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Evaluation of the returned traveler.
Recognition of clinical syndromes in returned travelers is an important part of providing care to international travelers. The first step is to take a history with attention to pre-travel preventive measures, the patient's itinerary, and potential exposure to infectious agents. The patient should then be examined to document physical signs, such as fever, rash, or hepatosplenomegaly, and to hav...
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A previous healthy 48-year-old Japanese man presented to our hospital with a 3-day history of a high fever and rash. Ten days after returning from a one-week visit to Malaysia on a business trip, he developed a fever, chill, sore throat, runny nose, arthralgia and rash. The patient reported no pain behind the eyes, coughing or abdominal symptoms. He did not remember his immunization history wel...
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Figure 1. Islands of normal skin surrounded by blanching erythema on the abdomen of a 21-year-old woman who returned from travel in Sri Lanka. Diagnosis: Dengue fever. The most commonly diagnosed tropical infections that cause fever in the returned traveler are malaria, dengue, typhoid, and viral hepatitis [1]. The epidemiology may change with appropriate pretravel vaccination and use of malari...
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This is a case report of a 12-year-old returned traveler with typhoid and scrub typhus coinfection. The diagnosis of typhoid was made early with blood cultures and Widal Weil Felix serology. Persistent fever despite appropriate antibiotics for typhoid fever prompted a search for concomitant infection, which led to the diagnosis of scrub typhus confirmed by Orientia tsutsugamushi serology. The p...
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Severe dermatophyte infection is rare in immunocompetent adults. Recently cases have been described in travelers returning from South East Asia (Luchsinger et al., 2015) [1]. These may be sexually transmitted and can have permanent sequelae. We describe the first reported case of Majocchi's granuloma (MG) in an Australian returned traveler and its subsequent transmission via sexual contact. Bot...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Seminars in Diagnostic Pathology
سال: 2019
ISSN: 0740-2570
DOI: 10.1053/j.semdp.2019.04.014