Management of the returning traveler with diarrhea

Therapeutic Advances in Gastroenterology

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 367-375

  de Saussure, Philippe P H ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Campylobacter infections; Colonic diseases; Diarrhea; Dysentery; Functional; Inflammatory bowel diseases; Travel

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; LOPERAMIDE; METRONIDAZOLE; NORFLOXACIN; OFLOXACIN; PLACEBO; RIFAXIMIN;

ABDOMINAL CRAMP; ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORT; ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; ADJUVANT THERAPY; AEROMONAS HYDROPHILA; AMEBIASIS; ANOREXIA; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ASCARIASIS; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CONSTIPATION; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; CYCLOSPORA CAYETANENSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DIZZINESS; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG SAFETY; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; ENTERITIS; ENTEROBIASIS; ENTEROBIUS VERMICULARIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES ANALYSIS; FEVER; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; GIARDIASIS; HEADACHE; HEMATOCHEZIA; HISTOPLASMA CAPSULATUM; HUMAN; INDIA; INSOMNIA; IRRITABLE COLON; LACTOSE INTOLERANCE; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LOADING DRUG DOSE; MOOD; MUNCHAUSEN SYNDROME; MYCOBACTERIUM; NAUSEA; PERSISTENT INFECTION; PLESIOMONAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; RASH; REVIEW; SALMONELLA; SHIGELLA; SIDE EFFECT; SOUTHEAST ASIA; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; TRAVELLER DIARRHEA; TREATMENT INDICATION; VAGINITIS; VOMITING;

EID: 77953393054     PISSN: 1756283X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1756283X09346668     Document Type: Article

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