ILOs
- to understand the illnesses likely in returning travelers with fever
- to understand the prevention and clinical features of malaria, typhoid and Dengue fever
- to understand different causes of undifferentiated fever in the returning travellers (traveler's diarrhoea; schistosomiasis)
Part 1: Undifferentiated Fevers
- Look at GEOSENTINEL…
- Old data, but look at the most common symptoms in returning travellers between January 2007 and December 2011…
- What are the causes of undifferentiated fever?
Malaria
- What’s the first important thing with any patient who comes back from travel with a fever?
- How is malaria spread?
- How do we diagnose malaria?
- How do we manage a patient with non-falciparum malaria?
- How do we separate a case of falciparum malaria?
- What are the features of severe falciparum malaria, and how do they come about?
- How do we manage uncomplicated falciparum malaria?
- And, how do we manage severe falciparum malaria?
- What is the prognosis for malaria?
Enteric Fever