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643950
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Travel medicine /\ edited by Jay S. Keystone ... [et al.]
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| Edition Statement
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3rd ed
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| Publication Statement
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Oxford :: Saunders,, c2013
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xiii, 552 p. :: ill. ;; 29 cm
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9781455710768 (hbk.)
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: 1455710768 (hbk.)
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: 9781455745432 (e-book)
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: 145574543X (e-book)
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| Notes
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Previous ed.: Oxford: Mosby, 2008
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"Expert consult."
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| Contents
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Sect. 1. The practice of travel medicine. Introduction to travel medicine -- Epidemiology: morbidity and mortality in travelers -- Starting, organizing, and marketing a travel clinic -- Sources of travel medicine information
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Sect. 2. The pre-travel consultation. Pre-travel consultation -- Water disinfection for international travelers -- Insect protection -- Travel medical kits
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Sect. 3. Immunization. Principles of immunization -- Routine adult vaccines and boosters -- Routine travel vaccines: hepatitis A and B, typhoid, influenza -- Special adult travel vacciens: yellow fever, meningococcal, Japanese encephalitis, TBE, rabies, polio, cholera -- Pediatric travel vaccinations
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Sect. 4. Malaria. Malaria: epidemiology and risk to the traveler -- Malaria chemoprophylaxis -- Self-diagnosis and self-treatment of malaria by the traveler -- Approach to the patient with malaria
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Sect. 5. Travelers' diarrhea. Epidemiology of travelers' diarrhea -- Prevention of travelers' diarrhea -- Clinical presentation and management of travelers' diarrhea -- Persistent travelers' diarrhea
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Sect. 6. Travelers with special needs. The pregnant and breastfeeding traveler -- The pediatric and adolescent traveler -- The older traveler -- The physically challenged traveler -- The travelers with pre-existing disease -- The immunocompromised traveler -- The traveler with HIV -- the corporate and executive traveler -- International adoption -- Visiting friends and relatives
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Sect. 7. Travelers with special itineraries. Expatriates -- the migrant patient -- Humanitarian aid workers -- Expedition medicine -- Medical tourism -- Cruise ship travel -- Mass gatherings
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Sect. 8. Environmental aspects of travel medicine. High-altitude medicine -- Diving medicine -- Extremes of temperature and hydration -- Jet lag -- Motion sickness -- The aircraft cabin environment
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Sect. 9. Health problems while traveling. Bites, stings, and envenoming injuries -- Food-borne illness -- Injuries and injury prevention -- Psychiatric disorders of travel -- Travelers' thrombosis -- Healthcare abroad -- Personals ecurity and crime avoidance
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Sect. 10. Post-travel care. Post-travel screening -- Fever in returned travelers -- Skin diseases -- Eosinophilia -- Respiratory infections
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| Abstract
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This 3rd Edition, by Jay S. Keystone, Phyllis E. Kozarsky, David O. Freedman, Hans D. Nothdruft, and Bradley A. Connor, prepares you and your patients for any travel-related illness they may encounter. Consult this resource for best practices on everything from immunizations and pre-travel advice to essential post-travel screening. From domestic cruises to far-flung destinations, this guide offers a wealth of practical guidance on all aspects of travel medicine. New to this edition: Effectively protect your patients before they travel with new information on immunizations and emerging and re-emerging disease strains, including traveler's thrombosis. Update your knowledge of remote destinations and the unique perils they present. Stay abreast of best practices for key patient populations, with new chapters on the migrant patient, humanitarian aid workers, medical tourism, and mass gatherings, as well as updated information on pediatric and adolescent patients
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Travel Medicine-- methods
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Communicable Disease Control
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Primary Prevention
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Travel
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Travel-- Health aspects
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| Dewey Classification
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613.68
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| LC Classification
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RA783.5.T73 2013
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| NLM classification
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WA 108T779 2013
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| Added Entry
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Keystone, J. S
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