The Travel and Tropical Medicine Manual

by Jong, Elaine C.

• ISBN13: 9781416026136
• ISBN10: 1416026134
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-08-01
• Publisher: SAUNDERS W B CO

Summary

Here's a handy, portable guide to preventing, evaluating, and managing diseases that can be acquired in tropical environments and foreign countries! Whether you're a physician, traveler, or both, this respected manual is your perfect source for quick, easy access to the latest travel medicine information. New updates and additional material are presented in a sleek new design that offers rapid access to the content you need. The fourth edition features more critical content than ever before-including new evidence-based recommendations and new maps and illustrations. From pre-travel advice and immunizations to the diagnosis and treatment of a full range of travel-related illnesses, you'll have all the information you need to avoid, recognize, and treat illnesses acquired away from home in a convenient, pocket size guide. Illustrates key concepts with visual guidance from dynamic new images. Offers evidence-based treatment recommendations to enable you to manage diseases confidently. Provides access to need-to-know information quickly in a convenient, pocket size for excellent portability. Features the most recent developments in tropical and travel medicine to keep you current. Includes new maps and improved images to provide visual displays of the information. Highlights major issues in new chapters such as Urban Medicine: Threats to Health of Travelers to Developing World Cities; Pre-Travel Risk Assessment and Health Advice for Missionaries and Other Long-Term Expatriate Volunteers; Trematodes; and others.

Table of Contents

Pre-Travel Advice

Approach to Travel Medicine and a Personal Travel Medicine Kit

Urban Medicine: Threats to Health of Travelers to Developing World Cities

Emerging Diseases and the International Traveler

Air Carrier Issues in Travel Medicine

Immunizations For Travelers

Malaria Prevention

Traveler's Diarrhea: Prevention & Self-Treatment

Water Disinfection

Motion, Cold and Heat Disorders

Advice for Special Travelers'

Altitude Illness

Diving Medicine

Travel Advice for Pediatrics Travelers: Infants, Children and Adolescents

Advice for Women Travelers

Travel & HIV Infection

Travel with Chronic Medical Conditions

Pre-Travel Risk Assessment & Health Advice for Missionaries and Other Long-Term Expatriate Volunteers

The Business Expatriate

Health Screening in Immigrants, Refugees and International Adoptees

Fever

Malaria Diagnosis & Treatment

Travel-Acquired Illnesses Associated with Fever

Viral Hepatitis in Travelers and Immigrants

Leptospirosis

Lyme Disease

Tuberculosis in Travelers and Immigrants

Chagas' Disease

African Trypanosomiasis (African Sleeping Sickness)

Diarrhea

Approach to Diarrhea in Returned Travelers

Amebiasis, Giardiasis and Other Intestinal Protozoan Infections

Food Poisoning: Toxic Syndromes

Fish and Shellfish Poisoning: Toxic Syndromes

Skin Lesions

Approach to Tropical Dermatology

Acute Skin Reactions and Bacterial Infections

Ectoparasites, Cutaneous Parasites, and Cnidarian Envenomation

Fungal Skin Infections

Leishmaniasis

Leprosy (Hansen's Disease)

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Sexually transmitted Infections and Foreign Travel

Gonococcal and Chlamydial Genital Infections and Pelvic Inflammatory Disease

Syphilis

Genital Ulcer Disease

Worms

Common Intestinal Roundworms

Cestodes: Intestinal and Extraintestinal Tapeworms Infections, including Echinococcocis and Cysticercosis

Filarial Infections

Trematodes

The Eosinophilic Patient with Suspected Parasite Infection

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