Publications

Eperon G, Veit O, Antonini P, Fehr J, Haller S, Hatz C, Landry P, Neumayr A, Niederer-Lohrer A, Schlagenhauf P, De Vallière S, Staehelin C, Swiss Expert Committee on Travel Medicine (ECTM). Vaccination against dengue fever for travellers. Swiss Med Wkly. 2024;154:3858. DOI: 10.57187/s.3858

Farnham A, Veit O, Hatz C, Fehr J, Baroutsou V, Puhan M.A, Bühler S. Travel to malaria-endemic areas: using digital geo-location to assess potential exposure risks and health behaviours. J Travel Med. 2024(in press). DOI: 10.1093/jtm/taae141

McGuinness S.L, Veit O, Angelin M, Antonini P, Boecken G, Boering M, Bühler S, Calleri G, Éperon G, Flaherty G, Gossner C, Askling H.H, Holmberg V, Kuenzli E, Landry P, Lefevre E, Libman M, Longley N, Maniewski-Kelner U, Neumayr A, Rapp C, Ridpath A.D, Rodriguez N, Rosdahl A, Rosenbusch D, Rossanese A, Rothe C, Schlagenhauf P, Soentjens P, Staehelin C, Visser J, Visser L, Wagner A, Walker A, Wiedermann U, Wroczynska A, Hatz C. Streamlining malaria prevention recommendations for travellers: current and future approaches. J Travel Med. 2024(in press). DOI: 10.1093/jtm/taae113

Saxer F, Hatz C, Vach W, PROFI Study Group. Waiting for surgery after hip fracture-Health and/or economic risk?. Int J Health Plann Manage. 2024(in press). DOI: 10.1002/hpm.3851

Veit O, Maniewski U, Rothe C, Eperon G, Boering M, Alcedo S, Boecken G, Ramharter M, Schel N, Soentjens P, Staehelin C, van Vugt M, Weitzel T, Visser L.G, Schlagenhauf P, Hatz C, Neumayr A. Methodology of the joint malaria prevention recommendations of Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands. J Travel Med. 2024(in press). DOI: 10.1093/jtm/taae129

Alberer M, Moe C.L, Hatz C, Kling K, Kirby A.E, Lindsay L, Nothdurft H.D, Riera-Montes M, Steffen R, Verstraeten T, Wu H.M, DuPont H.L. Norovirus acute gastroenteritis among US and European travellers to areas of moderate to high risk of travellers' diarrhoea: a prospective cohort study. J Travel Med. 2023;30:1-11. DOI: 10.1093/jtm/taad051

Alberer M, Moe C.L, Hatz C, Kling K, Kirby A.E, Lindsay L, Nothdurft H.D, Riera-Montes M, Steffen R, Verstraeten T, Wu H.M, DuPont H.L. Correction to: Norovirus acute gastroenteritis amongst US and European travellers to areas of moderate to high risk of travellers' diarrhoea: a prospective cohort study. J Travel Med. 2023;30(6):taad076. DOI: 10.1093/jtm/taad076

Maier J.D, Anagnostopoulos A, Gazzotti A, Bühler S, Baroutsou V, Hatz C, Puhan M.A, Fehr J, Farnham A. The Ready-to-Go questionnaire predicts health outcomes during travel: a smartphone application-based analysis. J Travel Med. 2023;30(8):taad117. DOI: 10.1093/jtm/taad117

WorldWide Antimalarial Resistance Network - White Blood Cell Count in Malaria Study Group. Variability in white blood cell count during uncomplicated malaria and implications for parasite density estimation: a WorldWide Antimalarial Resistance Network individual patient data meta-analysis. Malar J. 2023;22:174. DOI: 10.1186/s12936-023-04583-6

Farnham A, Baroutsou V, Hatz C, Fehr J, Kuenzli E, Blanke U, Puhan M.A, Bühler S. Travel behaviours and health outcomes during travel: profiling destination-specific risks in a prospective mHealth cohort of Swiss travellers. Travel Med Infect Dis. 2022;47:102294. DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2022.102294

