Tropical infectious diseases : principles, pathogens and practice /: principles, pathogens and practice. (©2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: [edited by] Richard L. Guerrant, David H. Walker, Peter F. Weller.
• Other Names: Guerrant, Richard L; Walker, David H, 1943-; Weller, Peter F
• Contents: Principles of Parasitism: Host-Parasite Interactions -- The Perfect Storm: Climate, Ecosystems and Infectious Diseases -- Epidemiology and Biostatistics -- Social and Cultural Factors in Tropical Medicine: Reframing Our Understanding of Disease -- Nutrition and Micronutrients in Tropical Infectious Diseases -- Host Genetics and Susceptibility to Infection -- Disease Eradication and Control -- Vector Biology -- Immunology, Host Defense, Immunodeficiencies, and Vaccines -- Vaccines in the Tropics -- Tropical Infectious Diseases and Malignancy -- Chemotherapy of Parasitic Diseases -- Chemotherapy of Bacterial, Fungal, and Viral Diseases -- Global Surveillance for Emerging Infectious Diseases -- Enteric Escherichia coli Infections -- Typhoid and Paratyphoid (Enteric) Fever -- Nontyphoidal Salmonellosis -- Shigellosis -- Campylobacter Infections -- Cholera Infections -- Noncholera Vibrio Infections -- Enteric Clostridium Infections -- Helicobacter pylori Infections -- Meningococcal Disease -- Gonococcal and Other Neisserial Infections -- Haemophilus ducreyi Infections -- Donovanosis -- Pneumococcal Infections -- Group A Streptococcal and Staphylococcal Infections -- Pertussis -- Legionellosis -- Melioidosis -- Diphtheria -- Tuberculosis and Atypical Mycobacterial Infections -- Mycobacterium ulcerans Infection (Buruli Ulcer) -- Leprosy -- Anthrax -- Bartonelloses -- Brucellosis -- Plague -- Tetanus -- Treponemal Infections -- Relapsing Fever and Other Borrelia Diseases -- Leptospirosis -- Trachoma -- Chlamydia trachomatis Infections of the Genital Tract (Including Lymphogranuloma Venereum) -- Psittacosis -- Spotted Fever Group Rickettsioses -- Typhus Group Rickettsioses -- Scrub Typhus -- Ehrlichioses and Anaplasmosis -- Q Fever -- Measles. Hendra and Nipah Viral Infections -- Human Herpesvirus Infections -- Smallpox and Related Orthopoxviral Infections -- Respiratory Viral Infections -- Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) -- Enterovirus Infections, Including Poliomyelitis -- Rotavirus Infections -- Calicivirus Infections -- Astroviruses, Enteric Adenoviruses, and Other Gastroenteritis Viral Infections -- Enteric Viral Hepatitis A and E -- Viral Hepatitis C -- Hepatitis B and Deltavirus Infections -- Overview of Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers -- Arenavirus Infections -- Rift Valley Fever -- Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever -- Hantavirus Infections -- Sandfly Fever, Oropouche Fever, and Other Bunyavirus Infections -- Filovirus Infections -- Yellow Fever -- Dengue and Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever -- Japanese Encephalitis, West Nile, and Other Flavivirus Infections -- Tick-borne Encephalitis and Omsk Hemorrhagic Fever -- Alphavirus Infections -- Rabies -- Human Papillomavirus Infections -- Human Retroviral Infections in the Tropics -- Dermatophytosis -- Mycetoma -- Chromoblastomycosis and Phaeohyphomycosis -- Histoplasmosis, Blastomycosis, Coccidioidomycosis, and Cryptococcosis -- Paracoccidioidomycosis -- Penicilliosis Marneffei -- Mucocutaneous and Deeply Invasive Candidiasis -- Mucormycosis -- Entomophthoramycosis, Lobomycosis, Rhinosporidiosis, and Sporotrichosis -- Pneumocystosis -- Enteric Amebiasis -- Intestinal Flagellate and Ciliate Infections -- Cryptosporidiosis -- Cyclospora, Isospora, and Sarcocystis Infections -- Malaria -- Babesiosis -- African Trypanosomiasis (Sleeping Sickness) -- American Trypanosomiasis (Chagas Disease)* -- Leishmaniasis -- Pathogenic and Opportunistic Free-Living Amebae: Acanthamoeba spp., Balamuthia mandrillaris, Naegleria fowleri, and Sappinia pedata -- Microsporidiosis -- Toxoplasmosis. Lymphatic Filariasis -- Loiasis and Mansonella Infections -- Onchocerciasis -- Zoonotic Filariasis -- Dracunculiasis -- Toxocariasis and Larva Migrans Syndromes -- Trichinellosis -- Angiostrongyliasis -- Other Tissue Nematode Infections -- Enterobiasis -- Trichuriasis -- Ascariasis -- Hookworm Infections -- Strongyloidiasis -- Introduction to Tapeworm Infections -- Cysticercosis -- Echinococcosis -- Taenia and Other Tapeworm Infections -- Schistosomiasis -- Liver, Lung, and Intestinal Fluke Infections -- Arthropods, Tongue Worms, Leeches, and Arthropod-borne Diseases -- Distinguishing Tropical Infectious Diseases from Bioterrorism -- Health Advice for International Travel -- Migrant, Immigrant, and Refugee Health -- Infectious Diseases in Modern Military Forces* -- Gastrointestinal Symptoms -- Fever and Systemic Symptoms -- Eosinophilia -- Cutaneous Lesions -- Hepatobiliary Disease -- Approach to the Patient in the Tropics with Pulmonary Disease -- Ocular Disease -- Neurologic Disease -- Approach to the Patient in the Tropics with Anemia -- Sexually Transmitted and Urinary Tract Infections -- Approach to the Patient with HIV and Coinfecting Tropical Infectious Diseases -- Delusional Parasitosis -- Tropical Infectious Disease Concerns in Pregnancy.
• Edition: 3rd ed
• Publisher Details: Edinburgh : Saunders/Elsevier
• Publication Date: 2011
• Copyright Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxiv, 1130 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 616.9/883; Tropical medicine; MEDICAL -- Tropical Medicine; Tropical medicine; Tropical Medicine; Communicable Diseases; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781437737776; 1437737773
• Related ISBNs: 9780702039355; 0702039357
• Notes: Note: Print version record.
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