The Travel and Tropical Medicine Manual
Saunders (Verlag)
978-1-4160-2613-6 (ISBN)
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Here's a handy, portable guide to preventing, evaluating, and managing diseases that can be acquired in tropical environments and foreign countries! Whether you're a physician, traveler, or both, this respected manual is your perfect source for quick, easy access to the latest travel medicine information. New updates and additional material are presented in a sleek new design that offers rapid access to the content you need. The fourth edition features more critical content than ever before-including new evidence-based recommendations and new maps and illustrations. From pre-travel advice and immunizations to the diagnosis and treatment of a full range of travel-related illnesses, you'll have all the information you need to avoid, recognize, and treat illnesses acquired away from home in a convenient, pocket size guide.
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
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 5.8.2008 |
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| Zusatzinfo | illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Philadelphia |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 197 x 240 mm |
| Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Allgemeinmedizin |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Mikrobiologie / Infektologie / Reisemedizin | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4160-2613-4 / 1416026134 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4160-2613-6 / 9781416026136 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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