title: [Management of febrile illness in the traveler returning from the tropics].
abstract: Fever in the traveler returning from the tropics is a common clinical situation in primary care or emergency. The first priority of clinicians should be to eliminate severe infectious diseases whose treatment is urgent, the first of which is still malaria due to P. falciparum. In a second step, after the emergency diagnosis eliminated, geographic updated epidemiological context must be taken into account to consider some other diagnosis. Finally, risk factors and patient's clinical characteristics should be analyzed. The diagnostic approach that we propose should enable any clinician to perform the first steps of the management of fever in the traveler returning from the tropics.
authors.forename: Carole
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Eldin
authors.forename: Philippe
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Gautret
authors.forename: Philippe
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Parola
mesh_terms: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D005334:Fever / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000209:etiology*; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D007239:Infections / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy; D012307:Risk Factors; D057236:Travel Medicine; D014329:Tropical Climate
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents