Travel and Tropical Medicine Manual

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. The book’s architecture has been improved, with updates and additional material, for 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, new maps and illustrations, and a new travel medicine pharmacopeia. 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.

Reviews
REVIEW OF THE LAST EDITION
"This is a great manual. There is a wealth of essential information on travel and tropical medicine in a handy sized book. Any health practitioner dealing with travelers or migrants should have a personal copy. You will also enjoy it on your own vacation!" — The Lancet

Key Features

Illustrates key concepts with visual guidance from dynamic new images.
Offers evidence-based treatment recommendations to enable you to manage diseases confidently.
Includes a special chapter on infectious diseases so you can enhance your knowledge of this important topic.
Provides access to need-to-know information quickly in a convenient, pocket size for excellent portability.

New to this Edition

Features the most recent developments in tropical and travel medicine to keep you current.
Includes new maps and other images to provide a better quality visual display of the information.
Presents the disease content in a new, more structured layout for improved readability and bleeds for easier access to the sections you want.
Consolidates valuable dosage and other information in a new “Drugs in Tropical and Travel Medicine” appendix.

Related Titles

Atlas of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, 6th Edition : Text with CD-ROM
Tropical Infectious Diseases, 2nd Edition : Principles, Pathogens, & Practice, 2-Volume Set with CD-ROM
AIDS Therapy e-dition, 3rd Edition : Book with Online Updates

Contents
Section I: Pre – Travel Advice
1. Medical Approach to Traveling Patients
2. Air Carrier Health Issues
3. Emerging Infectious Diseases and Travel
4. Travel Immunizations
5. Malaria Prevention
6. Traveler’s Diarrhea: Prevention and Self Treatment
7. Water Disinfection
8. Jet Lag, Motion Sickness, and Heat Illness
Section II: Advice For Special Travelers
9. Altitude Illness
10. Diving Medicine
11. Travel Advice for Infants and Children
12. Travel Advice for Women
13. Travel with Chronic Medical Conditions
14. Travel and HIV Infection
15. The Business Expatriate
16. Immigrants, Refugees, and Orphans
Section III - A: Fever
17. Malaria Diagnosis and Treatment
18. Fever in Returned Travelers
19. Acute Viral Hepatitis
20. Leptospirosis
21. Lyme Disease
22. Tuberculosis in Travelers and Immigrants
23. Chagas’ Disease
24. African Sleeping Sickness (Trypanosomiasis)
Section III - B: Diarrhea
25. Approach to Diarrhea in Returned Travelers
26. Giardia, Amoebas, and Parasites Associated with Diarrhea
27. Food Poisoning
28. Fish and Shellfish Poisoning: Toxic Syndromes
Section III - C: Skin Lesions
29. Approach to Tropical Dermatology
30. Acute Skin Reactions
31. Ectoparasites: Scabies, Mites, Cutaneous Myiasis
32. Bacterial Skin Infections
33. Fungal Skin Infections
34. Leishmaniasis
35. Leprosy (Hansen’s Disease)
Section III - D: Sexually Transmitted Diseases
36. Sexually Transmitted Diseases and Foreign Travel
37. Gonococcal and Chlamydial Genital Infections
38. Syphilis
39. Genital Ulcers
Section III - E: Worms
40. Common Intestinal Roundworms
41. Cestodes
42. Filarial Infections
43. Shistosomiasis and Other Flukes
44. Eosinophilic Patient with Suspected Parasitic Infection
Section IV: Post-travel Screening
Appendix: Tropical and Travel Medicine pharmacoepia
Appendix: Selected Information Resources for Travel and Tropical Medicine
Appendix: Travel Medicine Products
Appendix: Sources for Travel Medical Insurance and/or Evacuation
Appendix: Temperature Conversion.


Author Information
Edited by Elaine C. Jong, MD, Clinical Professor of Medicine; Director, Hall Health Primary Care Center; Medical Director, UW Campus Health Services; Director Emeritus, UW Travel & Tropical Medicine Clinic, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA; and Christopher A. Sanford.