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Robert Steffen - Manual of travel medicine and health

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This manual is a companion to the Textbook of Travel Medicine by the same authors. The manual focuses on the diseases travellers face and how to provide them with the information and immunizations they need to reduce their risk from travel in risky areas. Infectious health risks are covered in-depth, from transmission and epidemiology through incubation and therapy. The health risks covered include anthrax, cholera, hantavirus, hepatitus, HIV, influenza, lassa fever malaria, plague, poliomylitis, rabies and tetanus.

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title:Manual of Travel Medicine and Health
author:Steffen, Robert.; DuPont, Herbert L.
publisher:B.C. Decker, Inc.
isbn10 | asin:155009078X
print isbn13:9781550090789
ebook isbn13:9780585288161
language:English
subjectTravel--Health aspects--Handbooks, manuals, etc, Tropical medicine--Handbooks, manuals, etc, Travel, Immunization, Communicable Disease Control.
publication date:1999
lcc:RA783.5.S744 1999eb
ddc:613.6/8
subject:Travel--Health aspects--Handbooks, manuals, etc, Tropical medicine--Handbooks, manuals, etc, Travel, Immunization, Communicable Disease Control.
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Manual of Travel Medicine and Health
Robert Steffen, MD
Professor of Travel Medicine
Institute for Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Zurich
Chief, Division of Epidemiology and Prevention of Communicable Diseases
Director, WHO Collaborating Center of Travelers' Health
Zurich, Switzerland
Herbert L. DuPont, MD
Clinical Professor of Medicine
H. Irving Schweppe Chair, Baylor College of Medicine
Mary W. Kelsey Professor, University of Texas at Houston
Chief, Internal Medicine Service
St. Luke' Episcopal Hospital
Houston, Texas
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1999, Robert Steffen, Herbert L. DuPont
Manual of Travel Medicine and Health
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or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording,
or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher.
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ISBN 1-55009-078-X
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Notice: The authors and publisher have made every effort to ensure that the patient care recommended
herein, including choice of drugs and drug dosages, is in accord with the accepted standard
and practice at the time of publication. However, since research and regulation constantly
change clinical standards, the reader is urged to check recent publications and the product information
sheet included in the package of each drug, which includes recommended doses, warnings,
and contraindications. This is particularly important with new or infrequently used drugs.
Page v
CONTENTS
Preface
ix
Introduction
1
Part 1
Basics
Travelers and their Destinations
7
Overview of Health Risks in Travelers
43
Pretravel Counseling
50
Strategies in Host-Related Special Risks
82
Strategies in Environment-Related Special Risks
110
Part 2
Infectious Health Risks
Anthrax
121
Arenaviral Hemorrhagic Fevers
122
Botulism
124
Brucellosis
125
Cholera
126
Dengue
141
Dermatologic Infections
146
Diphtheria
147
Filariasis
152
Filovirus Infections
159
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