Gill / Beeching Lecture Notes

Tropical Medicine
6. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-118-30755-7
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
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Lecture Notes: Tropical Medicine is a comprehensiveintroduction to tropical medicine. The new edition is in fullcolour throughout with over 40 colour images integrated with thetext. There is a new chapter on syndromes of undernutrition (inboth children and adults), and the section on non-communicablediseases has been extended to include mental health problems in thetropics.
The core information is presented in a clear and concise way,with extensive use of diagrams, algorithms, tables and boxes. Allchapters have been updated to reflect current best practice and theannotated bibliographies and lists of web-based resources have beenextended. The chapters on HIV, tuberculosis and malaria haveundergone particularly extensive revision, reflecting rapid changesin these areas since the last edition.
Lecture Notes: Tropical Medicine is particularlyaimed at postgraduate doctors attending tropical medicine courses,as well as medical students taking a tropical medicine electiveperiod. It will also be useful to a wide range of other healthprofessionals involved with medicine in the tropics, or importedtropical disease.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gill, G. V.

Beeching, Nick

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contributors.
Preface.
List of Abbreviations.
New Drug Names.
Part 1: A General Approach to Syndromes/SymptomComplexes.
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) includingcysticercosis.
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.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Geoffrey Gill is Senior Clinical Lecturer at the LiverpoolSchool of Tropical Medicine.
Nick J Beeching is Senior Lecturer in Infectious diseasesat the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. Both edited the fifthedition of this book.