Gazzotti A, de Crom-Beer S, Haller S, Hasler T, Anagnostopoulos A, Hatz C, Fehr J.S. Ready-to-go questionnaire - development and validation of a novel medical pre-travel risk stratification tool. Travel Med Infect Dis. 2022;47:102304. DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2022.102304

Grolimund C.M, Bärenbold O, Hatz C.F, Vennervald B.J, Mayombana C, Mshinda H, Utzinger J, Vounatsou P. Infection intensity-dependent accuracy of reagent strip for the diagnosis of Schistosoma haematobium and estimation of treatment prevalence thresholds. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2022;16(4):e0010332. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0010332

Mischlinger J, Jaeger V.K, Ciurea A, Gabay C, Hasler P, Mueller R.B, Siegrist C.A, Villiger P, Walker U.A, Hatz C, Bühler S. Long-term persistence of antibodies after diphtheria/tetanus vaccination in immunosuppressed patients with inflammatory rheumatic diseases and healthy controls. Vaccine. 2022;40(33):4897-4904. DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2022.06.013

Weisser M, Rohacek M, Ndege R, Luoga E, Katende A, Mollel G.J, Gingo W, Vanobberghen F, Paris D.H, Hatz C, Battegay M, on behalf of the Kiularco Study Group. The Chronic Diseases Clinic of Ifakara (CDCI): establishing a model clinic for chronic care delivery in rural sub-Saharan Africa. Diseases. 2022;10(4):72. DOI: 10.3390/diseases10040072

WorldWide Antimalarial Resistance Network - Falciparum Haematology Study Group. Haematological consequences of acute uncomplicated falciparum malaria: a WorldWide Antimalarial Resistance Network pooled analysis of individual patient data. BMC Med. 2022;20:85. DOI: 10.1186/s12916-022-02265-9

Baerlocher S, Helfenstein S, Mahr A, Crippa S, Garcia Boy R, Kahlert C.R, Yurttas T, Hatz C, Kohler P. Leptospirosis followed by Kawasaki-like disease: case report from an adult Swiss patient and review of the literature. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2021;8(4):ofab088. DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofab088

Baroutsou V, Hatz C, Blanke U, Haile S.R, Fehr J, Neumayr A, Puhan M.A, Bühler S. TOURIST2 - tracking of urgent risks in Swiss travellers to the 6 main travel destinations - feasibility and ethical considerations of a smartphone application-based study. Travel Med Infect Dis. 2021;39:101912. DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2020.101912

Hodel N.C, Hamad A, Reither K, Kasella I.M, Abdulla S, Schoetzau A, Hatz C.F.R, Mayr M. Comparison of two different semiquantitative urinary dipstick tests with albumin-to-creatinine ratio for screening and classification of albuminuria according to KDIGO. A diagnostic test study. Diagnostics. 2021;11(1):81. DOI: 10.3390/diagnostics11010081

Kantele A, Kuenzli E, Dunn S.J, Dance D.A.B, Newton P.N, Davong V, Mero S, Pakkanen S.H, Neumayr A, Hatz C, Snaith A, Kallonen T, Corander J, McNally A. Dynamics of intestinal multidrug-resistant bacteria colonisation contracted by visitors to a high-endemic setting: a prospective, daily, real-time sampling study. Lancet Microbe. 2021;2(4):e151-e158. DOI: 10.1016/S2666-5247(20)30224-X

Moser A.I, Kuenzli E, Budel T, Campos-Madueno E.I, Bernasconi O.J, DeCrom-Beer S, Jakopp B, Mohammed A.H, Hassan N.K, Fehr J, Zinsstag J, Hatz C, Endimiani A. Travellers returning from the island of Zanzibar colonized with MDR Escherichia coli strains: assessing the impact of local people and other sources. J Antimicrob Chemother. 2021;76(2):330-337. DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkaa457

