“In the globally connected world of the 21st Century, the lines of travel and tropical medicine are blurred. Immigrants and refugees, displaced and discarded in their own world, may turn up on your doorstep in the first world as tropical medicine patients, whereas soldiers and humanitarian workers may present in the developing world with clinical presentations confusing to those used to caring for local populations. The same infectious agent can lead to dramatically different diseases, depending on the background immunity of the host, access to timely care, and the pathogen load in the body. This book will help us all to see the differences.” - Alan Magill MD, FACP, FIDSA, Director, Division of Experimental Therapeutics, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research; President, International Society of Travel Medicine (ISTM), 2009-2011
Covering all the major tropical diseases that present a health risk to travelers, this book is an invaluable resource for all practitioners who encounter the post travel patient. With emphasis on clinical signs, diagnosis and treatment, it is the first book to summarize the knowledge of post travel presentations in the otherwise non-immune and non-endemic population and will aid clinicians to evaluate travelers’ symptoms.
The book is divided into three parts. The first is an overview of key aspects of travel medicine; the second contains a detailed discussion of multiple viral, bacterial and parasitic infections. The third part provides a syndromic approach to patients with common travel complaints such as diarrhea, fever and respiratory infections. It also includes useful appendices with lists of anti-parasitic drugs and available diagnostic tests.
