Full Description
Tropical Diseases outlines the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of diseases encountered in developing regions---areas where the unexpected can occur and where Western medical capabilities are often unavailable. Taking a pragmatic approach, it is an invaluable reference and resource for medical professionals and students travelling abroad or working in unfamiliar terrain.
Diseases profiled here include a brief historical background, main signs and symptoms, and practical methods of individual prevention and treatment. Additional features include:
- Over 60 maps depicting the geographic origins and modern distribution of tropical diseases
- A classification scheme for parasitic diseases according to the location of the final parasitic stage in the human body
- Clinical case studies
For the new or experienced health care provider, Tropical Diseases is a handy, practical guide to treating and avoiding disease in any environment.
Contents
Book Introduction ; About the Main and Contributing Authors ; Acknowledgements ; Disease and Patient Introduction ; Part One: Parasitic Diseases ; Blood and Lymphatic System Diseases ; * Filariasis (lymphatic) ; * Leishmaniasis (visceral, or kala azar, or dum dum disease) ; * Malaria (or blackwater fever) ; * Trypanosomiasis (African, or sleeping sickness) ; * Trypanosomiasis (American, or Chagas disease) ; Digestive Tract Diseases ; * Amebiasis (intestinal) ; * Amebiasis (liver) ; * Amebiasis (ameboma) ; * Balantidiasis (or balantidiosis) ; * Ancylostomiasis (or hookworm disease) ; * Ascariasis ; * Distomatosis (biliary/liver, or biliary/liver fluke infection including opistorchiasis and fascioliasis) ; * Distomatosis (intestinal) ; * Giardiasis (or beaver fever) ; * Schistosomiasis (intestinal) ; * Strongyloidiasis ; * Trichuriasis (or whipworm disease) ; Lung Disease ; * Paragonimiasis (or lung fluke infection) ; Nail and Hair Diseases ; Nail Diseases ; * Candidiasis (or moniliasis) ; * Dermatophytosis ; Hair Diseases ; * Pediculosis capitis (or head lice) ; * Pthiriasis (or crabs) ; * Tinea capitis (or head ringworm) ; Sexual Organ Diseases ; * Candidiasis (or moniliasis) ; * Trichomoniasis ; Skin and Integumentary System Diseases ; * Candidiasis (or moniliasis) ; * Dermatophytosis ; * Dracunculiasis (or Guinea worm disease or dracontiasis) ; * Leishmaniasis (cutaneous) ; * Leishmaniasis (muco-cutaneous) ; * Loiasis (or eyeworm disease) ; * Malasseziosis (or pityriasis versicolor) ; * Myiasis (or tumba fly) ; * Onchocerciasis (or river blindness) ; * Pediculosis corporis (or body lice) ; * Scabies (or Norwegian itch) ; * Tinea nigra palmis and plantaris ; * Tungiasis ; Urinary Tract Diseases ; * Schistosomiasis (urinary) ; Parasitic Dead-ends and Larval Diseases ; * Angiostrongyliasis ; * Cenurosis ; * Cysticercosis ; * Gnathostomiasis ; * Hydatidosis ; * Larva migrans (cutaneous, or creeping eruption) ; * Linguatulosis ; * Porocephalosis ; * Sparganosis ; * Toxocariasis (or visceral larva migrans or roudworm infection) ; * Trichinellosis ; Part Two: Deep Fungal Diseases ; * Basidiobolomycosis ; * Blastomycosis (North American, or Gilchrist disease or Chicago disease) ; * Blastomycosis (South American, or Lutz-Splendore-Almeida disease) ; * Chromomycosis ; * Coccidioidomycosis (or Posada, Wernicke and Rixford disease) ; * Conidiobolomycosis ; * Histoplasmosis (African) ; * Histoplasmosis (American, or Darling disease) ; * Lobomycosis (or Jorge Lobo disease) ; * Mycetoma (or Madura foot) ; * Pythiosis ; * Rhinosporidiosis ; * Scytalidiosis ; Part Three: Bacterial, Chlamydial and Prion Diseases ; Bacterial