Eli Schwartz, "Tropical Diseases in Travelers"
Wiley-Blackwell | 2009 | ISBN: 1405184418, 1444316850 | 504 pages | PDF | 13,7MB
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.Wiley-Blackwell | 2009 | ISBN: 1405184418, 1444316850 | 504 pages | PDF | 13,7MB
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.
This is a very well organized, readable text that provides a practical, thorough approach to tropical infections in travelers. Each chapter has an excellent blend of background epidemiology, disease presentation, and appropriate diagnostic workup and treatment. These diseases are often difficult to uncover in an ill patient and the book is instructive in identifying not only what testing is indicated, but where it can be done. It has a particularly helpful section on tropical medicine lab studies and contact locations for performing the less common investigations.
The general chapters on disease syndromes are well done and guide the clinician to a differential diagnosis based on travel location and symptoms.
I highly recommend it for any clinician who may see ill returning travelers.
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