TROPICAL VIRAL-INFECTIONS

This section should be of particular interest to the travel medicine p hysician as it reports many new manifestations of exotic viral infecti ons, both in terms of new clinical expression or extension to new geog raphical territory. Included are descriptions of improved diagnostic m ethodologies for arboviral diseases, a discussion of safety issues inv olving a licensed travel medicine vaccine and a randomized placebo-con trolled trial of a drug widely prescribed to reduce vascular permeabil ity in dengue hemorrhagic fever. Curr Coin Infect Dis 11:547-553 (C) 1 998 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.