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The Travel and Tropical Medicine Manual

  • 4 Edición - 5 de agosto de 2008
  • Última edición
  • Autores: Christopher A. Sanford, Elaine C. Jong
  • Idioma: Inglés

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,… Leer más

Descripción

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.

Puntos claves

  • 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 7 major sections, color-coded for quick answers:
    • Pre-travel Advice
    • Advice for Special Travelers
    • Fever
    • Diarrhea
    • Skin Lesions
    • Sexually Transmitted Diseases
    • Worms

De interès para

Infectious Disease Specialists, Family Practitioners and Internists

Índice

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 Traveler’s 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 (Hansen’s 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

Reseñas

"This well written manual serves as an excellent reference for many of the day-to-day issues encountered in a travel medicine practice as well as for medical providers who encounter patients with a post-travel problem. Topics are covered in more detail than in MCQs in Travel and Tropical Medicine: A Primer Of Travel Medicine, Colbert (iUniverse, 2006). The fourth edition has updated many chapters with new information and evidence-based recommendations." – Doody’s - 4 Stars - ****

"An excellent, concise resource that provides practical information to travel and tropical medicine specialists, health care personnel who work with immigrant and refugee health, and primary care providers in internal medicine, family medicine, and pediatrics. The manual has relevant information for providers around the world, not just North America…The excellent, detailed sections on pretravel consultations and the evaluation of fever and skin lesions in returning travelers as well as parasitic infections make this book a miniature, highly concentrated opus on both travel and tropical medicine." - Clinical Infectious Diseases December 2009

Detalles del producto

  • Edición: 4
  • Última edición
  • Publicado: 8 de agosto de 2008
  • Idioma: Inglés

Sobre los autores

CS

Christopher A. Sanford

Afiliaciones y experiencia
Co-Director, University of Washington Travel Clinic at Hall Health Center; Associate Professor, Family Medicine; Associate Professor, Global Health

EJ

Elaine C. Jong

Afiliaciones y experiencia
Clinical Professor of Medicine Emeritus, Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington; Founding Director of the UW Travel and Tropical Medicine Service; Founding Director of the UW Campus Health Service

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