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Essentials of Tropical Infections: Principles, Pathogens and Practice for the Clinician

Author: Richard L. Guerrant
Published: February 2001
Publisher: Churchill Livingstone, Inc.
ISBN: 0443079099
Hardcover Book
Number of Pages: 664
 
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Table of Contents:


1 Fever and Systemic Symptoms 1
2 Gastrointestinal Symptoms 11
3 Eosinophilia 16
4 Cutaneous Lesions 31
5 Hepatobiliary Disease 66
6 Pulmonary Disease 74
7 Ocular Disease 78
8 Neurologic Disease 88
9 Anemia 93
10 Urologic Symptoms 98
11 Sexually Transmitted Diseases 101
12 The Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Coinfecting Tropical Infectious Diseases 110
13 Health Advice for International Travel 128
14 Enteric E. coli Infections: Introduction to Enteric Bacterial Infections 141
15 Typhoid Fever 146
16 Nontyphoidal Salmonellosis 151
17 Shigellosis 156
18 Campylobacter Infections 160
19 Cholera 163
20 "Non-Cholera" Vibrio Infections 167
21 Enteric Clostridium Infections 169
22 Helicobacter pylori Infections 172
23 Meningococcal Infections 176
24 Gonococcal and Other Neisserial Infections 182
25 Haemophilus Infections 187
26 Calymmatobacterium granulomatis Infection (Donovanosis) 190
27 Pneumococcal Infections 192
28 Streptococcal and Staphylococcal Infections 195
29 Pertussis 200
30 Legionellosis 201
31 Melioidosis 203
32 Diphtheua 207
33 Tuberculosis and Atypical Mycobacterial Infections 211
34 Leprosy 221
35 Anthrax 227
36 Bartonelloses 230
37 Brucellosis 233
38 Plague 236
39 Tetanus 241
40 Treponemal Infections 246
41 Relapsing Fever and Other Borrelia Infections 250
42 Leptospirosis 256
43 Trachoma 260
44 Chlamydia trachomatis Infections of the Genital Tract (Oculogenital Infections and Lymphogranuloma Venereum) 264
45 Psittacosis 269
46 Spotted Fever Group Rickettsioses 271
47 Typhus Group Rickettsioses 274
48 Scrub Typhus 278
49 Ehrlichioses 281
50 Q Fever 283
51 Dermatophytosis 285
52 Mycetoma 288
53 Chromoblastomycosis and Phaeohyphomycosis 291
54 Histoplasmosis, Blastomycosis, Coccidioidomycosis, and Cryptococcosis 294
55 Paracoccidioidomycosis 300
56 Penicilliosis marneffei 302
57 Candida Infections 304
58 Entomophthoramycosis, Lobomycosis, Rhinosporidiosis, and Sporotrichosis 311
59 Pneumocystosis 314
60 Enteric Amebiasis 321
61 Intestinal Flagellate and Ciliate Infections 328
62 Intestinal Coccidial Infections 335
63 Malaria 341
64 Babesiosis 355
65 African Trypanosomiasis (Sleeping Sickness) 360
66 American Trypanosomiasis (Chagas' Disease) 365
67 Leishmaniasis 372
68 Free-Living Amebae: Naegleria, Acanthamoeba, and Balamuthia Infections 379
69 Nonintestinal Flagellates 385
70 Systemic Coccidia (Toxoplasmosis) 386
71 Microsporidiosis 393
72 Filariasis 398
73 Loiasis and Mansonella Infections 404
74 Onchocerciasis 411
75 Zoonotic Filariasis 418
76 Dracunculiasis 426
77 Toxocariasis and Larva Migrans Syndromes 428
78 Trichinellosis 433
79 Angiostrongyliasis 438
80 Other Tissue Nematode Infections 443
81 Enterobiasis 449
82 Trichuriasis 452
83 Ascariasis 455
84 Hookworm Infections 458
85 Strongyloidiasis 464
86 Overview of Cestode Infections 469
87 Taeniasis 470
88 Cysticercosis 472
89 Diphyllobothriasis 476
90 Echinococcosis 478
91 Other Cestode Infections 490
92 Schistosomiasis 492
93 Liver, Lung, and Intestinal Fluke Infections 497
94 Measles 509
95 Human Herpesvirus Infections 512
96 Smallpox and Monkeypox 519
97 Influenza Virus, Respiratory Syncytial Virus, Parainfluenza Viruses, Rhinovirus, and Respiratory Adenoviruses 525
98 Enterovirus Infections, Including Poliomyelitis 530
99 Rotavirus Infections 535
100 Calicivirus Infections 537
101 Astrovirus, Enteric Adenovirus, and Other Enteric Viral Infections 539
102 Hepatitis 541
103 Overview of Viral Hermorrhagic Fevers 552
104 Arenavirus Infections 559
105 Bunyaviral Fevers: Rift Valley Fever and Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever 564
106 Hantavirus Infections 567
107 Other Bunyavirus Infections 572
108 Filovirus Infections 574
109 Yellow Fever 576
110 Dengue and Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever 580
111 Other Flavivirus Infections 584
112 Alphavirus Infections 587
113 Rabies 590
114 AIDS and AIDS-Related Infections 596
115 Athropods, Tongue Worms, Leeches, and Arthropod-Borne Diseases 602
App. 1 Micronutrient Requirements 609
App. 2 Immunizations 612
App. 3 Chemotherapy of Tropical Infectious Diseases 613
Index 639


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