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The Travel and sel patients on travel-related issues, cies. Incorporating contributions from infectious disease physicians with an 49 authors results in chapters of vari- Tropical Medicine interest in travel medicine, other travel able quality, some redundancies, and Manual, 4th Edition medicine practitioners, and trainees occasional omissions. A 20-page doing rotations in travel medicine. chapter on water disinfection appears Elaine C. Jong and However, its technical terminology disproportionately lengthy when com- Christopher A. Sanford, editors and concepts prevent the manual from pared with the immediately preceding Saunders/Elsevier, Philadelphia, achieving its stated goal of being a 12-page chapter on the prevention and PA, USA, 2008 “perfect source” for travelers. self-treatment of traveler’s diarrhea. ISBN: 978-1-4160-2613-6 The greatest strengths of the man- Although the chapter on women trav- Pages: 682; Price: US $55.95 ual continue to be its practical sugges- elers discusses male condoms super- tions for counseling travelers prior to fi cially, this important topic is well their departure and evaluating patients addressed in the chapter on sexually Like the previous editions of The with post-travel illnesses. Notable transmitted infections. In future edi- Travel and Tropical Medicine Manual, chapters discuss general approaches tions of the manual, the editors should the 4th edition continues to success- to travel medicine, immunizations, consider including more than 2 photo- fully teach the fundamentals of travel managing jet lag and motion sickness, graphs in the 74-page section on skin and tropical medicine and serve as a counseling HIV-infected travelers, lesions, using a larger font, and enlarg- useful reference. The manual is well- malaria prevention, avoiding and self- ing the fi gures. organized and literally (measuring 12 treating travelers’ diarrhea, evaluating Clinicians who routinely evalu- × 20 cm) and fi guratively handy. It has diarrhea in returned travelers, tropical ate patients before or after traveling many appealing tables and fi gures, a dermatology and sexually transmitted should defi nitely consider purchasing colorful cover, and a reasonable price. infections. The manual also has out- this manual, reading select chapters It remains appropriately titled, with standing tables in its approach to trav- in the pretravel and special travelers some chapters written from a travel el medicine chapter. Other informa- sections, and keeping it in their travel perspective and others from a tropical tive tables describe the safe selection clinic as a useful reference. medicine perspective. of food and water, drugs for prevent- The manual contains 45 chapters ing and treating traveler’s diarrhea, Eric V. Granowitz divided into 7 sections (Pre-Travel the use of melatonin to prevent jet lag, Author affi liation: Baystate Medical Center– Advice, Advice for Special Travelers, potential interactions between antiret- Tufts University School of Medicine, Fever, Diarrhea, Skin Lesions, Sexual- roviral and travel-related medications, Springfi eld, Massachusetts, USA ly Transmitted Diseases, and Worms). and the differential diagnoses of trav- The current edition has a new coedi- el-related skin lesions. The manual DOI: 10.3201/eid1505.090033 tor (Christopher A. Sanford) and new wisely refers readers to internet sites Address for correspondence: Eric V. Granowitz, chapters on urban medicine and health such as www.cdc.gov/travel for up-to- Baystate Medical Center–Infectious Disease advice for long-term expatriates. Its date travel advice. Division, 759 Chestnut St, Springfi eld, MA audience should continue to be prima- Although the manual has short- 01199, USA; email: [email protected] ry care providers who routinely coun- comings, it has no serious defi cien-

Erratum—Vol. 15, No. 3 A reference was missing from the article Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Poultry (D. Persoons et al.). In the Table ac- companying the article, the data on spa types isolated from pigs were originally described in de Neeling AJ, van den Broek MJM, Spalburg EC, van Santen-Verheuvel MG, Dam-Deisz WDC, Boshuizen HC, et al. High prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in pigs. Vet Microbiol. 2007;122:366–72. The article has been corrected online (www.cdc.gov/EID/content/15/3/452.htm).

DOI: 10.3201/eid1505.999000

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