The Travel and Tropical Medicine Manual, 5th Edition

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.

Review: -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

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