Essential Travel Medicine

This 1^st edition of Essential Travel Medicine provides an excellent concise introduction to the specialty of Travel Medicine. This core text will enable health care practitioners particularly those new to the clinical practice of Travel Medicine, to gain a fundamental understanding of the diverse and complex issues which can potentially affect the health of the many millions of people who undertake international travel.

Jane N Zuckerman is joined by Gary W Brunette from CDC and Peter A Leggat from Australia as Editors. Leading international specialists in their fields have contributed authoritative chapters reflecting current knowledge to facilitate best clinical practice in the different aspects of travel medicine.

The aim of Essential Travel Medicine is to provide a comprehensive guide to Travel Medicine as well as a fundamental knowledge base to support international undergraduate and postgraduate specialty training programmes in the discipline of Travel Medicine.

The 1^st edition of Essential Travel Medicine offers an indispensable resource of essential information for travel health practitioners, infectious disease specialists, occupational health specialists, public health specialists, family practitioners, pharmacists and other allied health professionals. This core text will appeal similarly to those training in Travel Medicine and to those who want a concise introduction to the subject or an ideal revision companion.

List of Contributors vii

Preface xv

Acknowledgments xvii

Section 1: Travel medicine

1 Basic epidemiology of infectious diseases 3
Mark J. Sotir & David O. Freedman

2 Basic epidemiology of non-infectious diseases 9
Richard C. Franklin & Peter A. Leggat

3 Pre-travel health risk assessment 23
Peter A. Leggat & Jane N. Zuckerman

4 Setting up a travel clinic 35
Marc T.M. Shaw & Claire S. Wong

5 Travel medicine resources 45
Peter A. Leggat, Gary W. Brunette, Gilles Poumerol, & Jane N. Zuckerman

Section 2: Travel-related infectious diseases

6 Travelers’ diarrhea 57
Charles D. Ericsson

7 Vector-borne diseases 65
Annelies Wilder-Smith

8 Yellow fever 75
Mark D. Gershman & J. Erin Staples

9 Malaria 83
Tomas Jelinek

10 Respiratory disease 95
Regina LaRocque & Edward T. Ryan

11 Sexually transmitted infections 103
Alberto Matteelli, Anna Cristina C. Carvalho, & Patricia Schlagenhauf

12 Tropical skin infections 115
Francisco Vega-López & Sara Ritchie

13 Rabies 121
Mary J. Warrell

14 Vaccine-preventable diseases 131
Joseph Torresi, Abinash Virk & Jane N Zuckerman

Section 3: Travelers with underlying medical problems and special needs

15 Women’s health and travel 167
I. Dale Carroll

16 Traveling with children 173
Karl Neumann, Andrea P. Summer, & Philip R. Fischer

17 Travelers with underlying medical conditions 187
Anne E. McCarthy & Kathryn N. Suh

18 The older traveler and traveling with disability 199
Kathryn N. Suh & Anne E. McCarthy

19 Visiting friends and relatives 209
Karin Leder & Sarah L. McGuinness

20 Migrants, refugees, and travel medicine 215
Louis Loutan

21 Study-abroad programs: student health and safety issues 221
Gary Rhodes & Gary W. Brunette

22 Humanitarian aid workers, disaster relief workers, and missionaries 227
Brian D. Gushulak & Douglas W. MacPherson

23 Long-term travelers 235
Claire Davies & Ted Lankester

Section 4: Environmental travel health risks

24 Aviation and travel medicine 243
Michael Bagshaw, Ian C. Cheng & Robert Bor

25 Expedition and wilderness medicine 257
Sean T. Hudson, Will Smith, David R. Shlim, Caroline J. Knox & Karen J. Marienau

26 Venomous poisonous animals and toxins 279
Mark A. Read

27 Cruise ships and travel medicine 285
Sally S.J. Bell & Eilif Dahl

28 Mass gatherings and travel medicine 293
Joanna Gaines & Gary W. Brunette

29 Emergency care whilst abroad 301
Peter A. Leggat & Marc T.M. Shaw

Section 5: Post-travel medicine

30 The returning traveler 313
Tamar Lachish, Alfons Van Gompel & Eli Schwartz

Index 327

Jane N. Zuckerman, University College London, London, UK
Gary W. Brunette, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, USA
Peter A. Leggat, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia