An Overview of Tropical Diseases
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An Overview of Tropical Diseases

  1. 212 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

An Overview of Tropical Diseases

About this book

Tropical diseases affect millions of people throughout the world and particularly in the developing countries. The millennium development goals had specifically targeted HIV/AIDS and Malaria for substantial reduction as well as Tuberculosis while many other tropical diseases have been neglected. The new sustainable development goals have not made such distinction and have targeted all diseases for elimination for the improvement of the quality of life of human beings on earth. The present book was developed to provide an update on issues relevant to the treatment of selected tropical diseases such as tuberculosis, malaria, leishmaniasis, schistosomiasis and ectoparasites such as chiggers which are widely distributed throughout the world. The control of these infections has been hampered by the development of drug resistance and the lack of the development of new and more effective drugs. The understanding of the biochemical processes underlying drug activity is therefore essential for the potential elimination of these infections.

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Information

Publisher
IntechOpen
Year
2015
Print ISBN
9789535122241
eBook ISBN
9789535172703
Topic
Medicine
Subtopic
Infectious Diseases

Table of contents

  1. An Overview of Tropical Diseases
  2. Contents
  3. Preface
  4. Chapter 1 Emerging Public Health Issues in Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis
  5. Chapter 2 Mitochondria of Malaria Parasites as a Drug Target
  6. Chapter 3 Recent Advances in Antimalarial Drug Discovery — Challenges and Opportunities
  7. Chapter 4 Advances on Dientamoeba fragilis Infections
  8. Chapter 5 Speciation in the Leishmania guyanensis Vector Lutzomyia umbratilis (Diptera: Psychodidae) from Northern Brazil — Implications for Epidemiology and Vector Control
  9. Chapter 6 Dirofilariosis and Leishmaniasis in the Northern Region of Serbia
  10. Chapter 7 Schistosomiasis – Updating Technologies and Diagnostic Approaches in Surveillance Strategies and Clinical Management
  11. Chapter 8 Praziquantel and Arachidonic Acid Combination — An Innovative Approach to the Treatment of Schistosomiasis
  12. Chapter 9 The Role of Chiggers as Human Pathogens