title: Infectious risks for travelers to the tropics.
abstract: This paper is a brief overview of travel medicine with an emphasis on infectious disease risks for travelers to the tropics such as traveler's diarrhea, malaria, and vaccine preventable illnesses.
authors.affiliation: Infectious Diseases Division, Washington University School of Medicine, USA. fkuhlman@dom.wustl.edu
authors.forename: F Matthew
authors.initials: FM
authors.lastname: Kuhlmann
authors.forename: Gary J
authors.initials: GJ
authors.lastname: Weil
mesh_terms: D003967:Diarrhea / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D004403:Dysentery / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D006801:Humans; D008288:Malaria / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D018570:Risk Assessment; D014195:Travel; D014329:Tropical Climate; D015004:Yellow Fever / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control