A Synopsis of Infectious and Tropical Diseases
- 3rd Edition - May 28, 1987
- Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann
- Authors: A. W. Woodruff, S. G. Wright
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 2 3 6 - 0 8 2 6 - 4
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 1 - 8 3 5 6 - 5
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Request a sales quoteA Synopsis of Infectious and Tropical Diseases provides a summary of information on the diagnosis and management of infectious and tropical diseases. It contains essential information required by general practitioners, specialists, medical students and graduates preparing for higher examinations, the nursing profession, and health workers in the proper management of infective and tropical diseases. This book is organized into nine chapters that describe the signs and symptoms, clinical forms and manifestations, incubation period, stages of invasion, mode of transmission, epidemiology, and treatment of different tropical and infectious diseases such as those caused by viruses, protozoans, and metazoan parasites. These diseases include herpesvirus infections, blackwater fever, and trematode or fluke infections. This book will be of interest to travelers and people in the medical profession.
Section 1. Diseases due to Viruses Chapter 1 Herpesvirus Infections Chapter 2 Influenza Chapter 3 Common Cold Chapter 4 Measles Chapter 5 Rubella Chapter 6 Mumps Chapter 7 Rotavirus Infection Chapter 8 Enteroviruses Chapter 9 Poliomyelitis Chapter 10 Rabies Chapter 11 Arbovirus Diseases Chapter 12 Yellow Fever Chapter 13 Dengue Chapter 14 Viral Hepatitis Chapter 15 Phlebotomus Fever Chapter 16 Hemorrhagic Fevers Chapter 17 Marburg and Ebola Virus Infections Chapter 18 Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (Aids) Chapter 19 Kuru Chapter 20 Smallpox Section 2. Rickettsial and Chlamydial Diseases Chapter 21 Typhus Fever Chapter 22 Trench Fever Chapter 23 Q Fever Chapter 24 Lymphogranuloma Venereum Chapter 25 Psittacosis Section 3. Diseases Due to Spirochaetes Chapter 26 Relapsing Fevers Chapter 27 Leptospirosis Chapter 28 Treponematoses Chapter 29 Yaws Chapter 30 Rat-Bite FeverSection 4. Bacterial Diseases Chapter 31 Typhoid Fever Chapter 32 Bacterial Food Poisoning Chapter 33 Dysentery Chapter 34 Streptococcal Infections Chapter 35 Staphylococcal Infections Chapter 36 Diphtheria Chapter 37 Whooping-Cough Chapter 38 Haemophilus Influenza Infections Chapter 39 Meningococcal Meningitis Chapter 40 Gonococcal Infections Chapter 41 Brucellosis Chapter 42 Cholera Chapter 43 Plague Chapter 44 Tetanus Chapter 45 Glanders Chapter 46 Anthrax Chapter 47 Leprosy Chapter 48 Tularaemia Chapter 49 Bartonellosis Section 5. Diseases Due to Mycoses and Higher Bacteria Chapter 50 Actinomycosis, Nocardiosis and Madura Disease Section 6. Protozoan Infections Chapter 51 Malaria Chapter 52 Blackwater Fever Chapter 53 Trypanosomiasis Chapter 54 Leishmaniasis Section 7. Diseases Due to Metazoan Parasites Chapter 55 Trematode or Fluke Infections Chapter 56 Diseases Caused by Cestodes Chapter 57 Diseases Caused by Nematodes Section 8. Nutritional and Hematological Disorders Chapter 58 Nutritional Diseases Chapter 59 Alimentary Disorders of Particular Importance in the Tropics Chapter 60 Anemias of the Tropics Section 9. Miscellaneous Chapter 61 Tropical Ulcer. Tropical Sloughing Phagedena Chapter 62 Venomous Animals Chapter 63 Heat-Induced Disorders Chapter 64 Miscellaneous Diseases Index
- Edition: 3
- Published: May 28, 1987
- No. of pages (eBook): 364
- Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780723608264
- eBook ISBN: 9781483183565
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