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MANSON'S TROPICAL DISEASES

"From the difficult to diagnose to the difficult to treat, be prepared for whatever your patients bring back. The revised and updated 22nd edition of Manson's Tropical Diseases provides you with the latest coverage on emerging and re-emerging diseases from around the world, such as multi-d...

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Other Authors: Cook, Gordon C. (Editor), Zumla, Alimuddin I. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: [Edinburgh] Saunders/Elsevier 2009
Edition:Twenty-second edition, International editon
Subjects:
Tropical Medicine
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. History of Tropical Medicine, and Medicine in the Tropics
  • Sect. 1. Underlying Factors in Tropical Medicine
  • 2. Primary Care and Disease Prevention and Control
  • 3. Epidemiology of Disease in the Tropics
  • 4. Traditional Medicine
  • 5. Genetics
  • 6. Immunological Aspects of Tropical Diseases
  • 7. The Economics and Financing of Tropical and Infectious Disease Control
  • 8. Ethics and Tropical Diseases: Some Global Considerations
  • Sect. 2. Symptoms and Signs
  • 9. General Approach to the Patient
  • Sect. 3. System-oriented Disease
  • 10. Tropical Gastroenterological Problems
  • 11. Respiratory Problems in the Tropics
  • 12. Cardiovascular Disease in the Tropics
  • 13. Haematological Diseases in the Tropics
  • 14. Blood Transfusion
  • 15. Renal Disease in the Tropics
  • 16. Tropical Neurology
  • 17. Psychiatry
  • 18. Ophthalmology in the Tropics and Subtropics
  • 19. Dermatological Problems
  • 20. HIV/AIDS and Opportunistic Illnesses
  • 21. Sexually Transmitted Infections (Excluding HIV)
  • 22. Musculoskeletal Diseases
  • Sect. 4. Related Specialities in the Tropics
  • 23. Paediatrics in the Tropics
  • 24. Surgery in the Tropics
  • 25. Obstetrics in the Tropics
  • 26. Trends in Radiology and Imaging Services in the Tropics
  • 27. Tropical Oral Health
  • 28. Travel Health
  • Sect. 5. Environmental/Genetic Disorders
  • 29. Heat Stress and Associated Disorders
  • 30. Nutrition-associated Disease
  • 31. Venomous and Poisonous Animals
  • 32. Plant Poisons
  • 33. Podoconiosis (Non-infectious Geochemical Elephantiasis)
  • 34. Familial Mediterranean Fever (Recurrent Hereditary Polyserositis)
  • 35. Malignant Disease
  • 36. Diabetes in the Tropics
  • 38. Ischaemic Heart Disease
  • Sect. 6. Viral Infection
  • 39. Viral Hepatitis
  • 40. Arbovirus Infections
  • 41. Dengue and Dengue Haemorrhagic Fever
  • 42. Viral Haemorrhagic Fevers
  • 43. Epstein-Barr Virus and Associated Diseases
  • 44. Rabies
  • 45. Diarrhoea Caused by Viruses
  • 46. Respiratory Viruses
  • 47. Cutaneous Viral Diseases
  • 48. Virus Infections of the Central Nervous System
  • Sect. 7. Rickettsial Infections
  • 49. Rickettsial Infections
  • Sect. 8. Bacterial Infections
  • 50. Introduction to Acute Infective Diarrhoea
  • 51. Bacterial Enteropathogens
  • 52. Salmonella Infections
  • 53. Resistant Gut Bacteria
  • 54. Pneumococcal Diseases
  • 55. Bacterial Meningitis
  • 56. Tuberculosis
  • 57. Human Disease due to Environmental Mycobacteria and Nocardiae
  • 58. Leprosy
  • 59. Brucellosis
  • 60. Actinomycosis and Whipple disease
  • 61. Bartonellosis, Cat-scratch Disease, Trench Fever, Human Erlichiosis
  • 62. Tularaemia
  • 63. Anthrax
  • 64. Tetanus
  • 65. Plague
  • 66. Melioidosis
  • 67. Diphtheria
  • 68. Endemic Treponematoses
  • 69. Other Spirochaetal Diseases (excluding Treponema spp. and Leptospira spp.)
  • 70. Leptospirosis
  • Sect. 9. Mycotic Infections
  • 71. Fungal Infections
  • 72. Pneumocystis jiroveci Infection
  • Sect. 10. Protozoan Infections
  • 73. Malaria
  • 74. Babesiosis
  • 75. Human African Trypanosomiasis
  • 76. American Trypanosomiasis (Chagas' Disease)
  • 77. Leishmaniasis
  • 78. Toxoplasmosis
  • 79. Intestinal Protozoa
  • 80. Potentially Pathogenic Free-living Amoebae
  • 81. Trichomonal Infection
  • Sect. 11. Helminthic Infections
  • 82. Schistosomiasis
  • 83. Food-borne Trematodes
  • 84. Filariases
  • 85. Soil-transmitted Helminths (Geohelminths)
  • 86. Echinococcosis/Hydatidosis
  • 87. Other Cestode Infections: Intestinal Cestodes, Cysticercosis, Other Larval Cestode Infections
  • Sect. 12. Ectoparasites
  • 88. Ectoparasites: Leeches and Leech Infestation, Myiasis, Jigger Fleas, Scabies, Louse Infestation
  • 89. Arthropod Dermatoses, Stings, Bites, Allergies and Neuroses
  • Appendices
  • Online only
  • I. Laboratory Diagnosis
  • II. Parasitic Protozoa
  • III. Medical Helminthology
  • IV. Medical Acarology and Entomology
  • V. Sources of Information in Tropical Medicine

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