The travel and tropical medicine manual
Sanford, Christopher
The travel and tropical medicine manual - 5th ed. - Edinburgh : Elsevier, 2017 - 1 online resource (xiv, 614 pages):color illustrations, color map
Approach to travel medicine and contents of a personal travel medicine kit -- Urban medicine : threats to travelers to cities in low-income nations -- Emerging infectious diseases and the international traveler -- Jet health -- Immunizations for travelers -- Malaria prevention -- Water disinfection -- Traveler's diarrhea : prevention and self-treatment -- Disequilibrium : jet lag, motion sickness, cold exposure, and heat illness -- High-altitude travel -- Dive medicine -- Travel advice for pediatric travelers -- Students traveling abroad -- Advice for women travelers -- The immunocompromised traveler -- Travel with chronic medical conditions -- Travel and mental health -- Pre-travel assessment and advice for expatriates and volunteers -- Health screening in immigrants, refugees, and international adoptees -- Travel-acquired illnesses associated with fever -- Malaria diagnosis and treatment -- Viral hepatitis in travelers and immigrants -- Leptospirosis -- Lyme disease -- Tuberculosis in travelers and immigrants -- Chagas disease -- Human African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness) -- Ebola virus disease and hemorrhagic fevers -- Antibiotic-resistant bacteria in returning travelers -- The role of point-of-care testing in travel medicine -- Approach to diarrhea in returned travelers -- Amebiasis, giardiasis, and other intestinal protozoan infections -- Food poisoning : toxic syndromes -- Fish and shellfish poisoning : toxic syndromes -- 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 infections and foreign travel -- Gonococcal and chlamydial genital infections and pelvic inflammatory disease -- Syphilis -- Genital ulcer disease -- Common intestinal roundworms -- Cestodes : intestinal and extraintestinal tapeworm infections, including echinococcosis and cysticercosis -- Filarial infections -- Trematodes -- The eosinophilic patient with suspected parasitic infection."
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The travel and tropical medicine manual - 5th ed. - Edinburgh : Elsevier, 2017 - 1 online resource (xiv, 614 pages):color illustrations, color map
Approach to travel medicine and contents of a personal travel medicine kit -- Urban medicine : threats to travelers to cities in low-income nations -- Emerging infectious diseases and the international traveler -- Jet health -- Immunizations for travelers -- Malaria prevention -- Water disinfection -- Traveler's diarrhea : prevention and self-treatment -- Disequilibrium : jet lag, motion sickness, cold exposure, and heat illness -- High-altitude travel -- Dive medicine -- Travel advice for pediatric travelers -- Students traveling abroad -- Advice for women travelers -- The immunocompromised traveler -- Travel with chronic medical conditions -- Travel and mental health -- Pre-travel assessment and advice for expatriates and volunteers -- Health screening in immigrants, refugees, and international adoptees -- Travel-acquired illnesses associated with fever -- Malaria diagnosis and treatment -- Viral hepatitis in travelers and immigrants -- Leptospirosis -- Lyme disease -- Tuberculosis in travelers and immigrants -- Chagas disease -- Human African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness) -- Ebola virus disease and hemorrhagic fevers -- Antibiotic-resistant bacteria in returning travelers -- The role of point-of-care testing in travel medicine -- Approach to diarrhea in returned travelers -- Amebiasis, giardiasis, and other intestinal protozoan infections -- Food poisoning : toxic syndromes -- Fish and shellfish poisoning : toxic syndromes -- 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 infections and foreign travel -- Gonococcal and chlamydial genital infections and pelvic inflammatory disease -- Syphilis -- Genital ulcer disease -- Common intestinal roundworms -- Cestodes : intestinal and extraintestinal tapeworm infections, including echinococcosis and cysticercosis -- Filarial infections -- Trematodes -- The eosinophilic patient with suspected parasitic infection."
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