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Travel History - Clues to Infectious Disease Diagnosis in a Traveler 
 • Where did you
Clues to Infectious ... → Travelers' diarrhea ... Herpesvirus B infection ... InfectiousDiseases #Infections ... #differential #
Fever in the Returning Traveler - History
Exposure History:
 • Street foods / Local water: entenc fever,
, travellers' diarrhea ... tattoos, piercings, injections ... ' diarrhea, dengue ... ' diarrhea, RTI, ... History #diagnosis #differential
Fever in Returning Traveler - ABCDE Mnemonic
A - Adventure - Where did the patient travel? 
B
Fever in Returning ... Undifferentiated fever ... Gastrointestinal (Diarrheal ... Non-diarrheal), ... Ill Contacts Infectious
Fever in Returning Travelers from Tropical Regions - Frequent Differential Diagnoses
Medical History:
 • Skin exposure to
B, hepatitis C infection ... , HIV infection, ... , acute HIV infection ... HIV infection ... liver abscess • Diarrhea
Algorithm for the Evaluation of Acute Diarrhea (< 7 days)
Are the following present?
   1.
Evaluation of Acute Diarrhea ... Ova and parasite ... Travel to endemic ... HIV infection or ... fever, abdominal
Causes of Acute Infectious Diarrhea
Noninflammatory Diarrhea
Viral - Noroviruses, astrovirus, adenovirus, Rotavirus, sapovirus
Protozoal - Giardia lamblia, Cryptosporidium,
Causes of Acute Infectious ... Diarrhea Viral ... Causes #Acute #Infectious ... #differential # ... diagnosis #table
Infectious Diarrhea - Laboratory Testing

Clostridium difficile
Salmonella enterica, Shigella spp, Campylobacter spp 
Salmonella enterica serovars Typhi and
Infectious Diarrhea ... Paratyphi (enteric fever ... associated with diarrhea ... Cytomegalovirus #Infectious ... #differential #
Fever After International Travel

Infectious Disease:
• Endemic in either the destination or home region

Viral Syndromes:
Arboviral infections, a
Travel Infectious ... Syndromes: Arboviral infections ... • Filovirus infections ... • Rickettsial infections ... #Travel #Differential
Clinical Presentations Suggestive of Infectious Diarrhea Etiologies
 • Persistent or chronic diarrhea - Cryptosporidium spp, Giardia
Suggestive of Infectious ... and parasitic infections ... hours in 40% if infections ... bowel syndrome #Infectious ... #differential #
Enteric E.coli
EnteroPathogenic E. coli (EPEC) - Diarrhoea in children
EnteroHaemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) - Haemorrhagic colitis HUS
EnteroToxigenic
coli (EPEC) - Diarrhoea ... coli (ETEC) - Traveler's ... coli (EAEC) - Diarrhoea ... UTI and systemic infections ... strains #diagnosis #differential