Moser A.I, Kuenzli E, Campos-Madueno E.I, Büdel T, Rattanavong S, Vongsouvath M, Hatz C, Endimiani A. Antimicrobial-resistant Escherichia coli strains and their plasmids in people, poultry, and chicken meat in Laos. Front Microbiol. 2021;12:708182. DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.708182

Neumayr A, Schunk M, Theunissen C, Van Esbroeck M, Mechain M, Hatz C, Morch K, Soriano Perez M.J, Sydow V, Sothmann P, Kuenzli E, Rothe C, Bottieau E. Efficacy and tolerability of quinacrine monotherapy and albendazole plus chloroquine combination therapy in nitroimidazole-refractory giardiasis: a TropNet study. Clin Infect Dis. 2021;73(8):1517-1523. DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciab513

Vignier N, Bouchaud O, Angheben A, Bottieau E, Calleri G, Salas-Coronas J, Martin C, Ramos J.M, Mechain M, Rapp C, Nothdurft H.D, Velasco M, Bardaji A, Rojo-Marcos G, Visser L.G, Hatz C, Bisoffi Z, Jelinek T, Duparc S, Bourhis Y, Tommasini S, Iannucelli M, Bacchieri A, Mattera G.G, Merlo Pich E, Behrens R.H. Longitudinal study based on a safety registry for malaria patients treated with artenimol-piperaquine in six European countries. Malar J. 2021;20:214. DOI: 10.1186/s12936-021-03750-x

Büdel T, Kuenzli E, Campos-Madueno E.I, Mohammed A.H, Hassan N.K, Zinsstag J, Hatz C, Endimiani A. On the island of Zanzibar people in the community are frequently colonized with the same MDR Enterobacterales found in poultry and retailed chicken meat. J Antimicrob Chemother. 2020;75(9):2432-2441. DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkaa198

Buhler S, Jaeger V.K, Eperon G, Furrer H, Fux C.A, Jansen S, Neumayr A, Rochat L, Schmid S, Schmidt-Chanasit J, Staehelin C, de Visser A.W, Visser L.G, Niedrig M, Hatz C. Safety and immunogenicity of a primary yellow fever vaccination under low-dose methotrexate therapy-a prospective multi-centre pilot study. J Travel Med. 2020;27(6):taaa126. DOI: 10.1093/jtm/taaa126

Burkhard J, Ciurea A, Gabay C, Hasler P, Muller R, Niedrig M, Fehr J, Villiger P, Visser L.G, de Visser A.W, Walker U.A, Hatz C, Buhler S. Long-term immunogenicity after yellow fever vaccination in immunosuppressed and healthy individuals. Vaccine. 2020;38(19):3610-3617. DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2019.12.042

Endimiani A, Bernasconi O.J, Büdel T, Campos-Madueno E.I, Kuenzli E, Hatz C, Carattoli A. Whole-genome characterization of a Shewanella algae strain co-harboring bla CTX-M-15 and armA genes on a novel IncC plasmid. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2020;64(5):e00267-20. DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00267-20

Hatz C, Bühler S, Farnham A. The COVID-19 pandemic offers a key moment to reflect on travel medicine practice. J Travel Med. 2020;27(8):taaa149. DOI: 10.1093/jtm/taaa149

Hodel N.C, Hamad A, Reither K, Mwangoka G, Kasella I, Praehauser C, Abdulla S, Hatz C.F.R, Mayr M. Assessment of diabetes and prediabetes prevalence and predictors by HbA1c in a population from sub-Saharan Africa with a high proportion of anemia: a prospective cross-sectional study. BMJ Open Diabetes Res Care. 2020;8(1):e000939. DOI: 10.1136/bmjdrc-2019-000939

Lingscheid T, Kurth F, Stegemann M.S, Clerinx J, Calleri G, Rothe C, Angheben A, Gobbi F, Bisoffi Z, Hamer D.H, Libman M, Hatz C, Zoller T. Outpatient treatment of imported uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria: results from a survey among TropNet and GeoSentinel experts for tropical medicine. J Travel Med. 2020;27(4):taaa082. DOI: 10.1093/jtm/taaa082

