Manson's Tropical Diseases E-Book: Expert Consult - Online and Print

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Elsevier Health Sciences, Oct 26, 2013 - Medical - 1530 pages

From the difficult to diagnose to the difficult to treat, Manson’s Tropical Diseases prepares you to effectively handle whatever your patients may have contracted. Featuring an internationally recognized editorial team, global contributors, and expert authors, this revised and updated medical reference book provides you with the latest coverage on parasitic and infectious diseases from around the world.

  • Consult this title on your favorite e-reader, conduct rapid searches, and adjust font sizes for optimal readability.
  • Incorporate the latest therapies into your practice, such as recently approved drugs and new treatment options.
  • Find what you need easily and apply it quickly with highlighted key information, convenient boxes and tables, extensive cross-referencing, and clinical management diagrams.
  • Make the most accurate Tropical Disease diagnoses through a completely redesigned and modernized format, which includes full-color images throughout plus a wealth of additional illustrations online at Expert Consult.
  • Apply the latest treatment strategies for HIV/AIDS, tropical neurology, malaria, and much more.
  • Put the latest international expertise to work for you and your patients with new chapters covering Global Health; Global Health Governance and Tropical Diseases; Non-communicable Diseases; Obesity in the Tropics; and Emergency and Intensive Care Medicine in Resource-poor Settings.
  • See which diseases are most prevalent in specific areas of the tropics through a new index of diseases by country, as well as online-only maps that provide additional detail.
  • Better understand the variations in treatment approaches across the globe.
 

Contents

10 Helminthic Infections
698
11 Ectoparasites
833
12 Noncommunicable Diseases in the Tropics
848
13 Environmental Disorders
1084
14 Nutrition
1151
15 MaternalChild Health
1177
Appendices
1215
Index
1283

8 Mycobacterial Infections
468
9 Protozoan Infections
532

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About the author (2013)

Jeremy Farrar, FRCP, FMedAcSci, DPhil, OBE Wellcome Trust (From 5 May 2023 Chief Scientist World Health Organization)

Peter J. Hotez, MD, PhD Professor, Pediatrics and Molecular & Virology and Microbiology and Dean, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine; Texas Children’s Hospital Endowed Chair of Tropical Pediatrics, The Texas Medical Center, Houston, TX, USA

Thomas Junghanss, MD, MScPHDC (Lon) Internal Medicine, subspecialties Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Professor (apl) Section Clinical Tropical Medicine University Hospital Heidelberg Heidelberg, Germany

Gagandeep Kang - From 1 May 2023, Director-EDGE, Global Health, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

David Lalloo, MBBS, MD, FRCP, FFTM, RCPS(Glasg) Director and Professor of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK

Nicholas J. White, OBE, MD, DSc, FRCP, F Med Sci, FRS Professor of Tropical Medicine, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand; Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

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