Jeremy Farrar & Peter J Hotez & Thomas Junghanss & Gagandeep Kang & David Lalloo & Nicholas J. White
Date of Publication: 01/2014
From the difficult to diagnose to the difficult to treat, Manson’s Tropical Diseases prepares you to effectively handle whatever your patients may have contracted. Featuring an internationally recognized editorial team, global contributors, and exp ...view more
From the difficult to diagnose to the difficult to treat, Manson’s Tropical Diseases prepares you to effectively handle whatever your patients may have contracted. Featuring an internationally recognized editorial team, global contributors, and expert authors, this revised and updated medical reference book provides you with the latest coverage on parasitic and infectious diseases from around the world.
From the difficult to diagnose to the difficult to treat, Manson’s Tropical Diseases prepares you to effectively handle whatever your patients may have contracted. Featuring an internationally recognized editorial team, global contributors, and expert authors, this revised and updated medical reference book provides you with the latest coverage on parasitic and infectious diseases from around the world.
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through a completely redesigned and modernized format, which includes full-color images throughout plus a wealth of additional illustrations online at Expert Consult.
Apply the latest treatment strategies for HIV/AIDS, tropical neurology, malaria, and much more.
Put the latest international expertise to work for you and your patients with new chapters covering Global Health; Global Health Governance and Tropical Diseases; Non-communicable Diseases; Obesity in the Tropics; and Emergency and Intensive Care Medicine in Resource-poor Settings.
See which diseases are most prevalent in specific areas of the tropics through a new index of diseases by country, as well as online-only maps that provide additional detail.
Better understand the variations in treatment approaches across the globe.
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By Jeremy Farrar, FRCP, FMedAcSci, DPhil, OBE; Peter J Hotez, MD, PhD, Dean, National School of Tropical Medicine, Professor, Pediatrics and Molecular Virology & Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine; Endowed Chair of Tropical Pediatrics, Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, Texas; Thomas Junghanss, MD, MScPHDC (Lon), Internal Medicine, subspecialties Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Professor (apl) Section Clinical Tropical Medicine University Hospital Heidelberg Heidelberg, Germany; Gagandeep Kang, MD, PhD, FRCPath, FASc, FAAM, Professor, Gastrointestinal Sciences, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India; David Lalloo, MBBS, MD, FRCP, FFTM, RCPS(Glasg), Director and Professor of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK; Nicholas J. White, OBE, MD, DSc, FRCP, F Med Sci, FRS, Professor of Tropical Medicine, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand and Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
By Jeremy Farrar, FRCP, FMedAcSci, DPhil, OBE, Peter J Hotez, MD, PhD, Thomas Junghanss, MD, MScPHDC (Lon), Gagandeep Kang, MD, PhD, FRCPath, FASc, FAAM, David Lalloo, MBBS, MD, FRCP, FFTM, RCPS(Glasg) and Nicholas J. White, OBE, MD, DSc, FRCP, F Med Sci, FRS
1 History of tropical medicine, and medicine in the tropics Section 1: Public Health & Economics
2 Global health 3 Global health governance and tropical diseases 4 The Economic Case for Devoting Public Resources to Health Section 2: Health Research and Ethics
5 Ethics and Tropical Diseases: Some Global Considerations Section 3: Epidemiology
6 Issues and challenges of public-health research in developing countries Section 4: Clinical assessment
7 Emergency and intensive care medicine in resource poor settings 8 Ultrasound in tropical medicine Section 5: Viral Infection
9 HIV: Epidemiology in the Tropics 10 Clinical Features and Management of HIV/AIDS 11 HIV/AIDS in children 12 HIV/AIDS prevention 13 Viral hepatitis 14 Arbovirus infections 15 Dengue 16 Viral hemorrhagic fevers 17 Rabies 18 Rotavirus and other viral diarrhea 19 Respiratory viruses and atypical bacteria 20 Viral Exanthems 21 Virus infections of the nervous system Section 6: Bacterial Infections
43 Malaria 44 Babesiosis 45 Human African trypanosomiasis 46 American Trypanosomiasis: Chagas Disease 47 Leishmaniasis 48 Toxoplasmosis 49 Intestinal Protozoa 50 Pathogenic and Opportunistic Free-Living Amebae: Agents of Human and Animal Disease 51 Trichomonas vaginalis Section 10: Helminthic Infections
52 Schistosomiasis 53 Food-borne Trematodes 54 The filariases 55 Soil-transmitted Helminths (Geohelminths) 56 Echinococcosis/Hydatidosis 57 Other Cestode Infections: Intestinal cestodes, cysticercosis, other larval cestode infections Section 11: Ectoparasites
58 Scabies 59 Louse infestation 60 Other Ectoparasites: Leeches, Myiasis and Sand fleas Section 12: Non-communicable diseases in the tropics
61 Non-Communicable Diseases: Equity, Action & Targets 62 Cardiovascular and vascular disease in the tropics including stroke, hypertension and ischemic heart disease 63 Diabetes in the tropics 64 Cancer in the tropics 65 Hematological diseases in the tropics 66 Renal disease in the tropics 67 Ophthalmology in the tropics and subtropics 68 Dermatological problems 69 Musculoskeletal disorders 70 Respiratory problems in the tropics 71 Tropical Neurology 72 Psychiatry 73 Tropical Oral Health Section 13: Environmental Disorders
74 Environmental Stress 75 Venomous and poisonous animals 76 Plant poisons and traditional medicines Section 14: Nutrition
77 Nutrition-associated Disease 78 Obesity in the tropics Section 15: Maternal/child health
79 Obstetrics in the tropics 80 Pediatrics in the tropics Appendices -
A1 Clinical laboratory diagnosis A2 Parasitic Protozoa A3 Medical helminthology A4 Medical acarology and entomology A5 Sources of Information in Tropical Medicine
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