Overview

The second edition of Tropical Infections Diseases: Principles, Pathogens & Practice (TIDPPP) achieves an unprecedented level of detail and depth in reviewing the scientific background to the current understanding of tropical infections, their pathogenesis, pathophysiology, treatment and prevention. TIDPPP is a scientific companion to tropical infectious diseases that sets new standards of completeness and scientific integrity. Hailed in JAMA as a superb scientific reference that should become a classic the second edition continues to present cutting-edge clinical management and inescapably comprehensible life cycle diagrams. The lucid text is easily navigable for access to clinically relevant information by strict adherence to a common sequence of presentation throughout the text. TIDPPP is of enormous use and benefit to the specialist and non-specialist alike.

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Author:   Richard L. Guerrant ,  David H. Walker ,  Peter F. Weller
Publisher:   Elsevier Health Sciences
Imprint:   Churchill Livingstone
Edition:   2nd Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 21.10cm , Height: 10.20cm , Length: 27.60cm
Weight:   5.897kg
ISBN:  

9780443066689

ISBN 10:   044306668
Pages:   1936
Publication Date:   15 November 2005
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Mixed media product
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

PRINCIPLES AND GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS 1. Principles of Parasitism: Host Parasite Interactions 2. Factors in Influencing Geographic Distribution and Incidence of Tropical Infectious Diseases 3. Epidemiology in Tropical Medicine 4. Population Dynamics of Infectious Diseases in the Tropics 5. Social and Cultural Factors in Tropical Medicine 6. Nutrition-Infection Interaction 7. Micronutrients in Infection 8. Host Genetics and Susceptibility to Infection 9. Disease Eradication and Control 10. Travelers' and Immigrants; Health 11. Military Populations 12. Vector Biology 13. Animal Poisons in the Tropics 14. Plant Toxins in the Tropics 15. HIV and AIDS in the Tropics 16. Immunology, Host Defense, Immunodeficiencies, and Vaccines 17. Tropical Infectious Diseases and Malignancy 18. Chemotherapy of Parasitic Diseases 19. Chemotherapy of Bacterial, Fungal, and Viral Diseases 20. Surveillance for Emerging Diseases 21. Distinguishing Bioterrorism from Endemic Tropical Infections PATHOGENS A. Bacterial and Mycobacterial Infections 22. Eneric Escherichia coli 23. Typhoid Fever 24. Nontyphoidal Salmonellosis 25. Shigellosis 26. Campylobacter Infections 27. Cholera 28. Noncholera Vibrio Infections 29. Enteric Clostridium Infections 30. Helicobacter pylori Infections 31. Meningococcal Infections 32. Genococcal and Other Neisserial Infections 33. Haemophilus Infections 34. Calymmatobacterium granulomatis Infections 35. Pneumococcal Infections 36. Streptococcal and Staphylococcal Infections 37. Pertussis 38. Legionellosis 39. Meliodosis 40. Diptheria 41. Tuberculosis and Atypical Mycobacterial Infections 42. Leprosy 43. Anthrax 44. Bartonelloses 45. Brucellosis 46. Plague 47. Tetanus B. Spirochetal Infections 48. Treponemal Infections 49. Relapsing Fever 50. Leptospirosis C. Chlamydial Infections 51. Trachoma 52. Chlamydia trachomatis Infections of the Genital Tract 53. Psittacosis D. Rickettsial and Ehrlichial Infections 54. Spotted Fever Group Rickettsioses 55. Typhus Group Rickettsioses 56. Scrub Typhus 57. Ehrlichioses 58. Q. Fever E. Fungal Infections 59. Dermatophytosis 60. Mycetoma 61. Chromoblastomycosis and Phaeohyphomycosis 62. Histoplasmosis, Blastomycosis, Coccidiodomycosis, Paracoccidiodomycosis 63. Penicilliosis marneffei 64. Candid Infections 65. Enomophthoramycosis, Lobomycosis, Rhinosporidiosis, and Sporotrichosis 66. Pneumocystosis F. Protozoan Infections 67. Enteric Amebiasis 68. Intestinal Flagellate and Ciliate Infections 69. Intestinal Coccidial Infections 70. Malaria 71. Babesiosis 72. African Trypanosomiasis 73. American Trypanosomiasis (Chagas' Diseases) 74. Leishmaniasis 75. Free-Living Amebae 76. Non-intestinal Flagellates 77. Systemic Coccidian 78. Microsporidiosis G. Nematode Infections 79. FilariasisLoiasis and Mansonella Infections 80. Onchocerciasis 81. Zoonotic Filariasis 82. Dracunculiasis 83. Toxocariasis and Larva Migrans Syndromes 84. Trichinellosis 85. Angiostrongyliasis 86. Other Tissue Nematode Infections 87. Enterobiasis 88. Trichuriasis 89. Ascariasis 90. Hookworm Infections 91. Strongloidiasis H. Cestode Infections 92. Overview of Cestode Infections 93. Taeniasis 94. Cysticercosis 95. Diphyllobothriasis 96. Echinococcosis 97. Other Cestode Infections I. Trematode Infections 98. Schistosomiasis 99. Liver, Lung, and Intestinal Fluke Infections J. Viral Infections 100. Measles 101. Human Herpesvirus 102. Smallpox and Monkeypox 103. Influenza Virus 104. Enterovirus Infections, Including Poliomyelitis 105. Rotavirus Infections 106. Calicivirus Infectins 107. Astrovirus 108. Hepatitis 109. Overview of Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers 110. Arenavirus Infections 111. Bunyaviral Fevers 112. Hantavirus Infections 113. Other Bunyavirus Infections 114. Filovirus Infections 115. Yellow Fever 116. Dengue and Dengue Humorrhagic Fever 117. Alphavirus Infectins 118. Rabies K. Retroviral Infections 119. AIDS and AIDS-Related Infections L. Ectoparasitic Infections 120. Arthropids, Tongue Worms, Leeches, and Arthropod-Borne Diseases PRACTICE APPROACH TO PATIENTS 121. Health Advise to International Travelers 122. Gastrointestinal Symptons 123. Fever and Systemic Symptoms 124. Eosinophilia 125. Cutaneous Lesions 126. Hepatobiliary Diseases 127. Pulmonary Diseases 128. Ocular Diseases 129. Neurologic Diseases 130. Anemia 131. Urologic Symptons 132. Sexually Transmitted Diseases 133. The Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Coinfecting Tropical Infectious Diseases 134. Travel-Related Health Concerns Associated with Extremes of the Environment

