Tropical Medicine

Tropical Medicine

A Clinical Text, 8th Edition, Revised and Expanded

  • Author: Cahill, Kevin M.
  • Publisher: Fordham University Press
  • Serie: International Humanitarian Affairs
  • ISBN: 9780823240609
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780823260706
  • eISBN Epub: 9780823260690
  • Place of publication:  New York , United States
  • Year of publication: 2013
  • Year of digital publication: 2013
  • Month: September
  • Language: English

The history of tropical medicine is as dramatic as the story of humankind. It has its own myths and legends, including tales of epidemics that destroyed whole civilizations. Today, with silent stealth, tropical diseases still claim more lives than all the current wars combined. Having had the privilege of working throughout Africa, Asia, and Latin America, as well as in the great medical centers of Europe and the United States, the author presents the details essential for understanding pathogenesis, clinical manifestations, therapy, and prevention of the major tropical diseases. The text, now in its eighth edition, has been used for half a century
by medical students, practicing physicians, and public health workers around the world. This fascinating
book should also be of interest to a broad, nonmedical readership interested in world affairs.

All royalties from the sale of this book go to the training of humanitarian workers.

  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Malaria
    • Hyperactive Malarial Splenomegaly
    • Babesiosis
  • The Trypanosomatidae
    • African Trypanosomiasis
    • American Trypanosomiasis
    • Visceral Leishmaniasis
    • Cutaneous and Mucocutaneous Leishmaniasis
  • Amebiasis
    • Amebic Dysentery
    • Amebic Liver Abscess
  • Bacterial and Rickettsial Diseases
    • Typhoid Fever
    • Brucellosis
    • Q Fever
    • Tick Typhus
    • Scrub Typhus
    • Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever
    • Plague
    • Anthrax
    • Leptospirosis
    • Melioidosis
    • Bartonellosis
  • Tuberculosis
  • Rabies
  • Leprosy
  • Treponemal and Fungal Infections
    • Yaws
    • Pinta
    • Cutaneous fungal infection
    • Subcutaneous fungal infection
    • Deep Fungal Infections
  • Diarrheal Diseases
    • Cholera
    • Shigellosis
    • Diarrhea in Children
    • Pig Bel
    • Traveler’s Diarrhea
    • Giardiasis
    • Tropical Enteropathy
    • Tropical Sprue
    • Miscellaneous Malabsorptive Syndromes
  • Viral Infections of the Tropics
    • Yellow Fever
    • Dengue Fever
    • Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever
    • Lassa Fever
    • Argentine; Hantan; Ebola and Marburg
    • Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever
    • Japanese B Encephalitis
    • Viral Hepatitis in the Tropics
    • HIV and Other Retroviral Infections
  • Intestinal Nematode Infections
    • Ascariasis
    • Trichuriasis
    • Hookworm Disease
    • Strongyloidiasis
    • Prevention of Geohelminth Infections
    • Other Intestinal Nematodes
  • Intestinal Cestode Infections
    • Taenia saginata
    • Taenia solium; Hymenolepis nana
    • Diphyllobothrium latum
  • Intestinal Trematode Infections
    • Fasciolopsis buski
    • Metagonimus yokogawi and Heterophyes heterophyes
  • Larval Helminth Infections
    • Trichinosis
    • Cysticercosis
    • Hydatidosis
    • Coenurus
    • Cutaneous larva migrans; Visceral larva migrans
    • Gnathostomiasis
    • Angiostrongyliases; Sparganosis
  • Filariasis
    • Wuchereria bancrofti infection
    • Brugia malayi infection
    • Loaiasis
    • Onchocerciasis
    • Other Filarial Infections of Humans
    • Dracontiasis
  • Schistosomiasis
    • Schistosoma haematobium
    • Schistosoma mansoni
    • Schistosoma japonicum
    • Other Schistosomal Infections
    • The Prevention and Control of Schistosomiasis
    • Other Trematode Infections
    • Fascioliasis
    • Clonorchiasis
    • Opisthorchiasis
    • Paragonimiasis
  • Malnutrition
    • Marasmus
    • Kwashiorkor
  • Hereditary Anemias
    • The Thalassemias
    • Beta Thalassemia
    • Alpha Thalassemia
    • Hemoglobinopathies
    • Other Causes of Sickle Cell Disease
    • G6PD Deficiency
    • Familial Mediterranean Fever
  • Miscellaneous
    • Tropical Tumors
    • Snake Bite
    • Eye Diseases
    • Heart Diseases
    • Effects of Heat
    • Bioterrorism
  • Advising Tropical Travelers
  • Epilogue: The Evolution of a Tropicalist
  • References
  • About the CIHC
  • About the Author
  • Index
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