quality advice, wherever you travel. Our research areas include travel medicine, various communicable diseases such as HIV or tuberculosis, and emerging pathogens such as SARS-CoV2. We are also the coordinating center for the Swiss-wide Corona antibody study Corona Immunitas.

Further publications and research projects can be found on the website of our parent institute, the Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute.

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ITIT = Illness Tracking in Travellers

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Publications

2025

Work ability trajectories and sick leave in individuals with post COVID-19 condition: 3-year follow-up of a population-based cohort
Can One Health help reduce the environmental impacts of the healthcare system in Switzerland? Insights from an interdisciplinary focus group.
Airport/seaport and autochthonous malaria in Europe from 1969 to 2022: A systematic review
Problematic online dating app use and its association with mental and sexual health outcomes in a sample of Men-having-Sex-with-Men
Relations of problematic online dating app use with mental and sexual health: a cross-sectional study in Swiss university students.
Travel to malaria-endemic areas: using digital geo-location to assess potential exposure risks and health behaviours.
Disparities in response to mRNA SARS-CoV-2 vaccines according to sex and age: A systematic review.
Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeaebacterial loads in men who have sex with men on pre-exposure prophylaxis: a cross-sectional study
Assessing the Value of T cell Monitoring in the General Population of Children and Adolescents - Insights From the Ciao Corona Cohort Study.
Reconstructing the spread of measles in the 20th century: An epidemiological analysis of the period prior to the introduction of vaccination in Switzerland.
Machine Learning Identifies Sexual Behavior Subgroups Among Men Who Have Sex with Men in Switzerland.
Mapping advanced practice nurses' scope of practice, satisfaction, and drivers of role performance.
Can hair concentrations of artemether-lumefantrine be used as a tool to retrospectively determine drug exposure during malaria treatment?
Shortage of praziquantel in Europe: a clarion call for urgent action.
Game on: public health readiness for upcoming FIFA world cups
Seroprevalence of tick-borne infections in blood donors in Europe: a systematic review.
Cardiorespiratory impact of COVID-19 in young adults: A propensity score-weighted cohort study.
Aedes-borne arboviral human infections in Europe from 2000 to 2023: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Disparities in response to mRNA SARS-CoV-2 vaccines according to sex and age: A systematic review.
Mechanistic Insights into Homoserine O-Acetyltransferase from Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on routine childhood immunisation coverage and timeliness in Switzerland: a retrospective analysis using data from the Swiss National Vaccination Coverage Survey
Kidney disease must be counted everywhere.
Mind the gap in kidney care: translating what we know into what we do.
Trends in nephrology: decades later, the importance of glomerular hyperfiltration in daily kidney care.
Ethical Challenges in International Trial.
A bioluminescence-based chemical screen identifies a bactericidal naphthalene scaffold targeting MmpL3 in Mycobacterium abscessus.
The mycobacterial ATP burst is a lysis artifact and serves as an assay for drug-induced cell wall damage.
Mechanistic Insights into Homoserine O-Acetyltransferase from Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Can hair concentrations of artemether-lumefantrine be used as a tool to retrospectively determine drug exposure during malaria treatment?
Real-time illness monitoring in travellers: an international, prospective, digital surveillance study.
Screening for stowaway exotic arthropods imported into Europe via aircraft: A cross-sectional analysis.
Incidence of tick-borne encephalitis in unvaccinated populations across Europe (2020–2023).
Longitudinal characterisation of immune responses in blood and breast milk and symptoms after mRNA vaccination in lactating women.
Fast-track to protection? A review of Encepur’s express dosing schedule for tick-borne encephalitis.
Not just passing through: bone marrow as a home for diverse resident T cells.
Local transmission of arboviral infections in the south of France and prevention paradigms - status quo August 2025.
Occupational health of employees with mental health issues: The role of psychosocial working conditions and sense of coherence.
The relationship between health-promoting leader-ship and mental health stigma in the workplace.
Longitudinal changes in occupational well-being: A four-wave panel survey of employees in Switzerland and Germany.
Adapting mental health needs analysis activities to online and hybrid methods: Lessons learned during COVID-19.
Unravelling job demand–control–support patterns and job stressors as predictors: A cross-sectional latent profile and network analysis among Italian hospital workers.
Long-term development in job crafting in employees with and without mental health issues during COVID-19: The role of job resources.
Salutogenesis in the context of work . The Hitchhiker’s guide to salutogenesis.
Future perspectives. The Hitchhiker’s guide to salutogenesis.
Resources and Meeting Places of Salutogenesis: The Global Working Group, the Society, the Handbook and the Center of Salutogenesis.
Ivermectin's role in malaria control: the simplicity and the complexity.
Recommendations Regarding PrEP Use – The “SwissPrEPared Guidance” Version 4.0

