Expert and experienced authors discuss a broad spectrum of topics related to the care of patients before, during and after return from travel. Prevention, including vaccination, and avoidance play an important role in travel medicine and are examined thoroughly. Special populations are discussed in detail, including infants, children, adolescents, the pregnant traveler, the immunosupressed traveler, and the extreme traveler.
1. Preventive Guidance for Travel: Trauma Avoidance and Medical Evacuation (Spira) 2. Travelers Diarrhea: Prevention and Treatment (Kamat) 3. Insect Avoidance and Malaria Chemoprophylaxis (Junkett) 4. Routine Vaccines for Travel (Chen) 5. Vaccine Special Issues: Yellow Fever, Rabies and Japanese Encephalitis (McCellan) 6. Travel Medicine for Visiting Friends and Relatives (Stauffer) 7. Travel with Infants and Children (Summer) 8. Wilderness Medicine and the Extreme Traveler (Boulware) 9. Advising the Adolescent Traveler (Neild) 10. Pregnancy and Travel (Carroll) 11. The Immunosuppressed Traveler (Smego) 12. Evaluation of the Ill Returning Traveler (Becamer) 13. Practical Approach to Laboratory Diagnosis of the Ill Returned Traveler (Rosenblatt) 14. Resources and Opportunities for Training in Travel Medicine (Levin)
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