Preface to the First Edition
Preface to the Twenty-Fourth Edition
Contributors
1 History of Tropical Medicine, and Medicine in the Tropics
SECTION I 21st Century Drivers of Tropical Medicine
2 Global Health
3 Poverty and Inequality
4 Public Health in Settings of Conflict and Political Instability
5 Climate Change and Health in the Tropics: Current Status and Future Trends
6 Medical Products Quality and Public Health
7 The Economic Case for Devoting Public Resources to Health
8 Global Health Governance and Tropical Diseases
SECTION II Health Research and Ethics
9 Ethics and Tropical Diseases: Some Global Considerations
SECTION III Epidemiology
10 Issues and Challenges of Public Health Research in Developing Countries
SECTION IV Clinical Assessment
11 Emergency and Intensive Care Medicine in Resource-Poor Settings
12 Ultrasound
13 Surgery in the Tropics
SECTION V Viral Infections
14 HIV Epidemiology in the Tropics
15 Clinical Features and Management of HIV/AIDS
in Adults
16 HIV in Children
17 HIV/AIDS Prevention
18 Viral Hepatitis
19 Yellow Fever
20 Arbovirus Infections
21 Dengue
22 Viral Haemorrhagic Fevers
23 Rabies
24 Rotavirus and Other Viral Diarrhoea
25 Respiratory Viruses and Atypical Bacteria
26 Viral Exanthems
27 Virus Infections of the Nervous System
28 COVID-19
SECTION VI Bacterial Infections
29 Tropical Rickettsial Infections
30 Sexually Transmitted Infections (Excluding HIV)
31 Bacterial Enteropathogens
32 Salmonella Infections
33 Pneumococcal Disease
34 Bacterial Meningitis
35 Brucellosis
36 Noma, Actinomycosis, and Nocardia
37 Bartonellosis, Cat-scratch Disease, Trench Fever, Human Ehrlichiosis
38 Anthrax
39 Tetanus
40 Plague
41 Melioidosis
42 Diphtheria
43 Spirochaetes Diseases of the Tropics
SECTION VII Fungal Infections
44 Superficial and Subcutaneous Mycoses
45 Systemic Mycoses
SECTION VIII Mycobacterial Infections
46 Tuberculosis
47 Leprosy
48 Mycobacterium ulcerans Disease (Buruli Ulcer)
SECTION IX Protozoan Infections
49 Malaria
50 Babesiosis
51 Human African Trypanosomiasis
52 American Trypanosomiasis: Chagas Disease
53 Leishmaniasis
54 Toxoplasmosis
55 Intestinal Protozoa
56 Pathogenic and Opportunistic Free-Living Amoebae: Agents of Human and Animal Disease
SECTION X Helminthic Infections
57 Schistosomiasis
58 Food-borne Trematodes
59 The Filariases
60 Soil-Transmitted Helminths (Geohelminths)
61 Cystic, Alveolar and Neotropical Echinococcosis
62 Other Cestode Infections: Intestinal Cestodes,Cysticercosis, Other Larval Cestode Infections
SECTION XI Ectoparasites
63 Scabies
64 Human Lice, Bed Bugs, Sand Fleas, Myiasis, and Leeches
SECTION XII Non-communicable Diseases in the Tropics
65 Non-Communicable Diseases: Equity, Action, and Targets
66 Cardiovascular and Vascular Disease in the Tropics Including Ischaemic Heart Disease, Stroke, and Hypertension
67 Diabetes in the Tropics
68 Cancer in the Tropics
69 Haematological Diseases in the Tropics
70 Renal Disease in the Tropics
71 Ophthalmology in the Tropics and Sub-tropics
72 Dermatological Problems in the Tropics
73 Musculoskeletal Disorders
74 Respiratory Problems in the Tropics
75 Tropical Neurology
76 Psychiatry
77 Oral Disease in the Tropics
SECTION XIII Environmental Disorders
78 Environmental Stress
79 Venomous and Poisonous Animals
80 Plant Poisons, Hallucinogens, and Traditional Medicines
SECTION XIV Nutrition
81 Nutrition-Associated Disease
82 Obesity in the Tropics
SECTION XV Maternal/Child Health
83 Obstetrics in the Tropics
84 Paediatrics in the Tropics
Appendices
Appendix 1: Clinical Laboratory Diagnosis
Appendix 2: Parasitic Protozoa
Appendix 3: Medical Helminthology
Appendix 4: Medical Acarology and Entomology
Appendix 5: Sources of Information in Tropical Medicine
Index