The travel and tropical medicine manual /
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| Language: | English |
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[Philadelphia, Pa.] :
Saunders/Elsevier,
©2008.
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| Edition: | 4th ed. |
| Series: | ClinicalKey.
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Table of Contents:
- Section 1: Pre-Travel Advice
- 01Approach to Travel Medicine and a Personal Travel Medicine Kit
- 02Urban Medicine: Threats to Health of Travelers to Developing World Cities
- 03Emerging Diseases and the International Traveler
- 04Air Carrier Issues in Travel Medicine
- 05Immunizations For Travelers
- 06Malaria Prevention
- 07Traveler₂s Diarrhea: Prevention & Self-Treatment
- 08Water Disinfection
- 09Motion, Cold and Heat Disorders
- Section 2: Advice for Special Travelers₂
- 10Altitude Illness
- 11Diving Medicine
- 12Travel Advice for Pediatrics Travelers: Infants, Children and Adolescents
- 13Advice for Women Travelers
- 14Travel & HIV Infection
- 15Travel with Chronic Medical Conditions
- 16Pre-Travel Risk Assessment & Health Advice for Missionaries and Other Long-Term Expatriate Volunteers
- 17The Business Expatriate
- 18Health Screening in Immigrants, Refugees and International Adoptees
- Section 3: Fever
- 19Malaria Diagnosis & Treatment
- 20Travel-Acquired Illnesses Associated with Fever
- 21Viral Hepatitis in Travelers and Immigrants
- 22Leptospirosis
- 23Lyme Disease
- 24Tuberculosis in Travelers and Immigrants
- 25Chagas₂ Disease
- 26African Trypanosomiasis (African Sleeping Sickness)
- Section 4: Diarrhea
- 27Approach to Diarrhea in Returned Travelers
- 28Amebiasis, Giardiasis and Other Intestinal Protozoan Infections
- 29Food Poisoning: Toxic Syndromes
- 30Fish and Shellfish Poisoning: Toxic Syndromes
- Section 5: Skin Lesions
- 31Approach to Tropical Dermatology
- 32Acute Skin Reactions and Bacterial Infections
- 33Ectoparasites, Cutaneous Parasites, and Cnidarian Envenomation
- 34Fungal Skin Infections
- 35Leishmaniasis
- 36Leprosy (Hansen₂s Disease)
- Section 6: Sexually Transmitted Diseases
- 37Sexually transmitted Infections and Foreign Travel
- 38Gonococcal and Chlamydial Genital Infections and Pelvic Inflammatory Disease
- 39Syphilis
- 40Genital Ulcer Disease
- Section 7: Worms
- 41Common Intestinal Roundworms
- 42Cestodes: Intestinal and Extraintestinal Tapeworms Infections, including Echinococcocis and Cysticercosis
- 43Filarial Infections
- 44Trematodes
- 45The Eosinophilic Patient with Suspected Parasite Infection.