The Travel and Tropical Medicine Manual
Edited by- Elaine Jong, MD, Clinical Professor of Medicine; Director, Hall Health Primary Care Center; Medical Director, UW Campus Health Services; Director Emeritus, UW Travel & Tropical Medicine Clinic, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA
- Christopher Sanford, MD,MPH,DTM&H, Co-Director, University of Washington Travel Clinic at Hall Health Center; Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
- Elaine Jong
- Christopher Sanford, MD,MPH,DTM&H, Co-Director, University of Washington Travel Clinic at Hall Health Center; Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Heres a handy, portable guide to preventing, evaluating, and managing diseases that can be acquired in tropical environments and foreign countries! Whether youre 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 beforeincluding 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, youll have all the information you need to avoid, recognize, and treat illnesses acquired away from home in a convenient, pocket size guide.
Audience
Infectious Disease Specialists, Family Practitioners and Internists
Paperback, 688 Pages
Published: August 2008
Imprint: Saunders
ISBN: 978-1-4160-2613-6
Contents
- Section 1: Pre-Travel Advice
01 Approach to Travel Medicine and a Personal Travel Medicine Kit
02 Urban Medicine: Threats to Health of Travelers to Developing World Cities
03 Emerging Diseases and the International Traveler
04 Air Carrier Issues in Travel Medicine
05 Immunizations For Travelers
06 Malaria Prevention
07 Travelers Diarrhea: Prevention & Self-Treatment
08 Water Disinfection
09 Motion, Cold and Heat Disorders
Section 2: Advice for Special Travelers
10 Altitude Illness
11 Diving Medicine
12 Travel Advice for Pediatrics Travelers: Infants, Children and Adolescents
13 Advice for Women Travelers
14 Travel & HIV Infection
15 Travel with Chronic Medical Conditions
16 Pre-Travel Risk Assessment & Health Advice for Missionaries and Other Long-Term Expatriate Volunteers
17 The Business Expatriate
18 Health Screening in Immigrants, Refugees and International Adoptees
Section 3: Fever
19 Malaria Diagnosis & Treatment
20 Travel-Acquired Illnesses Associated with Fever
21 Viral Hepatitis in Travelers and Immigrants
22 Leptospirosis
23 Lyme Disease
24 Tuberculosis in Travelers and Immigrants
25 Chagas Disease
26 African Trypanosomiasis (African Sleeping Sickness)
Section 4: Diarrhea
27 Approach to Diarrhea in Returned Travelers
28 Amebiasis, Giardiasis and Other Intestinal Protozoan Infections
29 Food Poisoning: Toxic Syndromes
30 Fish and Shellfish Poisoning: Toxic Syndromes
Section 5: Skin Lesions
31 Approach to Tropical Dermatology
32 Acute Skin Reactions and Bacterial Infections
33 Ectoparasites, Cutaneous Parasites, and Cnidarian Envenomation
34 Fungal Skin Infections
35 Leishmaniasis
36 Leprosy (Hansens Disease)
Section 6: Sexually Transmitted Diseases
37 Sexually transmitted Infections and Foreign Travel
38 Gonococcal and Chlamydial Genital Infections and Pelvic Inflammatory Disease
39 Syphilis
40 Genital Ulcer Disease
Section 7: Worms
41 Common Intestinal Roundworms
42 Cestodes: Intestinal and Extraintestinal Tapeworms Infections, including Echinococcocis and Cysticercosis
43 Filarial Infections
44 Trematodes
45 The Eosinophilic Patient with Suspected Parasite Infection
