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Joseph Torresi
Researcher at University of Melbourne
Publications - 177
Citations - 7338
Joseph Torresi is an academic researcher from University of Melbourne. The author has contributed to research in topics: Hepatitis B virus & Virus. The author has an hindex of 44, co-authored 171 publications receiving 6588 citations. Previous affiliations of Joseph Torresi include Royal Melbourne Hospital & Monash University.
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GeoSentinel Surveillance of Illness in Returned Travelers, 2007–2011
Karin Leder,Joseph Torresi,Michael Libman,Jakob P. Cramer,Francesco Castelli,Patricia Schlagenhauf,Annalies Wilder-Smith,Mary E. Wilson,Jay S. Keystone,Eli Schwartz,Elizabeth D. Barnett,Frank von Sonnenburg,John S. Brownstein,Allen C. Cheng,Mark J. Sotir,Douglas H. Esposito,David O. Freedman +16 more
TL;DR: Clinicians can use these 5-year GeoSentinel data to help tailor more efficient pretravel preparation strategies and evaluate possible differential diagnoses of ill returned travelers according to destination and reason for travel.
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Illness in travelers visiting friends and relatives: a review of the GeoSentinel Surveillance Network.
Charles D. Ericsson,C. Hatz,Karin Leder,Karin Leder,Steven Y. C. Tong,Leisa H. Weld,Kevin C. Kain,Annelies Wilder-Smith,Frank von Sonnenburg,Jim Black,Jim Black,Graham Brown,Graham Brown,Joseph Torresi,Joseph Torresi +14 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined GeoSentinel data to compare travel characteristics and illnesses acquired by three groups of travelers to low-income countries: VFRs who had originally been immigrants (immigrants), VFR who had not originally been immigrators (traveler VFR), and tourist travelers.
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Malaria in travelers: a review of the GeoSentinel surveillance network.
Karin Leder,Jim Black,Daniel P O'Brien,Zoe Greenwood,Kevin C. Kain,Kevin C. Kain,Eli Schwartz,Eli Schwartz,Graham Brown,Graham Brown,Joseph Torresi,Joseph Torresi +11 more
TL;DR: Patients with malaria had traveled to sub-Saharan Africa more often, were more commonly visiting friends/relatives, had traveled for longer periods, presented sooner after return, wereMore likely to have a fever at presentation, and were lesslikely to have had a pretravel encounter.
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Vitamin D Deficiency Is Associated with Tuberculosis and Latent Tuberculosis Infection in Immigrants from Sub-Saharan Africa
Katherine B Gibney,Lachlan MacGregor,Karin Leder,Karin Leder,Joseph Torresi,Joseph Torresi,Caroline Marshall,Caroline Marshall,Peter R. Ebeling,Beverley-Ann Biggs,Beverley-Ann Biggs +10 more
TL;DR: Among African immigrants in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, it is demonstrated lower geometric mean vitamin D levels in immigrants with latent tuberculosis infection than in those with no Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection.
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Fever in Returned Travelers: Review of Hospital Admissions for a 3-Year Period
TL;DR: Patients admitted to a tertiary-care hospital under the care of an infectious diseases unit for management of febrile illness acquired overseas presented to hospital within 1 week of return and 96% within 6 months, with malaria the most common diagnosis.