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REVIEWS OF THE CURRENT EDITION <br> The current edition of Tropical Infectious Diseases: Principles, Pathogens, and Practice is the second edition of this outstanding textbook, which was originally published in 1999 and has become one of the essential resources for this extensive area of medicine. <br>The editors have successfully achieved a consistently high quality throughout this multiple-author text, which has a list of contributors that reads like a who's who of the tropical medicine world. <br>Many of the chapters in this section make very good use of tables to convey comparative aspects of their subject matter, in the tradition of most succesful reference textbooks. <br>This book, with its excellent multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary style, will appeal to students at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels and to clinicians and/or researchers at any stage of their career, and it is certain to become a 'must have' on the bookshelf. - Stuart D Blacksell, u

REVIEWS OF THE CURRENT EDITION <br> The current edition of Tropical Infectious Diseases: Principles, Pathogens, and Practice is the second edition of this outstanding textbook, which was originally published in 1999 and has become one of the essential resources for this extensive area of medicine. <br>The editors have successfully achieved a consistently high quality throughout this multiple-author text, which has a list of contributors that reads like a who's who of the tropical medicine world. <br>Many of the chapters in this section make very good use of tables to convey comparative aspects of their subject matter, in the tradition of most succesful reference textbooks. <br>This book, with its excellent multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary style, will appeal to students at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels and to clinicians and/or researchers at any stage of their career, and it is certain to become a 'must have' on the bookshelf. - Stuart D Blacksell, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand on behalf of CID January 2007 <br> Tropical Infectious Diseases, now thankfully published in two volumes totalling nearly 1800 pages, is a superb collection of well-written, well-organised, and authoritative chapters that are as up to date as possible. Almost every chapter is outstanding and some are classics in their own right. There are new and refreshing contributions on social and cultural fators in tropical medicine; on migrant, immigrant, and refugee health; and on tropical infectious diseases in pregnancy. Many of the revised chapters are excellent, particularly those on malaria, respiratory infections, cholera, heaptitis and neurologic diseaseand those collected in the last of the volumes' three sections, Practice: Approach to the Patient in the Tropics. This section and the other two - Principles and General Considerations and Pathogens - are clear and easy to navigate, and the accompanying CD-ROM is invaluable when one is travelling. For a textbook of this size, with more than 200 contributors, there is remarkably little overlap between chapters. The authors represent a who's who of experts on modern tropical infectious diseases, and the editors must have used extraordinary powers of persuasion to get this eclectic group to keep a uniform format and meet deadlines. - New England Medical Journal November 2006 <br> This impressive and essential resource, now in a new edition, presents thorough coverage of the history, description, and treatment of tropical infectious diseases worldwide, including a wide range that affect non-tropical countries. - SciTech Book News, Bol. 30, No. 2, June 2006 <br>REVIEWS OF THE PREVIOUS EDITION: <br> Provides a sound scientific background for the subsequent consideration of each specific pathogen...<br>An outstanding contribution and should become a classic in its field. It is must reading for all physicians working in tropical infectious diseases, and should be on the shelves of all physicians in the field of infectious diseases. -JAMA <br> Urge my fellow practitioners to run, not walk, to purchase [this] remarkable new textbook...[The] list of contributors from the United States and 16 other countries reads like an international who's who in tropical medicine. -Clinical Infectious Disease