Schmid N, Ciurea A, Gabay C, Hasler P, Fehr J, Müller R, Villiger P, Walker U, Hatz C, Bühler S. Travel patterns, risk behaviour and health problems of travellers with rheumatic diseases compared to controls: a multi-centre, observational study. Travel Med Infect Dis. 2020;38:101818. DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2020.101818

Albrecht S, Franzeck F.C, Mapesi H, Hatz C, Kalinjuma A.V, Glass T.R, Mnzava D, Letang E, Paris D.H, Battegay M, Weisser M, KIULARCO Study Group. Age-related comorbidities and mortality in people living with HIV in rural Tanzania: data from a prospective cohort study. AIDS. 2019;33(6):1031-1041. DOI: 10.1097/QAD.0000000000002171

Antonini P, Beck B, Chappuis F, Eperon F, Etter H, Fehr J, Furrer H, Genton B, Hatz C, Landry P, Neumayr A, Niederer-Loher A, Paris D, Schlagenhauf P, Staehelin C, Stoeckle M, De Vallière S, Veit O. Reisemedizin: Impfungen und Malariaschutz bei Auslandreisen. Empfehlungen Stand Juni 2019. Bull BAG. 2019;30:14-53

Budel T, Künzli E, Clement M, Bernasconi O.J, Fehr J, Mohammed A.H, Hassan N.K, Zinsstag J, Hatz C, Endimiani A. Polyclonal gut colonization with extended-spectrum cephalosporin- and/or colistin-resistant Enterobacteriaceae: a normal status for hotel employees on the island of Zanzibar, Tanzania. J Antimicrob Chemother. 2019;74(10):2880-2890. DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkz296

Bühler S, Jaeger V.K, Adler S, Bannert B, Brümmerhoff C, Ciurea A, Distler O, Franz J, Gabay C, Hagenbuch N, Herzog C, Hasler P, Kling K, Kyburz D, Müller R, Nissen M.J, Siegrist C.A, Villiger P.M, Walker U.A, Hatz C. Safety and immunogenicity of tetanus/diphtheria vaccination in patients with rheumatic diseases - a prospective multi-centre cohort study. Rheumatology (Oxford). 2019;58(9):1585-1596. DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/kez045

Faini D, Kalinjuma A.V, Katende A, Mbwaji G, Mnzava D, Nyuri A, Glass T.R, Furrer H, Hatz C, Boulware D.R, Letang E, Kiularco Study Group. Laboratory-reflex cryptococcal antigen screening is associated with a survival benefit in Tanzania. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2019;80(2):205-213. DOI: 10.1097/QAI.0000000000001899

Künzli E, Budel T, Bernasconi O.J, Schlagenhauf P, Florek P, Gultekin N, Hatz C, Endimiani A. Intestinal colonization with multidrug-resistant enterobacteriaceae: screening of Swiss military deployed to Kosovo. J Glob Antimicrob Resist. 2019;19:93-95. DOI: 10.1016/j.jgar.2019.08.027

Künzli E, Jaeger V.K, DeCrom S, Sydow V, Muigg V, Frei R, Egli A, Fehr J, Hatz C. Impact of alcohol-based hand-gel sanitizer and hand hygiene advice on travellers' diarrhoea and colonization with extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Enterobacteriaceae: a randomised, controlled trial. Travel Med Infect Dis. 2019;32:101475. DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2019.101475

McHomvu E, Mbunda G, Simon N, Kitila F, Temba Y, Msumba I, Namamba J, Kilindimo S, Mgubike H, Gingo W, Hatz C, Paris D.H, Weisser M, Rohacek M. Diagnoses made in an emergency department in rural sub-Saharan Africa. Swiss Med Wkly. 2019;149:w20018. DOI: 10.4414/smw.2019.20018

Neumayr A, Staehelin C, Künzli E, Hatz C. Arguments for a two-dose yellow fever vaccination regimen in travellers. J Travel Med. 2019;26(6):taz004. DOI: 10.1093/jtm/taz004