Diseases ; * Anthrax ; * Bartonellosis (or Carrion disease) ; * Bejel (or endemic syphilis) ; * Buruli ulcers (or Bairnsdale or Daintree or Mossman or Searls ulcer, or mycoburuli ulcers) ; * Diphtheria ; * Chancroid (or soft chancre, or ulcus molle) ; * Cholera ; * Gonorrhea (or clap) ; * Granuloma inguinale (or Donovan disease) ; * Leprosy (or Hansen disease) ; * Leptospirosis (or Weil disease, or Nanukayami fever) ; * Melioidosis (or Whitmore disease) ; * Meningococcal meningitis ; * Pertussis (or whooping cough) ; * Pinta (or carate) ; * Plague (or black death) ; * Salmonellosis (typhoid fever or enteric fever) ; * Salmonellosis (Salmonella gastroenteritis) ; * Shigellosis ; * Syphilis (or hard chancre) ; * Tuberculosis (or TB) ; * Yaws (or pian, or parangi, or paru, or frambesia tropica) ; Chlamydial Diseases ; * Lymphogranuloma venereum (or Durand-Nicholas-Favre disease) ; * Trachoma (or granular conjunctivitis or Egyptian ophthalmia) ; * Urethritis and cervicitis ; Prion Disease ; * Variant Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease ; Part Four: Viral Diseases ; Common Diseases ; * Dengue fever (or breakbone fever) ; * Hepatitis ; * Herpes simplex (or cold or fever sore) ; * HIV/AIDS ; * Influenza (flu) ; * Measles ; * Poliomyelitis (or polio) ; * Yellow fever (or black vomit) ; Rare Diseases ; * Arboviral diseases ; * Arenaviral diseases (including Tacaribe complex and Lassa fever diseases) ; * Bunyaviral diseases (including Rift Valley fever -RVF-) ; * Coronaviral disease (S.A.R.S.) ; * Filoviral diseases (including Ebola and Marburg virus diseases) ; * Flaviviral diseases ; * Hantaviral diseases (including Hantan virosis) ; * Paramyxoviral diseases (including Hendra and Nipah viroses) ; * Reoviral diseases (including rotavirus disease) ; * Rhabdoviral diseases (including Mossuril virus and lyssavirus diseases) ; * Togaviral diseases (including Chikungunya virus disease) ; Part Five: Other Tropical Health Hazards ; Animal-induced Diseases ; * Bees and hymenoptera ; * Butterflies ; * Cats (including allergies, cat bite, cat scratch disease, mycoses, rabies, scabies, taeniasis, tetanus, toxocarosis) ; * Centipedes ; * Dogs (including dog bite, cutaneous larva migrans, linguatulosis, mycoses, rabies, scabies, tetanus, toxocarosis) ; * Fish ; * Fleas (including murine typhus, plague, taeniasis, tungiasis) ; * Jelly fish/Anemones/Physaliae ; * Leeches ; * Lice (including epidemic louse-borne typhus, pediculosis capitis, pediculosis corporis, pthiriasis, trench fever, ubiquitous relapsing fever) ; * Mollusks ; * Muraenae (or moray eels) ; * Rats (including sodoku, tetanus) ; * Scorpions ; * Snakes ; * Spiders ; * Ticks (including arboviroses, regional relapsing fever) ; * Trombiculidae (scrub typhus) ; Exotic Food Poisoning ; * Ciguatera ; * Other ichtyosarcotoxisms ; * Fish poisoning ; * Mushroom poisoning ; Heat-related Illnesses ; * Miliaria (or prickly heat) ; * Tropical anhidrotic asthenia (or heat asthenia) ; * Heat exhaustion ; * Heat stroke ; Travelers and Tropical Diseases ; * Mortality/morbidity ; * Precautions to take before, during and after traveling ; * Traveler's diarrhea (or turista) ; Antibiotic Resistance ; Addendum ; * Differential diagnosis ; * Diarrhea ; * Fever ; * Pruritus ; * Splenomegaly ; International Generic and Brand Names of Drugs ; Contraindications for Drugs ; List of FDA-Approved Vaccines ; List of Vaccines Available in France ; Link to Major International Healthcare Organizations ; Map and Table Indexes ; Patient Cases Index ; Disease Index ; Symptom Index ; Meaning of Abbreviations ; Key Words ; Abstract ; References
