Description
Book SynopsisThis new edition, providing a comprehensive introduction to the study of tropical medicine, has been thoroughly revised and updated to include new content, further illustrations and clinical photographs to aid understanding.
Trade Review“This is a comprehensive review of many tropical diseases, appropriately updated from the previous edition, that accomplishes its educational purpose by presenting material in a way that makes learning uncomplicated and enhancing it with online materials and multiple-choice questions.” (Doody’s, 9 January 2015)
Table of ContentsContributors vii
Preface ix
List of Abbreviations x
New Drug Names xiii
How to use your textbook xiv
About the companion website xvii
Part 1 A general approach to syndromes/symptom complexes 1
1 Gastrointestinal presentations 3
2 Respiratory presentations 11
3 Neurological presentations 16
4 Febrile presentations 24
5 Dermatological presentations 29
6 The patient with anaemia 33
7 A syndromic approach to sexually transmitted infections 38
8 Splenomegaly in the tropics 47
Part 2 Major tropical infections 51
9 Malaria 53
10 Visceral leishmaniasis 70
11 Cutaneous leishmaniasis 77
12 Tuberculosis 82
13 HIV infection and disease in the tropics 96
14 Onchocerciasis filariasis and loiasis 126
15 African trypanosomiasis 141
16 South American trypanosomiasis (Chagas’ disease) 148
17 Schistosomiasis 151
18 Leprosy 163
Part 3 Other tropical diseases 175
19 Amoebiasis 177
20 Bacillary dysentery 183
21 Cholera 186
22 Giardiasis and other intestinal protozoal infections 190
23 Intestinal cestode infections (tapeworms) including cysticercosis 195
24 Soil-transmitted helminths 199
25 Viral hepatitis 205
26 Liver and intestinal flukes 214
27 Hydatid disease 218
28 Pneumonia 222
29 Lung flukes 229
30 Tropical pulmonary eosinophilia 231
31 Pyogenic meningitis 233
32 Cryptococcal meningitis 241
33 Encephalitis 243
34 Acute flaccid paralysis 248
35 Spastic paralysis 251
36 Rabies 254
37 Tetanus 259
38 Brucellosis 262
39 Typhoid and paratyphoid fevers 267
40 Arboviruses 273
41 Viral haemorrhagic fevers 276
42 Dengue and yellow fever 283
43 Relapsing fevers 289
44 Rickettsial infections 292
45 Leptospirosis 294
46 Melioidosis 297
47 Tropical ulcer 299
48 Buruli ulcer 301
49 Myiasis 305
50 Cutaneous larva migrans 307
51 Scabies and lice 309
52 Strongyloidiasis 311
53 Guinea worm infection (dracunculiasis) 315
54 Histoplasmosis 317
55 Other fungal infections 319
56 Haemoglobinopathies and red cell enzymopathies 321
57 Haematinic deficiencies 326
58 Bites and stings 330
59 Non-communicable diseases 334
60 Refugee health 351
61 Syndromes of malnutrition 358
62 Eye disease in the tropics 364
63 Neglected tropical diseases 372
Index 381
