Hunter's tropical medicine and emerging infectious diseases.

Includes bibliographical references.

Part 1: Clinical practice in the tropics. Section A: Organ-based chapters. Tropical lung diseases -- Cardiovascular diseases -- Gastrointestinal diseases -- Hepatobiliary diseases -- Hematologic diseases -- Genitourinary diseases -- Sexually transmitted infections -- Tropical dermatology -- Ophthalmological diseases -- Neurologic diseases -- Psychiatric diseases -- ENT -- Diseases of the musculoskeletal system -- Section B: Skills-based chapters. General surgery in the tropics -- Oral health and disease in the tropics -- Maternal and newborn health -- Pediatrics in a resource-constrained setting -- Section C: Service-based chapters. Diagnostic imaging in the tropics -- Blood transfusion in resource-limited settings -- Infection control in the tropics -- Microbiology -- Section D: Topic-based chapters. Approach to the patient with diarrhea -- Cancer in the tropics -- Heat-associated illness -- Traditional medicine -- Environmental health hazards in the tropics --

Neglected tropical diseases: public health control programs and mass drug administration -- Health systems and health care delivery -- The health care response to disasters, complex emergencies, and population displacement -- Part 2: Viral diseases. Introduction and general principles -- Human immunodeficiency virus infection -- HIV, tuberculosis, malaria and Streptococcus pneumoniae -- Viral infections with cutaneous lesions -- Measles -- Poxviruses -- Nonpolio enterovirus mucocutaneous infections -- Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus -- Viral respiratory infections -- Viral gastroenteritis -- Rotavirus -- Norovirus -- Enteric adenoviruses -- Astroviruses -- Sapovirus -- Viral hepatitis (Hep A, B, C, D, E and non A to E) -- Viral febrile illnesses and emerging pathogens -- Dengue and Dengue hemorrhagic fever -- Chikungunya fever -- Zika -- O'nyong Nyong fever -- Ross River virus disease -- Oropouche virus -- Mayaro virus -- Pathogenic phleboviruses (old: sandfly fever) --

Sindbis fever -- Viral hemorrhagic fevers: introduction -- Yellow fever -- Lassa fever -- South American hemorrhagic fevers -- Ebola and Marburg virus infections -- Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever -- Diseases caused by hantaviruses -- Rift Valley fever -- Viral CNS infections -- Rabies & related viruses -- Enterovirus infections that cause central nervous system disease (including poliomyelitis) -- Venezuelan, Eastern and Western equine encephalitis -- Japanese encephalitis -- West Nile virus -- Saint Louis encephalitis and Rocio encephalitis -- Other arboviral encephalitides -- Prion disease -- Human T-lymphotropic virus type I and II infection --

Part 3: Bacterial infections. Section A: Infections of the eye and throat. Trachoma and inclusion conjunctivitis -- Group A Streptococcus -- Diphtheria -- Section B: Respiratory tract infections -- Bacterial pneumonia -- Tuberculosis -- Pertussis -- Section C: Gastrointestinal tract infections -- Helicobacter pylori infection -- Escherichia coli diarrhea -- Cholera and other vibrios -- Shigellosis -- Nontyphoid Salmonella disease -- Campylobacter infections -- Miscellaneous bacterial enteritides -- Yersinia enterocolitica -- Clostridium infections -- Aeromonas -- Section D: Sexually transmitted diseases. Chlamydial infections -- Lymphogranuloma venereum -- Gonorrhea -- Chancroid -- Granuloma inguinale -- Syphilis and the endemic treponematoses -- Section E: Infections causing neurologic manifestations. Acute bacterial meningitis -- Tetanus -- Botulism -- Section F: Infections of skin and soft tissues. Bacterial skin and soft tissue infections in the tropics -- Leprosy --

