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Description

From the difficult to diagnose to the difficult to treat, Manson’s Tropical Diseases prepares you to effectively handle whatever your patients may have contracted. Featuring an internationally recognized editorial team, global contributors, and expert authors, this revised and updated medical reference book provides you with the latest coverage on parasitic and infectious diseases from around the world.

New to this Edition

• Make the most accurate Tropical Disease diagnoses through a completely redesigned and modernized format, which includes full-color images throughout plus a wealth of additional illustrations online at Expert Consult.
• Apply the latest treatment strategies for HIV/AIDS, tropical neurology, malaria, and much more.
• Put the latest international expertise to work for you and your patients with new chapters covering Global Health; Global Health Governance and Tropical Diseases; Non-communicable Diseases; Obesity in the Tropics; and Emergency and Intensive Care Medicine in Resource-poor Settings.
• See which diseases are most prevalent in specific areas of the tropics through a new index of diseases by country, as well as online-only maps that provide additional detail.
• Better understand the variations in treatment approaches across the globe.

Key Features

• Incorporate the latest therapies into your practice, such as recently approved drugs and new treatment options.
• Find what you need easily and apply it quickly with highlighted key information, convenient boxes and tables, extensive cross-referencing, and clinical management diagrams.

Table of Contents

• 1 History of tropical medicine, and medicine in the tropics

Section 1: Public Health & Economics

• 2 Global health
• 3 Global health governance and tropical diseases
• 4 The Economic Case for Devoting Public Resources to Health

Section 2: Health Research and Ethics

• 5 Ethics and Tropical Diseases: Some Global Considerations

Section 3: Epidemiology

• 6 Issues and challenges of public-health research in developing countries

Section 4: Clinical assessment

• 7 Emergency and intensive care medicine in resource poor settings
• 8 Ultrasound in tropical medicine

Section 5: Viral Infection

• 9 HIV: Epidemiology in the Tropics
• 10 Clinical Features and Management of HIV/AIDS
• 11 HIV/AIDS in children
• 12 HIV/AIDS prevention
• 13 Viral hepatitis
• 14 Arbovirus infections
• 15 Dengue
• 16 Viral hemorrhagic fevers
• 17 Rabies
• 18 Rotavirus and other viral diarrhea
• 19 Respiratory viruses and atypical bacteria
• 20 Viral Exanthems
• 21 Virus infections of the nervous system

Section 6: Bacterial Infections

• 22 Tropical rickettsial infections
• 23 Sexually transmitted infections (excluding HIV)
• 24 Bacterial Enteropathogens (Shigella, dystentery, cholorea, E coli)
• 25 Salmonella infections
• 26 Pneumococcal disease
• 27 Bacterial meningitis
• 28 Brucellosis
• 29 Noma, Actinomycisis and Nocardia
• 30 Bartonellosis, Cat-scratch Disease, Trench Fever, Human Erlichiosis
• 31 Anthrax
• 32 Tetanus
• 33 Plague
• 34 Melioidosis
• 35 Diphtheria
• 36 Endemic treponematosis including yaws and other spirochetes
• 37 Leptospirosis

Section 7: Fungal Infections

• 38 Fungal Infections
• 39 Pneumocystis jirovecii infection

Section 8: Mycobacterial Infections

• 40 Tuberculosis
• 41 Leprosy
• 42 Mycobacterium ulcerans disease

Section 9: Protozoan Infections

• 43 Malaria
• 44 Babesiosis
• 45 Human African trypanosomiasis
• 46 American Trypanosomiasis: Chagas Disease
• 47 Leishmaniasis
• 48 Toxoplasmosis
• 49 Intestinal Protozoa
• 50 Pathogenic and Opportunistic Free-Living Amebae: Agents of Human and Animal Disease
• 51 Trichomonas vaginalis

Section 10: Helminthic Infections

• 52 Schistosomiasis
• 53 Food-borne Trematodes
• 54 The filariases
• 55 Soil-transmitted Helminths (Geohelminths)
• 56 Echinococcosis/Hydatidosis
• 57 Other Cestode Infections: Intestinal cestodes, cysticercosis, other larval cestode infections

Section 11: Ectoparasites

• 58 Scabies
• 59 Louse infestation
• 60 Other Ectoparasites: Leeches, Myiasis and Sand fleas

Section 12: Non-communicable diseases in the tropics

• 61 Non-Communicable Diseases: Equity, Action & Targets
• 62 Cardiovascular and vascular disease in the tropics including stroke, hypertension and ischemic heart disease
• 63 Diabetes in the tropics
• 64 Cancer in the tropics
• 65 Hematological diseases in the tropics
• 66 Renal disease in the tropics
• 67 Ophthalmology in the tropics and subtropics
• 68 Dermatological problems
• 69 Musculoskeletal disorders
• 70 Respiratory problems in the tropics
• 71 Tropical Neurology
• 72 Psychiatry
• 73 Tropical Oral Health

Section 13: Environmental Disorders

• 74 Environmental Stress
• 75 Venomous and poisonous animals
• 76 Plant poisons and traditional medicines

Section 14: Nutrition

• 77 Nutrition-associated Disease
• 78 Obesity in the tropics

Section 15: Maternal/child health

• 79 Obstetrics in the tropics
• 80 Pediatrics in the tropics

Appendices -

A1 Clinical laboratory diagnosis
A2 Parasitic Protozoa
A3 Medical helminthology
A4 Medical acarology and entomology
A5 Sources of Information in Tropical Medicine

Author Information

By Jeremy Farrar, FRCP, FMedAcSci, DPhil, OBE, Professor of Tropical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Director, Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Wellcome Trust Major Overseas Programme, South East Asia Infectious Disease Clinical Research Network, Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam ; Peter Hotez, MD, PhD, Dean, National School of Tropical Medicine, Professor, Pediatrics and Molecular & Virology and Microbiology, Head, Section of Pediatric Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine; Texas Children’s Hospital Endowed Chair of Tropical Pediatrics, Director, Sabin Vaccine Institute and Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, President, Sabin Vaccine Institute, Houston, Texas, USA ; Thomas Junghanss, MD (Internal Medicine, subspecialties Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases), MSc, PHDC (Lon) , apl Professor and Head, Section Clinical Tropical Medicine, Department of Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany ; Gagandeep Kang, MD, PhD, FRCPath, Professor, Gastrointestinal Sciences, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India ; David Lalloo, MB, BS, MD, FRCP, FFTM, RCPS(Glasg), Professor of Tropical Medicine, Dean of Clinical Sciences and International Public Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK and Nicholas J. White, OBE, MD, DSc, FRCP, F Med Sci, FRS , Professor of Tropical Medicine, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand; Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK