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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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Travel and Tropical Medicine Manual by John D. Shanley (Ct, USA)

5 Stars
June 25, 2009
This is a concise summary of Travel Medicine topics and is an essenial tool for individuals involved in Travel Medicine practice. I ahve been using this manual for ten year (prior edition) and find that this is a welcome update.

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