The Travel and Tropical Medicine Manual
- 5th Edition - August 7, 2016
- Latest edition
- Authors: Christopher A. Sanford, Elaine C. Jong, Paul S. Pottinger
- Language: English
Prevent, evaluate, and manage diseases that can be acquired in tropical environments and foreign countries with The Travel and Tropical Medicine Manual. This pragmatic, pocke… Read more
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Description
Prevent, evaluate, and manage diseases that can be acquired in tropical environments and foreign countries with The Travel and Tropical Medicine Manual. This pragmatic, pocket-sized resource equips medical providers with the knowledge they need to offer effective aid, covering key topics in pre- and post-travel medicine, caring for immigrants and refugees, and working in low-resource settings. It's also the perfect source for travelers seeking quick, easy access to the latest travel medicine information.
Key features
Key features
- Dynamic images illustrate key concepts for an enhanced visual understanding
- Evidence-based treatment recommendations enable you to manage diseases confidently
- Pocket-sized format provides access to need-to-know information quickly and easily
Readership
Readership
Table of contents
Table of contents
1. Approach to Travel Medicine and a Personal Travel Medicine Kit
2. Urban Medicine: Threats to Health of Travelers to Developing World Cities
3. Emerging Diseases and the International Traveler
4. Air Carrier Issues in Travel Medicine
5. Immunizations For Travelers
6. Malaria Prevention
7. Traveler’s Diarrhea: Prevention & Self-Treatment
8. Water Disinfection
9. 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 and HIV Infection
15. Travel with Chronic Medical Conditions
16. Pre-Travel Risk Assessment and 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
Review quotes
Review quotes
"a concise yet comprehensive guide covering a wide spectrum of knowledge across disciplines. It is a useful resource for all health professionals who are involved in travel health.
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
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 5
- Latest edition
- Published: August 7, 2016
- Language: English
About the authors
About the authors
CS
Christopher A. Sanford
EJ
Elaine C. Jong
PP