Manson's Tropical Diseases

Herausgeber: Lalloo, David; Junghanss, Thomas Section Clinical Tropical Medicine University Hospital Heidelberg Heidelberg; Hotez, Peter J; Garcia, Patricia J.; White, Nicholas J.; Farrar, Jeremy; Kang, Gagandeep

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Produktbeschreibung

**Selected for Doody's Core Titles® 2024 in Infectious Disease**For 125 years, physicians have relied on Manson's Tropical Diseases for a comprehensive clinical overview of this complex and fast-changing field. In the fully revised 24th Edition, Dr. Jeremy Farrar, along with an internationally recognized editorial team, global contributors, and expert authors, deliver the latest coverage on parasitic and infectious diseases from around the world. From the difficult to diagnose to the difficult to treat, this highly readable, award-winning reference prepares you to effectively handle whatever your patients may have contracted. Covers all of tropical medicine in a comprehensive manner, general medicine in the tropics, and non-clinical issues regarding public health and ethics. Serves as an indispensable resource for physicians who treat patients with tropical diseases and/or will be travelling to the tropics, or who are teaching others in this area. Contains a new section on 21st Century Drivers of Tropical Medicine, with chapters covering Poverty and Inequality, Public Health in Settings of Conflict and Political Instability, Climate Change, and Medical Product Quality and Public Health. Includes all-new chapters on Surgery in the Topics, Yellow Fever, Systemic Mycoses, and COVID-19. Covers key topics such as drug resistance; emerging and reemerging infections such as Zika, Ebola, and Chikungunya; novel diagnostics such as PCR-based methods; point-of care-tests such as ultrasound; public health in settings of conflict and political instability; and much more. Differentiates approaches for resource-rich and resource-poor areas. Includes reader-friendly features such as highlighted key information, convenient boxes and tables, extensive cross-referencing, and clinical management diagrams. An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Elsevier Health Sciences
• 24 ed
• Seitenzahl: 1384
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 283mm x 225mm x 53mm
• Gewicht: 3938g
• ISBN-13: 9780702079597
• ISBN-10: 0702079596
• Artikelnr.: 68319114

Autorenporträt

Jeremy Farrar, FRCP, FMedAcSci, DPhil, OBE Wellcome Trust (From 5 May 2023 Chief Scientist World Health Organization)

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the First Edition Preface to the Twenty-Fourth Edition
Contributors 1 History of Tropical Medicine, and Medicine in the Tropics
SECTION I 21st Century Drivers of Tropical Medicine 2 Global Health 3
Poverty and Inequality 4 Public Health in Settings of Conflict and
Political Instability 5 Climate Change and Health in the Tropics: Current
Status and Future Trends 6 Medical Products Quality and Public Health 7 The
Economic Case for Devoting Public Resources to Health 8 Global Health
Governance and Tropical Diseases SECTION II Health Research and Ethics 9
Ethics and Tropical Diseases: Some Global Considerations SECTION III
Epidemiology 10 Issues and Challenges of Public Health Research in
Developing Countries SECTION IV Clinical Assessment 11 Emergency and
Intensive Care Medicine in Resource-Poor Settings 12 Ultrasound 13 Surgery
in the Tropics SECTION V Viral Infections 14 HIV Epidemiology in the
Tropics 15 Clinical Features and Management of HIV/AIDS in Adults 16 HIV in
Children 17 HIV/AIDS Prevention 18 Viral Hepatitis 19 Yellow Fever 20
Arbovirus Infections 21 Dengue 22 Viral Haemorrhagic Fevers 23 Rabies 24
Rotavirus and Other Viral Diarrhoea 25 Respiratory Viruses and Atypical
Bacteria 26 Viral Exanthems 27 Virus Infections of the Nervous System 28
COVID-19 SECTION VI Bacterial Infections 29 Tropical Rickettsial Infections
30 Sexually Transmitted Infections (Excluding HIV) 31 Bacterial
Enteropathogens 32 Salmonella Infections 33 Pneumococcal Disease 34
Bacterial Meningitis 35 Brucellosis 36 Noma, Actinomycosis, and Nocardia 37
Bartonellosis, Cat-scratch Disease, Trench Fever, Human Ehrlichiosis 38
Anthrax 39 Tetanus 40 Plague 41 Melioidosis 42 Diphtheria 43 Spirochaetes
Diseases of the Tropics SECTION VII Fungal Infections 44 Superficial and
Subcutaneous Mycoses 45 Systemic Mycoses SECTION VIII Mycobacterial
Infections 46 Tuberculosis 47 Leprosy 48 Mycobacterium ulcerans Disease
(Buruli Ulcer) SECTION IX Protozoan Infections 49 Malaria 50 Babesiosis 51
Human African Trypanosomiasis 52 American Trypanosomiasis: Chagas Disease
53 Leishmaniasis 54 Toxoplasmosis 55 Intestinal Protozoa 56 Pathogenic and
Opportunistic Free-Living Amoebae: Agents of Human and Animal Disease
SECTION X Helminthic Infections 57 Schistosomiasis 58 Food-borne Trematodes
59 The Filariases 60 Soil-Transmitted Helminths (Geohelminths) 61 Cystic,
Alveolar and Neotropical Echinococcosis 62 Other Cestode Infections:
Intestinal Cestodes,Cysticercosis, Other Larval Cestode Infections SECTION
XI Ectoparasites 63 Scabies 64 Human Lice, Bed Bugs, Sand Fleas, Myiasis,
and Leeches SECTION XII Non-communicable Diseases in the Tropics 65
Non-Communicable Diseases: Equity, Action, and Targets 66 Cardiovascular
and Vascular Disease in the Tropics Including Ischaemic Heart Disease,
Stroke, and Hypertension 67 Diabetes in the Tropics 68 Cancer in the
Tropics 69 Haematological Diseases in the Tropics 70 Renal Disease in the
Tropics 71 Ophthalmology in the Tropics and Sub-tropics 72 Dermatological
Problems in the Tropics 73 Musculoskeletal Disorders 74 Respiratory
Problems in the Tropics 75 Tropical Neurology 76 Psychiatry 77 Oral Disease
in the Tropics SECTION XIII Environmental Disorders 78 Environmental Stress
79 Venomous and Poisonous Animals 80 Plant Poisons, Hallucinogens, and
Traditional Medicines SECTION XIV Nutrition 81 Nutrition-Associated Disease
82 Obesity in the Tropics SECTION XV Maternal/Child Health 83 Obstetrics in
the Tropics 84 Paediatrics in the Tropics Appendices Appendix 1: Clinical
Laboratory Diagnosis Appendix 2: Parasitic Protozoa Appendix 3: Medical
Helminthology Appendix 4: Medical Acarology and Entomology Appendix 5:
Sources of Information in Tropical Medicine Index