title: A travel medicine guide to arthropods of medical importance.
abstract: Guidance has been offered to clinicians so they might better educate and advise travelers how to protect themselves, and evaluate complaints by travelers once they have returned. Any biting arthropod may cause direct injury, and the bite of just one infectious vector can be enough to prove fatal to the unprotected. Travelers and travel medicine practitioners should familiarize themselves with the vectors and vector-borne agents likely to been countered corresponding to the traveler's specific itinerary, accommodations, and planned activities, and devise a rational strategy to reduce risk.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Public Health Entomology, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA. rpollack@hsph.harvard.edu
authors.forename: Richard J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Pollack
authors.forename: Leonard C
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Marcus
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001179:Arthropod Vectors; D001181:Arthropods / Q000502:physiology*; D001733:Bites and Stings; D019353:Endemic Diseases; D006801:Humans; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D012306:Risk; D014195:Travel