Lecture Notes: Tropical Medicine

Description

Providing a comprehensive introduction to the study of tropical medicine, this new edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to include new content and more illustrations and clinical photographs to aid understanding. Now fully supported by a companion website containing hundreds of interactive multiple-choice questions, and available in a range of digital formats, Tropical Medicine Lecture Notes is the perfect resource for study and revision, and is the ideal companion for those practising medicine in tropical and sub-tropical regions.

• New edition of the best-selling tropical medicine textbook
• Brand new chapters covering Ophthalmology and Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs)
• Increased coverage of malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS
• More colour illustrations and photographs for greater clarity and understanding
• Fully supported by a companion website written by Dom Colbert at www.lecturenoteseries.com/tropicalmed containing hundreds of interactive self-assessment MCQs, figures from the book in PowerPoint format and a “Quick guide” table of tropical diseases
• Now available in a range of digital formats - perfect for on the go study and clinical practice

Table of Contents

Contributors

Preface

List of Abbreviations

New Drug Names

Part 1: A General Approach to Syndromes/Symptom Complexes

1 Gastrointestinal presentations
2 Respiratory presentations
3 Neurological presentations
4 Febrile presentations
5 Dermatological presentations
6 The patient with anaemia
7 A syndromic approach to sexually transmitted infections
8 Splenomegaly in the tropics

Part 2: Major Tropical Infections

9 Malaria
10 Visceral leishmaniasis
11 Cutaneous leishmaniasis
12 Tuberculosis
13 HIV infection and disease in the tropics
14 Onchocerciasis, filariasis and loiasis
15 African trypanosomiasis
16 South American trypanosomiasis—Chagas’ disease
17 Schistosomiasis
18 Leprosy

Part 3: Other Tropical Diseases Gastrointestinal

19 Amoebiasis
20 Bacillary dysentery
21 Cholera
22 Giardiasis and other intestinal protozoal infections
23 Intestinal cestode infections (tapeworms) including cysticercosis
24 Soil-transmitted helminths
25 Viral hepatitis
26 Liver and intestinal flukes
27 Hydatid disease Respiratory
28 Pneumonia
29 Lung flukes
30 Tropical pulmonary eosinophilia Neurological
31 Pyogenic meningitis
32 Cryptococcal meningitis
33 Encephalitis
34 Acute flaccid paralysis
35 Spastic paralysis
36 Rabies
37 Tetanus Fever
38 Brucellosis
39 Typhoid and paratyphoid fevers
40 Arboviruses
41 Viral haemorrhagic fevers
42 Dengue and yellow fever
43 Relapsing fevers
44 Rickettsial infections
45 Leptospirosis
46 Melioidosis Miscellaneous
47 Tropical ulcer
48 Buruli ulcer
49 Myiasis
50 Cutaneous larva migrans
51 Scabies and lice
52 Strongyloidiasis
53 Guinea worm infection (dracunculiasis)
54 Histoplasmosis
55 Other fungal infections
56 Haemoglobinopathies and red cell enzymopathies
57 Haematinic deficiencies
58 Bites and stings
59 Non-communicable diseases
60 Refugee health
61 Syndromes of malnutrition
62 Eye disease in the Tropics
63 Neglected tropical diseases

Index