Clinical cases in tropical medicine. ([2015])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Camilla Rothe, MD DTM & H, Clinical Lecturer, Department of Medicine, Division of Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases, University of Hamburg School of Medicine, Hamburg, Germany.
• Authors: Rothe, Camilla
• Contents: A 20-year-old Woman from Sudan with Fever, Haemorrhage and Shock -- A 7-year-old Girl from Peru with a Chronic Skin Ulcer -- A 26-year-old Woman from Malawi with Headache, Confusion and Unilateral Ptosis -- A 4-year-old Girl from Uganda in Coma -- A 4-year-old Boy from Laos with a Lesion of the Lip and Cheek -- A 36-year-old Male Traveller Returning from Botswana with a Creeping Eruption -- A 28-year-old Male Fisherman from Malawi with Shortness of Breath -- A 26-year-old Female Traveller Returning from Ghana with a Boil on the Leg -- A 16-year-old Girl from Vietnam with Fever, Headache and Myalgias -- A 55-year-old Indigenous Woman from Australia with a Widespread Exfoliating Rash and Sepsis -- A 45-year-old Male Security Guard from Malawi with Difficulties in Walking and Back Pain -- A 29-year-old Man from The Gambia with Genital Ulceration -- A 16-year-old Girl from Malawi with Fever and Abdominal Pain -- A 22-year-old Woman from Bangladesh with Profuse Watery Diarrhoea -- A 3-year-old Boy from Laos with Right Suppurative Parotitis -- A 25-year-old Female School Teacher from Malawi with Abrupt Onset of a Febrile Confusional State -- A 34-year-old Man from Thailand with Fever and a Papular Rash -- A 43-year-old Male Traveller with Fever and Eosinophilia -- A 40-year-old Man from Togo with Subcutaneous Nodules and Corneal Changes -- A 56-year-old Man Returning from a Trip to Thailand with Eosinophilia -- A 35-year-old American Man with Fatigue and a Neck Lesion -- A 32-year-old Woman from Nigeria with Jaundice and Confusion -- A 31-year-old HIV-Positive Man with Extensive Travel History, with Cough and Night Sweats -- A 14-year-old Boy from Rural Tanzania with Difficulties in Walking -- A 72-year-old Male Farmer from Laos with Extensive Skin Lesions on the Lower Leg -- A 14-year-old boy from Malawi who has been bitten by a snake -- A 16-year-old Boy from Sri Lanka with Fever, Jaundice and Renal Failure -- A 67-year-old Female Expatriate Living in Cameroon with Eosinophilia and Pericarditis -- A 35-year-old Woman from Malawi with Fever and Progressive Weakness -- A 35-year-old Woman from Malawi with Fever and Progressive Weakness -- A 12-year-old Boy from Rural Kenya with Painful Eyes -- A 6-year-old Boy from Malawi with Fever, Cough and Impaired Consciousness -- A 44-year-old Male Farmer from Laos with Diabetes and a Back Abscess -- A 53-year-old Man from Malawi with a Chronic Cough -- A 35-year-old Male Farmer from Peru with a Chronic Ulcer and Multiple Nodular Lesions on the Arm -- A 32-year-old Woman from Malawi with Headache and Blurred Vision. A 25-year-old Buddhist Monk from Myanmar with Unilateral Scrotal Swelling -- A 29-year-old Woman from Malawi with Confusion, Diarrhoea and a Skin Rash -- A 24-year-old Female Globetrotter from The Netherlands with Strange Sensations in the Right Side of Her Body -- A 30-year-old Male Trader from China with Persistent Fever -- A 62-year-old Woman from Ethiopia with Difficulty Eating -- A 7-year-old Girl from West Africa with Two Skin Ulcers and a Contracture of Her Right Wrist -- A 41-year-old Male Traveller Returning from Australia with Itchy Eruptions on Both Upper Thighs -- A 35-year-old Woman from Malawi with a Painful Ocular Tumour -- A 7-year-old Girl from South Sudan with Undulating Fever -- A 2-month-old Girl from Laos with Dyspnoea, Cyanosis and Irritability -- A 45-year-old Man from Sri Lanka with Fever and Right Hypochondrial Pain -- A 32-year-old Man from Malawi with a Painfully Swollen Neck -- A 31-year-old Woman from Tanzania with Acute Flaccid Paraplegia -- A 33-year-old Male Traveller to India with Diarrhoea and Flatulence for Two Weeks -- A 24-year-old Man of Turkish Origin with Jaundice and Cystic Liver Lesions -- A 34-year-old HIV-Reactive Woman from Malawi with Slowly Progressive Half-Sided Weakness -- A 56-year-old Man from Peru with Prolonged Fever and Severe Anaemia -- A 24-year-old Woman from Uganda with Fever and Shock -- A 52-year-old Male Safari Tourist Returning from South Africa with Fever and a Skin Lesion -- A 40-year-old Male Farmer from Peru with Chronic Cough and Weight Loss -- A 21-year-old Pregnant Woman from The Gambia with a Rash -- A 37-year-old Woman from Malawi with Haematemesis -- A 25-year-old Woman from Egypt with Severe Chronic Diarrhoea and Malabsorption -- A 24-year-old Man from Malawi with Skin Lesions and Breathlessness -- A 6-year-old Boy from Malawi with Proptosis of the Left Eye -- A 48-year-old Woman from Thailand with Fever and Disseminated Cutaneous Abscesses, Lymphadenopathy and Swelling of her Left Elbow -- A 28-year-old Man from Ghana with a Chronic Ulcer on His Ankle -- A 38-year-old Expatriate Man Living in Malawi with Difficulties Passing Urine -- A 40-year-old Woman from Thailand and Her Brother-in-Law with Severe Headache -- A 4-year-old Girl from Bolivia with a Dark Nodule on Her Toe -- A 32-year-old Man from Malawi with Pain in the Right Upper Abdomen and a Feeling of Faintness -- A 24-year-old Woman from the Peruvian Andes with Fever and Abdominal Pain -- A 31-year-old Woman from Malawi with a Generalized Mucocutaneous Rash -- A 22-year-old Male Farmer from Rural Ethiopia with Difficulty Walking -- A 58-year-old Woman from Sri Lanka with Fever, Deafness and Confusion -- A 71-year-old Man from Japan with Eosinophilia and a Nodular Lesion in the Lung -- A 4-year-old Boy from Mozambique with Severe Oedema and Skin Lesions -- A 38-year-old Woman from Malawi with Chronic Anaemia and Splenomegaly -- A 28-year-old Woman from Sierra Leone with Fever and Conjunctivitis -- A 25-year-old Woman from Zambia with a New Onset Seizure -- A 55-year old Woman from Turkey with Fever of Unknown Origin.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Elsevier Saunders
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxii, 289 pages), illustrations (chiefly color)
• Subjects: 616.9/883; Tropical medicine -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Tropical medicine; HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General; MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine; MEDICAL -- Diseases; MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine; MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine; Tropical medicine; Handbooks; Electronic books; Handbooks and manuals
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780702058264; 0702058262
• Related ISBNs: 9780702058240; 0702058246
• Notes: Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (ClinicalKey, viewed May 30, 2014).
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