A travel medicine guide to arthropods of medical importance

Guidance has been offered to clinicians so they might better educate and advise travelers how to protect themselves, and evaluate complaints by travelers once they have returned. Any biting arthropod may cause direct injury, and the bite of just one infectious vector can be enough to prove fatal to the unprotected. Travelers and travel medicine practitioners should familiarize themselves with the vectors and vector-borne agents likely to been countered corresponding to the traveler's specific itinerary, accommodations, and planned activities, and devise a rational strategy to reduce risk.