Tropical dermatology
By: [edited by] Stephen K. Tyring, Omar Lupi, Ulrich R. Hengge.
Contributors: Tyring, Stephen K.; Lupi, Omar.; Hengge, Ulrich R., 1963-
Publisher: Elsevier Churchill Livingstone
Published: 2006
Place of publication: [Edinburgh; New York]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 515
ISBN-13: 9780443067907
Subjects: Skin Diseases, Infectious; Bacterial Infections; Tropical Medicine; Dermatologie; Tropen (geografie); Dermatology; Tropical medicine; Skin -- Diseases
Description: Provides concise discussions of epidemiology, diagnosis, differential diagnosis, pathology, laboratory tests, management, and prevention for both common and rare conditions. Examines the full range of tropical skin diseases, both common and rare, as well as issues for travelers, important considerations for people working in the tropics, and non-infectious conditions. Structures clinical guidance by disease rather than by microbe or "bug".
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Syndromal tropical dermatology / Stephen K. Tyring; title: Issues for travelers / David B. Huang, Jashin J. Wu and Charles D. Ericsson; title: Working in the tropics / Ross Barnetson and Anthony White; title: Trypanosomiasis / Ivan Semenovitch and Omar Lupi; title: Leishmaniasis / Jackson Machado-Pinto and Rubem David Azulay; title: Cutaneous manifestations of infection by free-living amebas / Francisco G. Bravo ... [et al.]; title: Nematodal helminths / Sam Kalungi ... [et al.]; title: Other helminths / Francis T. Assimwe ... [et al.]; title: Cestodes / Jackson Machado-Pinto; title: Trematodes / Peter Leutscher and Pascal Magnussen; title: HIV and HIV-associated disorders / Janek Maniar and Ratnakar Kamath; title: Hemorrhagic fevers / Stephen K. Tyring ... [et al.]; title: Poxviruses / Joachim Richter, Karl Heinz Richter and Dieter Häussinger; title: Measles / Beatriz Meza-Valencia and Denise M. Demers; title: HTLV-1 / Jennifer Aranda and Maria L. Turner; title: Tropical manifestations of common viral infections / Jashin J. Wu ... [et al.]; title: Superficial mycoses and dermatophytes / Seema Patel ... [et al.]; title: Subcutaneous mycoses / Antônio Carlos Francescone do Valle ... [et al.]; title: Systemic fungal infections / Clarisse Zaitz ... [et al.]; title: Meningococcal disease / Charles Moon and Jeffrey Meffert; title: Staphylococcal and streptococcal pyodermas / Paul M. Benson and Ulrich R. Hengge; title: Mycobacteria / Leninha Valério do Nascimento ... [et al.]; title: Ricketsial infections / Katie R. Pang ...  [et al.]; title: Ehrlichioses / Juan P. Olano; title: Bartonellosis / Francisco G. Bravo; title: Bacterial sexually transmitted disease / Omar Lupi ... [et al.]; title: Other spirochetoses / Cláudia Pires do Amaral Maia ... [et al.]; title: Anthrax, plague, diphtheria, trachoma and miscellaneous bacteria / Stephen K. Tyring ... [et al.]; title: Scabies / Bart Currie and Ulrich R. Hengge; title: Pediculosis / Christine Ko and Dirk M. Elston; title: Myiasis / Fábio Francescone and Omar Lupi; title: Nutritional diseases / Ana Maria Mosca de Cerqueira and Wânia Mara del Favero; title: Fogo selvagem / Evandro Rivitti ... [et al.]; title: Pigmentary disorders / Antoine Mahé; title: Environmental causes of dermatitis / Joao Paulo Niemeyer-Corbellini ... [et al.].