Traveller's Diarrhea

Of the 50 million travelers currently moving from temperate industrialized countries to the tropics, nearly half will contract diarrhea from contaminated food and water. Some will be so sick, they will check into hospitals. Yet, people can avoid gastrointestinal infection by taking precautions. Health professionals can help by pointing out risk areas and by treating these patients with the most effective therapies when they return. World experts in infectious disease collaborate to bring you the pathogenesis and latest management recommendations for gastroenteritis in this new monograph, Travelers' Diarrhea. The text describes the most-hated disease-bearing bacterial, viral, and parasitic pathogens, as well as host factors and susceptibility, and the clinical features and syndromes associated with travelers' diarrhea. It features entire sections on prevention, treatment (including self-treatment abroad), and special hosts and populations -- immune compromised, children, the elderly, pregnant women, military personnel, and expatriates. Travelers' Diarrhea also forecasts what the future holds in the way of environmental control and prevention. Hope lies in advanced molecular and genetic techniques that may elucidate much about enteropathogens and our bodies' protective antigens. Higher hopes rest on the development of vaccines and improvement in public health service around the world. Those who treat travelers and those who travel will benefit from this one-of-a-kind text, Travelers' Diarrhea. Travelers' Diarrhea comes complete with its own CD-ROM. The disk includes the complete text and illustrations contained within the text in fully searchable PDF files. BC Decker Inc is committed to providing medical and health care professionals with high quality electronic publications that complement traditional information and learning methods. Book jacket.Ericsson, Charles is the author of 'Traveller's Diarrhea', published 2003 under ISBN 9781550092196 and ISBN 1550092197.