title: Fever in the returning traveler.
abstract: Fever in ill travelers returning home from developing nations is common. Most travelers present with undifferentiated febrile syndromes. Regional proportionate morbidity rates and patients' travel histories are essential in narrowing the differential diagnosis. Most patients in whom a diagnosis is confirmed have malaria, dengue fever, enteric fever, or rickettsial disease. Empiric treatment based on the clinical presentation is required in many cases, because acquisition of confirmatory laboratory data is often delayed. The focus of this article is travel-related illness that falls within the spectrum of the acute febrile syndrome.
authors.affiliation: Division of Global Health, Department of Emergency Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, 464 Congress Avenue, Suite 260, New Haven, CT 06519, USA. Electronic address: simonkotlyar@mac.com.
authors.forename: Simon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kotlyar
authors.forename: Brian T
authors.initials: BT
authors.lastname: Rice
mesh_terms: D001424:Bacterial Infections / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005334:Fever / Q000209:etiology*; D006482:Hemorrhagic Fevers, Viral / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D010272:Parasitic Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis; D014195:Travel
keywords: Fever; Imported infectious disease; International travel; Tropical disease