Kurzbeschreibung Lecture Notes: Tropical Medicine, Sixth Edition, gives students and trainees vital information on the full range of tropical infections and diseases.
Aus dem Inhalt Contributors.
Preface.
List of Abbreviations.
New Drug Names.
Part 1: A General Approach to Syndromes/Symptom Complexes.
1 Gastrointestinal presentations.
2 Respiratory presentations.
3 Neurological presentations.
4 Febrile presentations.
5 Dermatological presentations.
6 The patient with anaemia.
7 A syndromic approach to sexually transmitted infections.
8 Splenomegaly in the tropics.
Part 2: Major Tropical Infections.
9 Malaria.
10 Visceral leishmaniasis.
11 Cutaneous leishmaniasis.
12 Tuberculosis.
13 HIV infection and disease in the tropics.
14 Onchocerciasis, filariasis and loiasis.
15 African trypanosomiasis.
16 South American trypanosomiasis--Chagas' disease.
17 Schistosomiasis.
18 Leprosy.
Part 3: Other Tropical Diseases.
Gastrointestinal.
19 Amoebiasis.
20 Bacillary dysentery.
21 Cholera.
22 Giardiasis and other intestinal protozoal infections.
23 Intestinal cestode infections (tapeworms) including cysticercosis.
24 Soil-transmitted helminths.
25 Viral hepatitis.
26 Liver and intestinal flukes.
27 Hydatid disease.
Respiratory.
28 Pneumonia.
29 Lung flukes.
30 Tropical pulmonary eosinophilia.
Neurological.
31 Pyogenic meningitis.
32 Cryptococcal meningitis.
33 Encephalitis.
34 Acute flaccid paralysis.
35 Spastic paralysis.
36 Rabies.
37 Tetanus.
Fever.
38 Brucellosis.
39 Typhoid and paratyphoid fevers.
40 Arboviruses.
41 Viral haemorrhagic fevers.
42 Dengue and yellow fever.
43 Relapsing fevers.
44 Rickettsial infections.
45 Leptospirosis.
46 Melioidosis.
Miscellaneous.
47 Tropical ulcer.
48 Buruli ulcer.
49 Myiasis.
50 Cutaneous larva migrans.
51 Scabies and lice.
52 Strongyloidiasis.
53 Guinea worm infection (dracunculiasis).
54 Histoplasmosis.
55 Other fungal infections.
56 Haemoglobinopathies and red cell enzymopathies.
