Risks of travel, benefits of a specialist consult

Cleve Clin J Med. 2010 Apr;77(4):246-54. doi: 10.3949/ccjm.77a.09097.

Abstract

If patients are planning to travel to developing countries, their primary care physicians can counsel them on various medical risks, especially traveler's diarrhea, and offer to update their immunizations. However, travelers to areas where there is a risk of malaria, yellow fever, or other tropical diseases should be referred to a specialist.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Bites and Stings / prevention & control
  • Developing Countries
  • Diarrhea / prevention & control
  • Humans
  • Immunization
  • Malaria / epidemiology
  • Malaria / prevention & control
  • Medicine
  • Primary Health Care
  • Referral and Consultation
  • Risk Assessment*
  • Travel Medicine / methods*
  • Travel*
  • Typhoid Fever / epidemiology
  • Typhoid Fever / prevention & control
  • Water Microbiology
  • Yellow Fever / epidemiology
  • Yellow Fever / prevention & control