Lecture notes on tropical medicine
By: edited by Geoff Gill, Nick Beeching.
Contributors: Gill, Geoffrey V.; Beeching, N.
Edition: 5th ed.
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Malden, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
Subjects: Tropical Medicine
Other titles: Tropical medicine
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Gastrointestinal presentations; title: Respiratory presentations; title: Neurological presentations; title: Febrile presentations; title: Dermatological presentations; title: The patient with anaemia; title: A syndromic approach to sexually transmitted diseases; title: Splenomegaly in the tropics; title: Malaria; title: Visceral leishmaniasis; title: Cutaneous leishmaniasis; title: Tuberculosis; title: HIV infection and disease in the tropics; title: Filariasis and onchocerciasis; title: African trypanosomiasis; title: South American trypanosomiasis (Chagas' disease); title: Schistosomiasis; title: Leprosy; title: Amoebiasis; title: Bacillary dysentery; title: Cholera; title: Giardiasis and other protozoal infections; title: Intestinal cestode infections (tapeworms) including cysticercosis; title: Soil-transmitted helminths; title: Viral hepatitis; title: Liver flukes; title: Hyatid disease; title: Pneumonia; title: Lung flukes; title: Tropical pulmonary eosinophilia; title: Pyogenic meningitis; title: Cryptococcal meningitis; title: Encephalitis; title: Acute flaccid paralysis; title: Spastic paralysis; title: Rabies; title: Tetanus; title: Brucellosis; title: Typhoid and paratyphoid fevers; title: Arborviruses; title: Viral haemorrhagic fevers; title: Dengue and yellow fever; title: Relapsing fevers; title: Rickettsial infections; title: Leptospirosis; title: Meliodosis; title: Tropical ulcer; title: Buruli ulcer; title: Myiasis; title: Cutaneous larva migrans; title: Scabies and lice; title: Strongyloides stercoralis; title: Guinea worm infection (Dracunculiasis); title: Histoplasmosis; title: Other fungal infections; title: Haemoglobinopathies and red cell enzymopathies; title: Haematinic deficiencies; title: Bites and stings; title: Non-communicable diseases; title: Refugee health.