[Treatment and prevention of traveler's diarrhea].

Often health care personnel are asking for advice on treatment and prevention of diarrhea acquired while traveling outside the United States. Probably there are as many different suggestions given as there are causes of travelers' diarrhea. Recently, however, more knowledge has been gathered on this subject and the waters are clearing slightly, so to speak. So we thought it appropriate to include a brief review of the subject as it appeared in a recent advisory memorandum from the Center for Disease Control, Atlanta, Georgia.