Prevention of Infectious Diseases in Athletes
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Summary
Preventive strategies for infectious disease in athletes are reviewed, including immunization recommendations and prophylaxis guidelines, improvements in personal hygiene and prevention of spread of infectious organisms by direct contact, insect-borne disease precautions, and Prevention of sexually transmitted diseases.
- Type
- review
- Published
- 2007-07-01
- Cited by
- 31
- References
- 89
- Access
- Open access
- OpenAlex
- https://openalex.org/W2074054865
- Semantic Scholar
- https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:20347993
Keywords
Medicine, Infectious disease (medical specialty), Athletes, Meningococcal disease, Communicable disease
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Cited by
- Sports injuries and illnesses during the European Youth Olympic Festival 2013
- Infectious Disease in Athletes
- Public Health Recommendations for Athletes Attending Sporting Events
- The International Olympic Committee (IOC) Consensus Statement on periodic health evaluation of elite athletes March 2009
- National athletic trainers' association position statement: skin diseases.
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- Febrile Illness in the Athlete
- Role of Nasal Staphylococcus aureus Carriage in Transmission among Contact Athletes
- Pertussis outbreak in Polish shooters with adverse event analysis
- Foodborne Illness Outbreak Investigation in a High-Profile Sports Club
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- Attitudes of elite athletes and their support staff to the influenza vaccine
- Tetanus Vaccination Status and Vaccine Hesitancy in Amateur Basketball Players (Italy, 2020)
- Sports Injury and Illness Epidemiology: Thailand Team Surveillance During the 30th Southeast Asian Games
- The International Olympic Committee (IOC) consensus statement on periodic health evaluation of elite athletes: March 2009.
- Common Sports Infectious Disease
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