2024

A combined cross-sectional analysis and case-control study evaluating tick-borne encephalitis vaccination coverage, disease and vaccine effectiveness in children and adolescents, Switzerland, 2005 to 2022
Chagas disease in Switzerland: current situation, challenges and opportunities
Defining the “Correlate(s) of Protection” to tick-borne encephalitis vaccination and infection – key points and outstanding questions
Dengue "homegrown" in Europe (2022 to 2023)
Dengue in France in 2024 - A year of record numbers of imported and autochthonous cases
Disparities in response to mRNA SARS-CoV-2 vaccines according to sex and age: A systematic review
Effects of Pycnogenol® in people with post-COVID-19 condition (PYCNOVID): study protocol for a single-center, placebo controlled, quadruple-blind, randomized trial
Incidence of sexually transmitted infections and association with behavioural factors: Time-to-event analysis of a large pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) cohort
Intestinal protozoa in returning travellers: a GeoSentinel analysis from 2007 to 2019
Measles matter: Recent outbreaks highlight the need for catch-up vaccination in Europe and around the globe
Methodology of the joint malaria prevention recommendations of Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands
Monitoring changes in respiratory pathogen carriage in Swiss Armed Forces personnel deployed in Kosovo using pre- and post-deployment nasal swabs
Mpox outbreak in South Africa: A wake-up call for strengthening preparedness and response
Mpox virus infection in women and outbreak sex disparities: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Rebound and steep increase of international travel after the COVID-19 pandemic: where are we going from here?
SARS-CoV-2 Quarantine Mandated by Contact Tracing: Burden and Infection Rate Among Close Contacts in Zurich, Switzerland, 2020-2021
Sexual behaviours and risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection among MSM during the first COVID-19 lockdown
Streamlining malaria prevention recommendations for travellers: current and future approaches
Surveillance of global, travel-related illness using a novel app: a multivariable, cross-sectional study
Surveillance of global, travel-related illness using a novel app: a multivariable, cross-sectional study
Tollwut-Update 2025: das Wichtigste in Kürze
Travel to malaria-endemic areas: using digital geo-location to assess potential exposure risks and health behaviours
Upsurge in cases of travellers' malaria ex Zanzibar indicates that malaria is on the rebound in the archipelago
Vaccination against dengue fever for travellers : statement of the Swiss Expert Committee for Travel Medicine, an organ of the Swiss Society for Tropical and Travel Medicine, August 2024

