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Illness from abroad: presentation and diagnosis of tropical diseases
Author(s) -
Brightman Christopher
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
trends in urology and men's health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2044-3749
pISSN - 2044-3730
DOI - 10.1002/tre.397
Subject(s) - presentation (obstetrics) , tropical disease , neglected tropical diseases , value (mathematics) , disease , geography , medicine , family medicine , history , pathology , computer science , surgery , machine learning
Abstract With an increase in international travel and the number of people visiting exotic places, most GPs are likely to see at least one case of a tropical disease in their career. Dr Brightman considers the questions to ask when taking the history, before discussing the more common presentations of tropical diseases and which laboratory investigations are of value in their diagnosis. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons.