| Description |
xviii, 518 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 23 cm. |
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A Johns Hopkins Press health book |
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Johns Hopkins Press health book.
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| Contents |
Sources of travel advice. Personal physicians and travel clinics ; Websites for travelers ; Medical and evacuation insurance ; Overseas medical care and medical tourism -- Pre-travel planning. Devising a prevention strategy ; The geographic distribution of major travelers' infections ; Immunizations ; Personal protection measures ; Drug prophylaxis and self-treatment ; Special circumstances ; Travel medical kits -- Bacterial infections. What you-- and your doctor-- need to know about bacteria ; Typhoid fever ; Plague ; Cholera ; Leptospirosis ; Typhus and other rickettsial infections ; Oroya, trench, and Q fevers ; Relapsing fevers ; Anthrax, brucellosis, and listeriosis ; Bacterial meningitis ; Tuberculosis -- Viral infections. What you-- and your doctor-- need to know about viruses ; Arbovirus infections : an overview ; Yellow fever ; Dengue fever ; Other arboviruses ; Ebola and other viral hemorrhagic fevers ; Poliomyelitis ; Acute viral hepatitis ; Rabies ; Influenza -- Parasitic infections. What you-- and your doctor-- need to know about parasites ; Malaria ; Amebiasis ; Leishmaniasis ; African and American trypanosomiasis ; Intestinal roundworm infections ; Tissue roundworm infections ; Schistosomiasis and other flatworm infections -- Infections caused by multiple microbes. Sexually transmitted infections ; Travelers' diarrhea ; Tropical skin infections and infestations -- Post-travel considerations. Fever in returning travelers ; Post-travel screening : yes or no? |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [479]-496) and index. |
| Subject |
Travel -- Health aspects -- Popular works.
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Vaccination -- Popular works.
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Communicable diseases -- Prevention -- Popular works.
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Communicable Diseases -- Popular Works.
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Travel -- Popular Works.
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Communicable Disease Control -- methods -- Popular Works.
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Vaccination -- Popular Works.
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| ISBN |
9781421403793 hardcover alkaline paper |
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142140379X hardcover alkaline paper |
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9781421403809 paperback alkaline paper |
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1421403803 paperback alkaline paper |
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