Introduction — This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.
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Links to related guidelines are provided separately:
●(See "Society guideline links: Bacterial meningitis in adults" and "Society guideline links: Bacterial meningitis in infants and children".)
●(See "Society guideline links: Hepatitis B vaccination" and "Society guideline links: Prevention of hepatitis B virus and hepatitis C virus infection among health care providers" and "Society guideline links: Hepatitis B infection in solid organ transplant candidates and recipients" and "Society guideline links: Diagnosis of hepatitis B" and "Society guideline links: Management of hepatitis B".)
●(See "Society guideline links: Infectious encephalitis".)
●(See "Society guideline links: Malaria".)
●(See "Society guideline links: Meningococcal infection".)
●(See "Society guideline links: Rabies".)
International
●World Health Organization (WHO): Travel and health
•International Travel and Health – Vaccine-preventable diseases and vaccines, 2019 update (published 2020)
•Advice for international travel in relation to measles (2019)
•Position paper on rabies vaccines (2018)
•Position paper on typhoid vaccines (2018)
•Position paper on hepatitis B vaccines (2017)
•Position paper on Japanese encephalitis vaccines (2015)
•Position paper on vaccines and vaccination against yellow fever (2013)
•Position paper on hepatitis A vaccines (2012)
Canada
●Committee to Advise on Tropical Medicine and Travel (CATMAT): Statements and recommendations
●Canadian Paediatric Society (CPS): Position statement update on invasive meningococcal vaccination for Canadian children and youth (2018, updated 2020)
●Choosing Wisely Canada: Don't prescribe prophylactic antibiotics to prevent travellers' diarrhea (2020)
●CPS: Practice point on fever in the returning child traveller – Highlights for health care providers (2018)
United States
●Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP): Vaccine recommendations and guidelines
•Cholera vaccine recommendations
•Hepatitis A vaccine recommendations
•Hepatitis B vaccine recommendations
•Japanese encephalitis vaccine recommendations
•Meningococcal vaccine recommendations
•Rabies vaccine recommendations
•Typhoid vaccine recommendations
•Yellow fever vaccine recommendations
●Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Travelers' health – Clinician resources
●American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP): Red Book – International travel (2021)
●CDC: Yellow Book – Health Information for International Travel 2020 (published 2019)
●IDSA: Clinical practice guideline for vaccination of the immunocompromised host (ARCHIVED; published 2013)
Europe
●European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC): Vaccine scheduler
United Kingdom
●Public Health England (PHE): Guidelines for malaria prevention in travellers from the UK (2014, updated 2021)
●PHE: The Green Book (2013, updated 2020)
Australia–New Zealand