Buruli ulcer -- Mycobacterium marinum infection -- Anthrax -- Section G: Febrile systemic syndromes with or without lymphadenopathy. Epidemic louse-borne typhus -- Murine typhus -- Scrub typhus -- Tick-borne spotted fever rickettsioses -- Rickettsialpox -- Q fever -- Trench fever -- Bartonellosis : Carrion's disease and other bartonella infections -- Typhoid and paratyphoid (enteric) fever -- Brucellosis -- Melioidosis and glanders -- Plague -- Tularemia -- Leptospirosis -- Relapsing fever and borrelioses -- Part 4: The mycoses. General principles -- Superficial mycoses -- Subcutaneous mycoses : general principles -- Protothecosis -- Histoplasmosis -- Coccidioidomycosis -- Blastomycosis -- Paracoccidioidomycosis -- Cryptococcosis -- Penicilliosis marneffei -- Pneumocystis pneumonia -- Treatment of systemic mycoses -- Part 5: Protozoal infections. General principles -- Section A: Intestinal and genital infections -- Entamoeba histolytica (amebiasis) -- Giardiasis --

Cryptosporidiosis -- Cyclosporiasis -- Cystoisospora belli (syn. Isospora belli ) -- Miscellaneous intestinal protozoa -- Trichomoniasis -- Section B: Infections of the blood and reticuloendothelial system. Malaria -- African trypanosomiasis -- American trypanosomiasis (Chagas disease) -- Leishmaniasis -- Babesiosis -- Section C: Tissue infection. Toxoplasmosis -- Pathogenic and opportunistic free-living ameba infections -- Sarcocystosis -- Microsporidiosis --

Part 6: Helminthic infections. General principles -- Section A: Intestinal nematode infections. Nematodes limited to the intestinal tract ( Enterobius vermicularis, Trichuris trichiura, Capillaria philippinensis and Trichostrongylus spp.) -- Intestinal nematodes: ascariasis -- Hookworm and strongyloides infections -- Section B: Filarial infections. Lymphatic filariasis -- Loiasis -- Onchocerciasis -- Miscellaneous filariae -- Section C: Other tissue nematode infections. Dracunculiasis -- Trichinellosis -- Toxocariasis -- Gnathostomiasis -- Eosinophilic meningitis ( Angiostrongylus cantonensis, Parastrongylus cantonensis ) -- Abdominal angiostrongyliasis -- Cutaneous larva migrans -- Anisakidosis -- Section D: Trematodes infections. Schistosomiasis -- Intestinal fluke infections -- Liver fluke infections -- Paragonimiasis -- Section E: Cestode infections. Tapeworm Infections -- Larval cestode infections (cysticercosis) -- Cystic echinococcosis --

Alveolar echinococcosis (alveolar hydatid disease) -- Polycystic echinococcosis (polycystic neotropical disease) -- Sparganosis -- Coenuriasis -- Part 7: Poisonous and toxic plants and animals. Animals hazardous to humans: venomous bites, stings and envenoming -- Injurious arthropods -- Poisonous plants and aquatic animals -- Pentastomiasis -- Bats -- Part 8: Nutritional problems and deficiency diseases. General principles -- Protein-energy malnutrition in children -- Vitamin deficiencies -- Mineral deficiencies -- Part 9: Vector transmission of diseases and zoonoses. Section A: Medical entomology. Introduction medical entomology -- Section B: Diseases associated with vectors (arthropods in disease transmission). Diseases associated with vectors (arthropods in disease transmission) -- Section C: Vector control. Vector control -- Part 10: The sick returning traveler. General principles -- Fever in the returned traveler -- Malaria in the returned traveler --

Screening of the asymptomatic long-term traveler -- Persistent diarrhea in the returned traveler -- Skin lesions in returning travelers -- Eosinophilia in migrants and returned travelers: a practical approach -- Immigrant medicine -- International adoption -- Medical tourism -- Transplant patients and tropical diseases -- Delusional parasitosis -- Part 11: Laboratory diagnosis of parasitic diseases. General principles -- Preparation of samples for morphologic diagnosis of parasites in stool and urine specimens -- Examination of blood, other body fluids, tissues, and sputum -- Part 12: Drugs used in tropical medicine. Albendazole -- Artemisinin -- Benznidazole -- Dapsone -- DEC -- Eflornithine -- Ivermectin -- Miltefosine -- Nifurtimox -- Nitazoxanide -- Pentamidine -- Pentavalent antimony -- Praziquantel.

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