Hunter's Tropical Medicine and Emerging Infectious Diseases E-Book
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Hunter's Tropical Medicine and Emerging Infectious Diseases E-Book

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eBook - ePub

Hunter's Tropical Medicine and Emerging Infectious Diseases E-Book

About this book

New emerging diseases, new diagnostic modalities for resource-poor settings, new vaccine schedules … all significant, recent developments in the fast-changing field of tropical medicine. Hunter's Tropical Medicine and Emerging Infectious Diseases, 10th Edition, keeps you up to date with everything from infectious diseases and environmental issues through poisoning and toxicology, animal injuries, and nutritional and micronutrient deficiencies that result from traveling to tropical or subtropical regions. This comprehensive resource provides authoritative clinical guidance, useful statistics, and chapters covering organs, skills, and services, as well as traditional pathogen-based content. You'll get a full understanding of how to recognize and treat these unique health issues, no matter how widespread or difficult to control.- Includes important updates on malaria, leishmaniasis, tuberculosis and HIV, as well as coverage of Ebola, Zika virus, Chikungunya, and other emerging pathogens.- Provides new vaccine schedules and information on implementation.- Features five all-new chapters: Neglected Tropical Diseases: Public Health Control Programs and Mass Drug Administration; Health System and Health Care Delivery; Zika; Medical Entomology; and Vector Control – as well as 250 new images throughout.- Presents the common characteristics and methods of transmission for each tropical disease, as well as the applicable diagnosis, treatment, control, and disease prevention techniques.- Contains skills-based chapters such as dentistry, neonatal pediatrics and ICMI, and surgery in the tropics, and service-based chapters such as transfusion in resource-poor settings, microbiology, and imaging.- Discusses maladies such as delusional parasitosis that are often seen in returning travelers, including those making international adoptions, transplant patients, medical tourists, and more.- Enhanced eBook version included with purchase, which allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

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Yes, you can access Hunter's Tropical Medicine and Emerging Infectious Diseases E-Book by Edward T Ryan,David R Hill,Tom Solomon,Naomi Aronson,Timothy P Endy in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Medicine & Infectious Diseases. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Elsevier
Year
2019
eBook ISBN
9780323625500
Edition
10

Table of contents

  1. Cover image
  2. Title Page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Copyright
  5. Preface
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. List of Contributors
  8. Part 1 Clinical Practice in the Tropics
  9. Part 2 Viral Diseases
  10. Part 3 Bacterial Infections
  11. Part 4 The Mycoses
  12. Part 5 Protozoal Infections
  13. Part 6 Helminthic Infections
  14. Part 7 Poisonous and Toxic Plants and Animals
  15. Part 8 Nutritional Problems and Deficiency Diseases
  16. Part 9 Vector Transmission of Diseases and Zoonoses
  17. Part 10 The Sick Returning Traveler
  18. Part 11 Laboratory Diagnosis of Parasitic Diseases
  19. Part 12 Drugs Used in Tropical Medicine
  20. Index