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Mark S Riddle, Bradley A Connor, Robert Steffen, Phyllis Kozarsky, Charles D Ericsson, Reply to ‘Travellers’ diarrhoea in children: a blind spot in the expert panel guidelines on prevention and treatment’, Journal of Travel Medicine, Volume 25, Issue 1, 2018, tax095, https://doi.org/10.1093/jtm/tax095
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In this edition of The Journal of Travel Medicine, Hagman et al.1 comment on the recent travellers’ diarrhoea guidelines published under the support of an expert panel assembled by the International Society of Travel Medicine Foundation.2 We thank the authors for their raising of an important gap in evidenced based recommendations for the paediatric travelling population.
We fully acknowledge that these guidelines do not apply to the paediatric traveller and we further support efforts by the ISTM Pediatrics Interest Group or other paediatric primary care or infectious disease societies to undertake an effort to critically appraise the current evidence—possibly launch studies to fill the gaps—and develop guidelines for the paediatric traveller which include travellers' diarrhoea as well as other important travel health considerations in this population.
Conflict of interest: The views expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the Uniformed Services University, Department of the Navy, Department of Defense, nor the US Government. This is a partial US Government work. There are no restrictions on its use. There are no financial conflicts of interests among any of the authors.