Edited by Patricia Schlagenhauf-Lawlor. 532 pp., illustrated. London, B.C. Decker, 2001. $99.95. ISBN 1-55009-157-3.
What is malaria? The answer to this seemingly simple questionis, in fact, quite complex, for it depends to a large extenton who is infected. It is particularly difficult for referencebooks to describe a "typical" patient with malaria, since plasmodiuminfection in a partially immune, long-term resident of a malaria-transmissionzone is likely to be very different from acute malaria in anonimmune traveler to the same area. Given these considerations,Travelers' Malaria provides an especially helpful resource forpractitioners of travel medicine in areas where malaria is notendemic, such as the United States, Canada, and western . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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