title: [Fever in returning travelers].
abstract: Travel-related illness is most often due to gastrointestinal, febrile, and dermatologic diseases. Fever in a returned traveler demands prompt attention because it may be a manifestation of an infection that could be rapidly progressive and lethal. The approach to the febrile patient should be stepwise and consider travel and exposure history. Malaria is the most common cause of fever in patients returning from Sub-Saharan Africa, whereas dengue is more frequent in travelers from other tropical and subtropical areas. Other serious diseases are typhoid and paratyphoid fever, amebic liver abscess, visceral leishmaniasis, leptospirosis and-rarely-viral hemorrhagic fevers.
authors.affiliation: ifi - Institut für Interdisziplinäre Medizin, Lohmühlenstr. 5, 20099, Hamburg, Deutschland, burchard@ifi-medizin.de.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Burchard
mesh_terms: D005335:Fever of Unknown Origin / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D038622:Internationality; D008101:Liver Abscess, Amebic / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy; D008288:Malaria / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy; D014195:Travel; D057236:Travel Medicine / Q000379:methods
vernacular_title: Fieber bei Reiserückkehrern.