[The illnesses of a traveler returned from the tropics: how to deal with fever or diarrhea].
In patients returning from an endemic region who present with a feverish illness, malaria should always be the first disease you should suspect and investigate. In the case of uncomplicated traveler's diarrhea in the adult in contrast, unspecific symptomatic treatment suffices, and no specific diagnostic work-up is required. Only when certain alarm symptoms are present are further measures such as the search for pathogens or chemotherapy indicated.
Centrum für Reise- und Tropenmedizin, Berlin. jelinek@bctropen.de
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D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D003967:Diarrhea / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy; D005334:Fever / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008288:Malaria / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy; D012307:Risk Factors; D014195:Travel; D014330:Tropical Medicine