[Management of febrile illness in the traveler returning from the tropics]

Abstract

Fever in the traveler returning from the tropics is a common clinical situation in primary care or emergency. The first priority of clinicians should be to eliminate severe infectious diseases whose treatment is urgent, the first of which is still malaria due to P. falciparum. In a second step, after the emergency diagnosis eliminated, geographic updated epidemiological context must be taken into account to consider some other diagnosis. Finally, risk factors and patient's clinical characteristics should be analyzed. The diagnostic approach that we propose should enable any clinician to perform the first steps of the management of fever in the traveler returning from the tropics.