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**[[Traveler's Diarrhea]]
**[[Traveler's Diarrhea]]
**[[Travel Skin Conditions]]
**[[Travel Skin Conditions]]
==CNS Changes and Fever==
# malaria, tb, typhoid fvr, rickettsia, poliomyelitis, rabies, viral (Japanese/ West Nile/ tick borne) encephalitis
# meningococcal meningitis assoc with Haj to Mecca
# eosinophilic meningitis assoc c coccidiomycosis or angiostrongyliasis- rat lung worm to brain
# trypanosomiasis by tsetse fly- Africal sleeping sickness- red chancre at site of fly bite, fvr, ha, myalgia going to meningoencephalitis. May see trypansosomes in smear in acute phase
==Resp Sx and Fever==
# consider strep pneumonia, influenza, mycoplasma, legionella, tb
# Q Fever- coxiella burnetti- fvr, pna, hepatitis and animal exposure
# Lofflers syn- pulm infiltrates, eosinophilia from transient migration of larval helminthes through lungs
# Cough also seen in malaria, typhoid fvr, scrub typhus, dengue
==Sex/ Blood Exposure and Fever==
# can have fvr without genital findings- hiv, syphilis (treponema pallidum) cmv, ebv, hep B
# also from tattoo, piercing, share razor, blood xfsn


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