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The Travel and Tropical Medicine Manual


by Elaine C. Jong, Christopher A. Sanford

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Sales Rank: 166477
Studio: Saunders
Binding: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 688
Publication Date: August 08, 2008
Publisher: Saunders


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Product Description
Here's a handy, portable guide to preventing, evaluating, and managing diseases that can be acquired in tropical environments and foreign countries! Whether you're a physician, traveler, or both, this respected manual is your perfect source for quick, easy access to the latest travel medicine information. New updates and additional material are presented in a sleek new design that offers rapid access to the content you need. The fourth edition features more critical content than ever before-including new evidence-based recommendations and new maps and illustrations. From pre-travel advice and immunizations to the diagnosis and treatment of a full range of travel-related illnesses, you'll have all the information you need to avoid, recognize, and treat illnesses acquired away from home in a convenient, pocket size guide.

  • Illustrates key concepts with visual guidance from dynamic new images.
  • Offers evidence-based treatment recommendations to enable you to manage diseases confidently.
  • Provides access to need-to-know information quickly in a convenient, pocket size for excellent portability.


  • Features the most recent developments in tropical and travel medicine to keep you current.
  • Includes new maps and improved images to provide visual displays of the information.
  • Highlights major issues in new chapters such as Urban Medicine: Threats to Health of Travelers to Developing World Cities; Pre-Travel Risk Assessment and Health Advice for Missionaries and Other Long-Term Expatriate Volunteers; Trematodes; and others.


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