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Preface | |
Health and Disease | |
People and their environment | |
Food and nutrition | |
Refugees and disasters | |
Managing a health service | |
Mother and Child Health | |
The pregnant patient | |
Neonatal care | |
The integrated management of childhood illness (IMCI) | |
Severe acute malnutrition in childhood | |
Diarrhoea | |
Pneumonia and acute lower respiratory tract infections in children | |
Measles | |
Pertussis | |
Infection: General Principles | |
The immune response to infection | |
Approach to the febrile patient | |
The control and prevention of infection | |
Major Common Infections | |
Malaria | |
HIV/AIDS | |
Tuberculosis | |
Pneumonia in adults | |
Meningitis | |
Sexually transmitted infections | |
Bacterial Infections | |
Typhoid, paratyphoid and non-typhoid salmonella infections | |
Streptococcus pyogenes and Staphylococcus aureus | |
Rickettsial infections | |
Brucellosis | |
Leptospirosis | |
Relapsing fever | |
Plague | |
Anthrax | |
Tetanus | |
Diphtheria | |
Leprosy | |
Cholera | |
Viral Infections | |
Viral haemorrhagic fevers: yellow fever, Lassa fever, Rift Valley fever, Ebola/Marburg fever and Crimean-Congo fever | |
Dengue | |
Rabies | |
Influenza | |
Poliomyelitis | |
Varicella (chicken pox), Herpes zoster and monkey pox | |
Rubella | |
Mumps | |
Protozoal Infections | |
Leishmaniasis | |
Human Africa trypanosomiasis | |
Amoebiasis | |
Intestinal protozoa | |
Helminth Infections | |
Intestinal helminths | |
Schistosomiasis | |
Lymphatic filariasis and Loa Loa | |
Onchocerciasis | |
Cysticercosis | |
Hydatid disease | |
Paragonimiasis | |
Trichinosis | |
Guinea worm | |
Fungal Infections | |
Fungal infections | |
Non-Communicable Diseases | |
Chronic and non-communicable disease in Africa | |
Chronic non-communicable disease in health care | |
Diabetes mellitus | |
Hypertension | |
Stroke | |
Epilepsy | |
Mental health | |
Asthma | |
The disabled patient | |
Diseases of Body Systems | |
The heart | |
The lung | |
Blood disorders | |
The gut | |
The liver | |
The kidney and body fluids | |
Bones and joints | |
Endocrinology | |
The nervous system | |
The skin | |
The eye | |
Cancer and Palliative Care | |
Cancers and lymphomas | |
Palliative care in Africa | |
Venoms and Poisons | |
Venomous and other dangerous animals | |
Poisoning | |
Index | |
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