REVIEWS OF THE CURRENT EDITION The current edition of Tropical Infectious Diseases: Principles, Pathogens, and Practice is the second edition of this outstanding textbook, which was originally published in 1999 and has become one of the essential resources for this extensive area of medicine. The editors have successfully achieved a consistently high quality throughout this multiple-author text, which has a list of contributors that reads like a who's who of the tropical medicine world. Many of the chapters in this section make very good use of tables to convey comparative aspects of their subject matter, in the tradition of most succesful reference textbooks. This book, with its excellent multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary style, will appeal to students at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels and to clinicians and/or researchers at any stage of their career, and it is certain to become a 'must have' on the bookshelf. - Stuart D Blacksell, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand on behalf of CID January 2007 Tropical Infectious Diseases, now thankfully published in two volumes totalling nearly 1800 pages, is a superb collection of well-written, well-organised, and authoritative chapters that are as up to date as possible. Almost every chapter is outstanding and some are classics in their own right. There are new and refreshing contributions on social and cultural fators in tropical medicine; on migrant, immigrant, and refugee health; and on tropical infectious diseases in pregnancy. Many of the revised chapters are excellent, particularly those on malaria, respiratory infections, cholera, heaptitis and neurologic disease and those collected in the last of the volumes' three sections, Practice: Approach to the Patient in the Tropics. This section and the other two - Principles and General Considerations and Pathogens - are clear and easy to navigate, and the accompanying CD-ROM is invaluable when one is travelling. For a textbook of this size, with more than 200 contributors, there is remarkably little overlap between chapters. The authors represent a who's who of experts on modern tropical infectious diseases, and the editors must have used extraordinary powers of persuasion to get this eclectic group to keep a uniform format and meet deadlines. - New England Medical Journal November 2006 This impressive and essential resource, now in a new edition, presents thorough coverage of the history, description, and treatment of tropical infectious diseases worldwide, including a wide range that affect non-tropical countries. - SciTech Book News, Bol. 30, No. 2, June 2006 REVIEWS OF THE PREVIOUS EDITION: Provides a sound scientific background for the subsequent consideration of each specific pathogen...An outstanding contribution and should become a classic in its field. It is must reading for all physicians working in tropical infectious diseases, and should be on the shelves of all physicians in the field of infectious diseases. -JAMA Urge my fellow practitioners to run, not walk, to purchase [this] remarkable new textbook...[The] list of contributors from the United States and 16 other countries reads like an international who's who in tropical medicine. -Clinical Infectious Disease

REVIEWS OF THE CURRENT EDITION The current edition of Tropical Infectious Diseases: Principles, Pathogens, and Practice is the second edition of this outstanding textbook, which was originally published in 1999 and has become one of the essential resources for this extensive area of medicine. The editors have successfully achieved a consistently high quality throughout this multiple-author text, which has a list of contributors that reads like a who's who of the tropical medicine world. Many of the chapters in this section make very good use of tables to convey comparative aspects of their subject matter, in the tradition of most succesful reference textbooks. This book, with its excellent multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary style, will appeal to students at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels and to clinicians and/or researchers at any stage of their career, and it is certain to become a 'must have' on the bookshelf. - Stuart D Blacksell, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand on behalf of CID January 2007 Tropical Infectious Diseases, now thankfully published in two volumes totalling nearly 1800 pages, is a superb collection of well-written, well-organised, and authoritative chapters that are as up to date as possible. Almost every chapter is outstanding and some are classics in their own right. There are new and refreshing contributions on social and cultural fators in tropical medicine; on migrant, immigrant, and refugee health; and on tropical infectious diseases in pregnancy. Many of the revised chapters are excellent, particularly those on malaria, respiratory infections, cholera, heaptitis and neurologic disease and those collected in the last of the volumes' three sections, Practice: Approach to the Patient in the Tropics. This section and the other two - Principles and General Considerations and Pathogens - are clear and easy to navigate, and the accompanying CD-ROM is

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Richard L Guerrant MDThomas H Hunter Professor of International MedicineDirector, Center for Global Health, Division of Infectious Diseases and International HealthUniversity of Virginia School of MedicineCharlottesvilleVAUSA David H Walker MDCarmage and Martha Walls Distinguished University Chair in Tropical DiseasesDirector, WHO Collaborating Center for Tropical DiseasesProfessor and Chair, Department of PathologyUniversity of Texas Medical BranchGalvestonTXUSA Peter F. Weller is Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Co-Chief, Infectious Disease Division; Vice Chair of Research in the Department of Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.

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