Manual of Travel Medicine: a pre-travel guide for health care practitioners, 2/e
Table
of Contents
Foreword, by Professor Graham Brown
Vaccine terminology and abbreviations
Preface
About the authors
CHAPTER 1: PRINCIPLES OF PRE-TRAVEL HEALTH CARE
CHAPTER
2: IMMUNISATION
Introduction to pre-travel vaccination
Cholera
Diphtheria and Tetanus
Hepatitis A
Hepatitis B
Influenza
Japanese encephalitis
Measles, mumps and rubella
Meningococcal infection
Pertussis
Plague
Poliomyelitis
Rabies
Tick-borne encephalitis
Tuberculosis: BCG
Typhoid vaccine
Varicella
Yellow fever
CHAPTER
3: MALARIA PREVENTION
Preventive measures
Prophylactic drugs
Emergency self-treatment
Malaria risk by country and recommendations for chemoprophylaxis
CHAPTER
4: TRAVELLER’S DIARRHOEA
Incidence
Aetiology
Prevention
Management
Chemoprophylaxis
CHAPTER
5: NON-VACCINE PREVENTABLE INFECTIOUS PROBLEMS
Destination
Types of activities
Specific infections
African trypanosomiasis
American trypanosomiasis
Amoebiasis
Brucellosis
Ciguatera
Cutaneous larva migrans
Dengue fever
Hepatitis E
Legionellosis
Leishmaniasis
Leptospirosis
Lyme disease
Lymphatic filariasis, loiasis and onchocerciasis
Melioidosis
Myiasis
Q fever
Rickettsial infections
SARS
Schistosomiasis
Strongyloidiasis
Viral haemorrhagic fevers
West Nile fever
CHAPTER
6: NON-INFECTIOUS PROBLEMS
Fitness to fly
Motion sickness
Jet lag
Venous thrombosis and travellers
Altitude sickness
CHAPTER
7: TRAVELLERS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS
The pregnant traveller
Children
Elderly travellers
Expatriates and long-term travellers
Visiting friends and relatives
Travellers with cardiovascular problems
Travellers with chronic lung disease
Travellers with diabetes
The HIV-infected traveller
The immunocompromised traveller
The splenectomised traveller
CHAPTER 8: RESOURCES FOR TRAVEL HEALTH INFORMATION
APPENDICES
1 – Common travel destinations
2 – Countries: Vaccine recommendations and rabies status
3 – Vaccines: Route, schedule, lower age limit, accelerated regimen
4 – Vaccine introduction and use in Australia.
Index