Read more
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.
- 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.
- Expert Consult eBook version included with purchase. This enhanced eBook experience allows you to search all of the text, figures, images, and references from the book on a variety of devices.
- Evidence-based appendix, available at Expert Consult, helps to validate treatments.
- Highlights new evidence and content surrounding mental health and traveling.
- Covers emerging hot topics such as Ebola virus disease, viral hemorrhagic fevers, the role of point-of-care testing in travel medicine, and antibiotic-resistant bacteria in returning travelers and students traveling abroad.
- Includes an enhanced drug appendix in the back of the book.
List 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
07Traveler's Diarrhea: Prevention & Self-Treatment
08Water Disinfection
09Motion, Cold and Heat Disorders
Section 2: Advice for Special Travelers'
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
25Chagas' 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 (Hansen's 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
Report
"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
