title: Chronic diarrhea in the returned traveler.
abstract: The persistence of gastrointestinal symptoms after travel to a developing country is one of the most common and troublesome post-travel illnesses. Few data exist to document the extent of this problem, but anecdotal examples abound among travel medicine practitioners, internists, and gastroenterologists. This article presents an approach to the patient with persistent gastrointestinal symptoms after travel.
authors.affiliation: Department of Enteric Infections, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Washington, District of Columbia, USA. col_david_taylor@wrsmtp-ccmail.army.mil
authors.forename: D N
authors.initials: DN
authors.lastname: Taylor
authors.forename: B A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Connor
authors.forename: D R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Shlim
mesh_terms: D001424:Bacterial Infections / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003967:Diarrhea / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology* / Q000382:microbiology; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008889:Military Personnel; D010272:Parasitic Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis; D014195:Travel