SMJ articles in the category "travel"

Original Article

Evaluation of Patients for Zika Virus Infection in a Travel Clinic in the Southeast United States, 2016

Objectives: Zika virus is an emerging infection that has posed vexing challenges to the US public health system. Improved characterization of patients with possible and confirmed infection is needed to better understand risks for infection in US travelers and to inform evolving evaluation guidelines. Methods: We performed a retrospective electronic…

Posted in: public health 15 travel 2

Case Report

Coccidioidomycosis Diagnosed in South Carolina

Primary care physicians in the Eastern United States rarely consider coccidioidomycosis in the differential diagnosis of pulmonary infections or febrile illnesses. However, the mobility of the population mandates consideration of this diagnosis, particularly in patients with fever and cough that do not resolve rapidly and in patients with adenopathy on…

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