Title: Lecture notes on tropical medicine.
Authors: Gill, Geoffrey V.; Beeching, N.
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.,
Year: 2004
Subjects: Tropical medicine.; Tropical Medicine
Abstract: A core text with an emphasis on the clinical aspects of problem-solving in the tropics. This new, revised edition includes a more global and syndromic approach to tropical medicine.
Contents: Gastrointestinal presentations -- Respiratory presentations -- Neurological presentations -- Febrile presentations -- Dermatological presentations -- The patient with anaemia -- A syndromic approach to sexually transmitted diseases -- Splenomegaly in the tropics -- Major tropical infections -- Malaria -- Leishmaniasis -- Cutaneous leishmaniasis -- Tuberculosis -- HIV infection and disease in the tropics -- Filariasis and onchocerciasis -- African trypanosomiasis -- South American trypanosomiasis (Chagas disease) -- Schistosomiasis -- Leprosy -- Amoebiasis -- Bacillary dysentery -- Cholera -- Giardiasis.