Previous edition: 2003

"An Expert consult title"--Cover

Includes bibliographical references and index

CONTENTS


History of tropical medicine, and medicine in the tropics
Primary care and disease prevention and control
Epidemiology of disease in the tropics
Traditional medicine
Genetics
Immunological aspects of tropical diseases
The economics and financing of tropical and infectious disease control
Ethics and tropical diseases: some global considerations
General approach to the patient
Tropical gastroenterological problems
Respiratory problems in the tropics
Cardiovascular disease in the tropics
Haematological diseases in the tropics
Blood transfusion
Renal disease in the tropics
Tropical neurology
Psychiatry
Ophthalmology in the tropics and subtropics
Dermatological problems
HIV/AIDS and opportunistic illnesses
Sexually transmitted infections (excluding HIV)
Musculoskeletal diseases
Paediatrics in the tropics
Surgery in the tropics
Obstetrics in the tropics
Trends in radiology and imaging services in the tropics
Tropical oral health
Travel health
Heat stress and associated disorders
Nutrition-associated disease
Venomous and poisonous animals
Plant poisons
Podoconiosis (non-infectious geochemical elephantiasis)
Familial mediterranean fever (recurrent hereditary polyserositis)
Malignant disease
Diabetes in the tropics
Hypertension in the tropics
Ischaemic heart disease
Viral hepatitis
Arbovirus infections
Dengue and dengue haemorrhagic fever

Viral haemorrhagic fevers
Epstein-Barr virus and associated diseases
Rabies
Diarrhoea caused by viruses
Respiratory viruses
Cutaneous viral diseases
Virus infections of the central nervous system
Rickettsial infections
Introduction to acute infective diarrhoea
Bacterial enteropathogens
Salmonella infections
Resistant gut bacteria
Pneumococcal diseases
Bacterial meningitis
Tuberculosis
Human disease due to environmental mycobacteria and nocardiae
Leprosy
Brucellosis
Actinomycosis and whipple disease
Bartonellosis, cat-scratch disease, trench fever, human erlichiosis
Tularaemia
Anthrax
Tetanus
Plague
Melioidosis
Diphtheria
Endemic treponematoses
Other spirochaetal diseases (excluding treponema spp. and leptospira spp.)
Leptospirosis
Fungal infections
Pneumocystis jiroveci infection
Malaria
Babesiosis
Human African trypanosomiasis
American trypanosomiasis (chagas' disease)
Leishmaniasis
Toxoplasmosis
Intestinal protozoa
Potentially pathogenic free-living amoebae
Trichomonal infection
Schistosomiasis
Food-borne trematodes
Filariases
Soil-transmitted helminths (geohelminths)
Echinococcosis/hydatidosis
Other cestode infections: intestinal cestodes, cysticercosis, other larval cestode infections
Ectoparasites: leeches and leech infestation, myiasis, jigger fleas, scabies, louse infestation
Arthropod dermatoses, stings, bites, allergies and neuroses

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 this book provides you with the latest coverage on emerging and re-emerging diseases from around the world, such as multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis and malaria, the avian flu, and more. Boxes and tables highlight key information on current therapies. And now, as an Expert Consult title, you can access the information you need online as well as in print! Features up-to-date information on HIV/AIDS, with an emphasis on Africa; malaria; tropical gastroenterological problems; dengue and dengue hemorrhagic fever; tuberculosis; Sexually Transmitted Diseases; SARS; avian flu; bartonellosis, cat-scratch disease, trench fever, human erlichiosis; and more. Allows you to access the complete contents online, plus appendices on Laboratory Diagnosis, Parasitic Protozoa, Medical Helminthology, Nematodes, Trematodes, Cestodes, Medical Acarology and Entomology, and Sources of Information in Tropical Medicine. Your purchase entitles you to access the website until the next edition is published, or until the current edition is no longer offered for sale by Elsevier, whichever occurs first. If the next edition is published less than one year after your purchase, you will be entitled to online access for one year from your date of purchase. Elsevier reserves the right to offer a suitable replacement product (such as a downloadable or CD-ROM-based electronic version) should online access be discontinued