2023

Rebound and steep increase of international travel after the COVID-19 pandemic: where are we going from here?
Recovery and symptom trajectories up to two years after SARS-CoV-2 infection: population based, longitudinal cohort study
Post COVID-19 condition after Wildtype, Delta, and Omicron SARS-CoV-2 infection and prior vaccination: Pooled analysis of two population-based cohorts
Adverse effects, perceptions and attitudes related to BNT162b2, mRNA-1273 or JNJ-78436735 SARS-CoV-2 vaccines: Population-based cohort
T-Cell Exhaustion in HIV-1/Hepatitis C Virus Coinfection Is Reduced After Successful Treatment of Chronic Hepatitis C
Interplay of Digital Proximity App Use and SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Uptake in Switzerland: Analysis of Two Population-Based Cohort Studies
Development of a new travellers' diarrhoea clinical severity classification and its utility in confirming rifamycin-SV efficacy
Prospective evaluation of radiographic manifestations of tuberculosis in relationship with CD4 count in patients with HIV/AIDS
Low prevalence of asymptomatic mpox in populations at high risk
Mortality and morbidity related to hepatitis C virus infection in hospitalized adults-A propensity score matched analysis
Incidence of sexually transmitted infections and association with behavioural factors: Time-to-event analysis of a large pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) cohort
Post COVID-19 condition, work ability and occupational changes in a population-based cohort
Patient Assessment Chronic Illness Care (PACIC) and its associations with quality of life among Swiss patients with systemic sclerosis: a mixed methods study
Exploring group differences in the response to a sexual risk reduction intervention to prevent hepatitis C virus reinfection in HIV-infected MSM: a mixed-methods study
The Ready-To-Go Questionnaire predicts health outcomes during travel: a smartphone application-based analysis
Sexual Behaviour and STI Incidence in Sexually Active MSM Living With HIV in Times of COVID-19
Building clinical pharmacology laboratory capacity in low- and middle-income countries: Experience from Uganda
Factors Associated With COVID-19 Non-Vaccination in Switzerland: A Nationwide Study
Longitudinal humoral and cell-mediated immune responses in a population-based cohort in Zurich, Switzerland between March and June 2022 - evidence for protection against Omicron SARS-CoV-2 infection by neutralizing antibodies and spike-specific T-cell responses
Chikungunya: risks for travellers
Three novel pentavalent meningococcal vaccines
Travel vaccines-priorities determined by incidence and impact

2022

Ready-To-Go Questionnaire - Development and validation of a novel medical pre-travel risk stratification tool
New microbes, new infections, new editor, new directions
Discontinuing atovaquone/proguanil prophylaxis ad-hoc post-exposure and during-travel dose-sparing prophylactic regimens against P. falciparum malaria: An update with pointers for future research
Tafenoquine for malaria chemoprophylaxis - Status quo 2022
Imported malaria in Switzerland, (1990-2019): A retrospective analysis
Primaquine and the power of adherence in radical cure

2021

Ayahuasca and the traveller: A scoping review of risks and possible benefits
NO TIME TO DIE ? Could pre-travel health advice help Bond to live another day?
TOURIST2 – Tracking of urgent risks in swiss travellers to the 6 main travel destinations – Feasibility and ethical considerations of a smartphone application-based study
Mobile apps for travel medicine and ethical considerations: A systematic review
Variants, vaccines and vaccination passports: Challenges and chances for travel medicine in 2021
Efficacy and safety of tafenoquine for malaria chemoprophylaxis (1998-2020): A systematic review and meta-analysis

2020

Travel restrictions and lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic-impact on notified infectious diseases in Switzerland
Can dengue virus be sexually transmitted?
Travel patterns, risk behaviour and health problems of travellers with rheumatic diseases compared to controls: A multi-centre, observational study
Self-diagnosis and self-treatment of Plasmodium spp. infection by travellers (1989–2019): A systematic review and meta-analysis
Rising temperature and its impact on receptivity to malaria transmission in Europe: A systematic review
Repurposing antimalarials and other drugs for COVID-19
Travel-related infections presenting in Europe: A 20-year analysis of EuroTravNet surveillance data
Epidemiological and Clinical Characteristics of International Travelers with Enteric Fever and Antibiotic Resistance Profiles of Their Isolates: a GeoSentinel Analysis
Body temperature screening to identify SARS-CoV-2 infected young adult travellers is ineffective
Imported Malaria in Countries where Malaria Is Not Endemic: a Comparison of Semi-immune and Nonimmune Travelers
Going global - Travel and the 2019 novel coronavirus
The next big threat to global health? 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV): What advice can we give to travellers? - Interim recommendations January 2020, from the Latin-American society for Travel Medicine (SLAMVI)
Traveller exposures to animals: a GeoSentinel analysis
One-week, two-visit, double-dose, intra-dermal (22ID) rabies vaccination schedule for travelers: Time/dose sparing, effective but "off label"
Travel-associated chikungunya acquired in Myanmar in 2019
Atovaquone/proguanil for malaria chemoprophylaxis - Could a difference in susceptibility during hepatic development explain the need to continue drug intake for 7 days post-exposure?
Complex choices: Which malaria chemoprophylaxis can be recommended for the pregnant traveller?

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