Infectious Diseases : A Geographic Guide

This concise and practical guide describes infections in geographical areas and provides information on disease risk, concomitant infections (such as co-prevalence of HIV and malaria) and emerging infections that may be challenging to diagnose. For the clinician, this book is a tool to generate differential diagnoses by considering the geographical history, as well the presenting symptoms and duration of illness. For the travel medicine specialist, this book provides information on risks of different diseases at various destinations and is particularly useful in advising and assessing long-term travelers or those visiting locations 'off the beaten path'. For the physician from one area of the world practicing medicine in another region, this book assists by distinguishing the infections that are prevalent locally A Geographic Guide to Infectious Diseases is divided according to United Nations world regions and addresses geographic disease profiles, presenting symptoms, and incubation periods of infections. Each chapter contains a section on the coverage of the childhood vaccination programs in the countries included in that region. Chapters also include descriptions of infectious disease risk and problems with resistance of bacterial, viral and parasitic infection in each region (e.g. antibiotic resistance in Salmonella infections in Southeast Asia). This book is a rapid reference guide for infectious disease specialists who are hospital based and for those in practice.

Eskild Petersen MD, DMSc, DTMH, Department of Infectious Diseases, Aarhus University Hospital Skejby, Aarhus, Denmark Lin H. Chen MD, FACP, Travel Medicine Center, Mount Auburn Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA, USA Patricia Schlagenhauf PhD, FFTM, RCPS (Glasg), University of Zrich Centre for Travel Medicine; WHO Collaborating Centre for Travellers' Health, Zrich, Switzerland