Tropical Medicine

by Beeching, Nick; Gill, Geoff

• ISBN13: 9780470658536
• ISBN10: 0470658533
• Edition: 7th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2014-06-23
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Providing a comprehensive introduction to the study of tropical medicine, this new edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to include new content and more illustrations and clinical photographs to aid understanding. Now fully supported by a companion website containing hundreds of interactive multiple-choice questions, and available in a range of digital formats, Tropical Medicine Lecture Notes is the perfect resource for study and revision, and is the ideal companion for those practising medicine in tropical and sub-tropical regions.

• New edition of the best-selling tropical medicine textbook
• Brand new chapters covering Ophthalmology and Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs)
• Increased coverage of malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS
• More colour illustrations and photographs for greater clarity and understanding
• Fully supported by a companion website at www.lecturenoteseries.com/tropicalmed containing figures and summaries from the book in PowerPoint format, and hundreds of interactive MCQs (written by Dom Colbert)
• Now available in a range of digital formats - perfect for on-the-go study and clinical practice

Author Biography

Nick Beeching is Senior Lecturer in Infectious Diseases at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

Geoff Gill is Emeritus Professor of International Medicine, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

Table of Contents

Contributors

Preface

List of Abbreviations

New Drug Names

Part 1: A General Approach to Syndromes/Symptom Complexes

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) including cysticercosis

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

62 Eye disease in the Tropics

63 Neglected tropical diseases

Index