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Tropical Diseases

Tropical Diseases

A Practical Guide for Medical Practitioners and Students

9780199997909
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Tropical Diseases outlines the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of diseases encountered in developing regions--areas where the unexpected can occur and where Western medical capabilities are often unavailable. Taking a pragmatic approach, it is an invaluable reference and resource for medical professionals and students travelling abroad or working in unfamiliar terrain. Diseases profiled here include a brief historical background, main signs and symptoms, and practical methods of individual prevention and treatment. Additional features include:: - Over 60 maps depicting the geographic origins and modern distribution of tropical diseases - A classification scheme for parasitic diseases according to the location of the final parasitic stage in the human body - Clinical case studies For the new or experienced health care provider, Tropical Diseases is a handy, practical guide to treating and avoiding disease in any environment.
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OUP USA
87213
9780199997909
9780199997909

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Publication date
2013
Issue number
1
Cover
paperback
Pages count
416
Dimensions (mm)
127 x 203
Weight (g)
399
  • Book Introduction; About the Main and Contributing Authors; Acknowledgements; Disease and Patient Introduction; Part One: Parasitic Diseases; Blood and Lymphatic System Diseases; · Filariasis (lymphatic); · Leishmaniasis (visceral, or kala azar, or dum dum disease); · Malaria (or blackwater fever); · Trypanosomiasis (African, or sleeping sickness); · Trypanosomiasis (American, or Chagas disease); Digestive Tract Diseases; · Amebiasis (intestinal); · Amebiasis (liver); · Amebiasis (ameboma); · Balantidiasis (or balantidiosis); · Ancylostomiasis (or hookworm disease); · Ascariasis; · Distomatosis (biliary/liver, or biliary/liver fluke infection including opistorchiasis and fascioliasis); · Distomatosis (intestinal); · Giardiasis (or beaver fever); · Schistosomiasis (intestinal); · Strongyloidiasis; · Trichuriasis (or whipworm disease); Lung Disease; · Paragonimiasis (or lung fluke infection); Nail and Hair Diseases; Nail Diseases; · Candidiasis (or moniliasis); · Dermatophytosis; Hair Diseases; · Pediculosis capitis (or head lice); · Pthiriasis (or crabs); · Tinea capitis (or head ringworm); Sexual Organ Diseases; · Candidiasis (or moniliasis); · Trichomoniasis; Skin and Integumentary System Diseases; · Candidiasis (or moniliasis); · Dermatophytosis; · Dracunculiasis (or Guinea worm disease or dracontiasis); · Leishmaniasis (cutaneous); · Leishmaniasis (muco-cutaneous); · Loiasis (or eyeworm disease); · Malasseziosis (or pityriasis versicolor); · Myiasis (or tumba fly); · Onchocerciasis (or river blindness); · Pediculosis corporis (or body lice); · Scabies (or Norwegian itch); · Tinea nigra palmis and plantaris; · Tungiasis; Urinary Tract Diseases; · Schistosomiasis (urinary); Parasitic Dead-ends and Larval Diseases; · Angiostrongyliasis; · Cenurosis; · Cysticercosis; · Gnathostomiasis; · Hydatidosis; · Larva migrans (cutaneous, or creeping eruption); · Linguatulosis; · Porocephalosis; · Sparganosis; · Toxocariasis (or visceral larva migrans or roudworm infection); · Trichinellosis; Part Two: Deep Fungal Diseases; · Basidiobolomycosis; · Blastomycosis (North American, or Gilchrist disease or Chicago disease); · Blastomycosis (South American, or Lutz-Splendore-Almeida disease); · Chromomycosis; · Coccidioidomycosis (or Posada, Wernicke and Rixford disease); · Conidiobolomycosis; · Histoplasmosis (African); · Histoplasmosis (American, or Darling disease); · Lobomycosis (or Jorge Lobo disease); · Mycetoma (or Madura foot); · Pythiosis; · Rhinosporidiosis; · Scytalidiosis; Part Three: Bacterial, Chlamydial and Prion Diseases; Bacterial Diseases; · Anthrax; · Bartonellosis (or Carrion disease); · Bejel (or endemic syphilis); · Buruli ulcers (or Bairnsdale or Daintree or Mossman or Searls ulcer, or mycoburuli ulcers); · Diphtheria; · Chancroid (or soft chancre, or ulcus molle); · Cholera; · Gonorrhea (or clap); · Granuloma inguinale (or Donovan disease); · Leprosy (or Hansen disease); · Leptospirosis (or Weil disease, or Nanukayami fever); · Melioidosis (or Whitmore disease); · Meningococcal meningitis; · Pertussis (or whooping cough); · Pinta (or carate); · Plague (or black death); · Salmonellosis (typhoid fever or enteric fever); · Salmonellosis (Salmonella gastroenteritis); · Shigellosis; · Syphilis (or hard chancre); · Tuberculosis (or TB); · Yaws (or pian, or parangi, or paru, or frambesia tropica); Chlamydial Diseases; · Lymphogranuloma venereum (or Durand-Nicholas-Favre disease); · Trachoma (or granular conjunctivitis or Egyptian ophthalmia); · Urethritis and cervicitis; Prion Disease; · Variant Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease; Part Four: Viral Diseases; Common Diseases; · Dengue fever (or breakbone fever); · Hepatitis; · Herpes simplex (or cold or fever sore); · HIV/AIDS; · Influenza (flu); · Measles; · Poliomyelitis (or polio); · Yellow fever (or black vomit); Rare Diseases; · Arboviral diseases; · Arenaviral diseases (including Tacaribe complex and Lassa fever diseases); · Bunyaviral diseases (including Rift Valley fever -RVF-); · Coronaviral disease (S.A.R.S.); · Filoviral diseases (including Ebola and Marburg virus diseases); · Flaviviral diseases; · Hantaviral diseases (including Hantan virosis); · Paramyxoviral diseases (including Hendra and Nipah viroses); · Reoviral diseases (including rotavirus disease); · Rhabdoviral diseases (including Mossuril virus and lyssavirus diseases); · Togaviral diseases (including Chikungunya virus disease); Part Five: Other Tropical Health Hazards; Animal-induced Diseases; · Bees and hymenoptera; · Butterflies; · Cats (including allergies, cat bite, cat scratch disease, mycoses, rabies, scabies, taeniasis, tetanus, toxocarosis); · Centipedes; · Dogs (including dog bite, cutaneous larva migrans, linguatulosis, mycoses, rabies, scabies, tetanus, toxocarosis); · Fish; · Fleas (including murine typhus, plague, taeniasis, tungiasis); · Jelly fish/Anemones/Physaliae; · Leeches; · Lice (including epidemic louse-borne typhus, pediculosis capitis, pediculosis corporis, pthiriasis, trench fever, ubiquitous relapsing fever); · Mollusks; · Muraenae (or moray eels); · Rats (including sodoku, tetanus); · Scorpions; · Snakes; · Spiders; · Ticks (including arboviroses, regional relapsing fever); · Trombiculidae (scrub typhus); Exotic Food Poisoning; · Ciguatera; · Other ichtyosarcotoxisms; · Fish poisoning; · Mushroom poisoning; Heat-related Illnesses; · Miliaria (or prickly heat); · Tropical anhidrotic asthenia (or heat asthenia); · Heat exhaustion; · Heat stroke; Travelers and Tropical Diseases; · Mortality/morbidity; · Precautions to take before, during and after traveling; · Travelers diarrhea (or turista); Antibiotic Resistance; Addendum; · Differential diagnosis; * Diarrhea; * Fever; * Pruritus; * Splenomegaly; International Generic and Brand Names of Drugs; Contraindications for Drugs; List of FDA-Approved Vaccines; List of Vaccines Available in France; Link to Major International Healthcare Organizations; Map and Table Indexes; Patient Cases Index; Disease Index; Symptom Index; Meaning of Abbreviations; Key Words; Abstract; References;
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