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Clinical Cases in Tropical Medicine

  • 2nd Edition - October 22, 2020
  • Latest edition
  • Author: Camilla Rothe
  • Language: English

Using an easily accessible, highly templated format, Clinical Cases in Tropical Medicine, 2nd Edition, provides more than 100 realistic scenarios for tropical infectious disea… Read more

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Using an easily accessible, highly templated format, Clinical Cases in Tropical Medicine, 2nd Edition, provides more than 100 realistic scenarios for tropical infectious diseases. Full-color photographs and maps, a convenient question-and-answer presentation, and succinct summary boxes help you identify and understand the tropical diseases you’re likely to encounter. This up-to-date 2nd Edition is an excellent resource and study tool for infectious diseases fellows, doctors preparing for exams in tropical medicine, primary care doctors with patients who are global travelers, and global health nurses and practitioners alike.

Key features

  • Offers realistic scenarios for encountering patients in rural, resource-poor settings, presenting cases as "unknowns," just as in a real clinic or emergency situation
  • Covers newly emerging diseases such as Zika virus, severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS), and knowlesi malaria
  • Features topics in migrant medicine of particular importance to clinicians in non-tropical countries, including louse-borne-relapsing fever, spinal brucellosis, and hyperreactive malarial splenomegaly
  • Includes "classic" tropical diseases such as African trypanosomiasis, chagas, leprosy, and yaws
  • Reflects the use of novel diagnostics used in resource-poor settings, as well as developing drug resistance in relevant cases
  • Serves as a companion to Manson's Tropical Diseases, with a reading list at the end of each case referring to the corresponding chapter in the larger text
  • Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices

Readership

Tropical Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Travel Medicine

Table of contents

1. A 20-Year-Old Woman from Sudan With Fever, Haemorrhage and Shock

2. A 7-Year-Old Girl from Peru With a Chronic Skin Ulcer

3. A 26-Year-Old Woman from Malawi with Headache, Confusion and Unilateral Ptosis

4. A 4-Year-Old Girl from Uganda in a Coma

5. A 4-Year-Old Boy from Laos With a Lesion of the Lip and Cheek

6. A 36-Year-Old Male Traveller Returning from Botswana With a Creeping Eruption

7. A 28-Year-Old Male Fisherman from Malawi With Shortness of Breath

8. A 26-Year-Old Female Traveller Returning from Ghana With a Boil on the Leg

9. A 52-Year-Old Man from Vietnam With Evolving Shock

10. A 55-Year-Old Indigenous Woman from Australia With a Widespread Exfoliating Rash and Sepsis

11. A 45-Year-Old Male Security Guard from Malawi With Difficulties in Walking and Back Pain

12. A 29-Year-Old Man from The Gambia With Genital Ulceration

13. A 16-Year-Old Girl from Malawi With Fever and Abdominal Pain

14. A 22-Year-Old Woman from Bangladesh With Profuse Watery Diarrhoea

15. A 3-Year-Old Boy from Laos With Right Suppurative Parotitis

16. A 25-Year-Old Female School Teacher from Malawi With Abrupt Onset of Fever and Confusion

17. A 34-Year-Old Man from Thailand With Fever and a Papular Rash

18. A 56-Year-Old Man Returning from a Trip to Thailand With Eosinophilia

19. A 40-Year-Old Man from Togo With Subcutaneous Nodules and Corneal Opacities

20. A 43-Year-Old Male Traveller Returning from Mozambique With Fever and Eosinophilia

21. A 35-Year-Old American Man With Fatigue and a Neck Lesion

22. 32-Year-Old Woman from Nigeria With Jaundice and Confusion

23. A 31-Year-Old HIV-Positive Business Traveller With Cough, Shortness of Breath and Night Sweats

24. A 14-Year-Old Boy from Rural Tanzania With Difficulty in Walking

25. A 72-Year-Old Male Farmer from Laos With Extensive Skin Lesions on the Lower Leg

26. A 14-Year-Old Boy from Malawi Who Has Been Bitten by a Snake

27. A 16-Year-Old Boy from Sri Lanka With Fever Jaundice and Renal Failure

28. A 67-Year-Old Female Expatriate Living in Cameroon With Eosinophilia and Pericarditis

29. A 35-Year-Old Woman from Malawi With Fever and Severe Anaemia

30. A 12-Year-Old Boy from Rural Kenya With Painful Eyes

31. A 6-Year-Old Boy from Malawi With Fever, Cough and Impaired Consciousness

32. A 44-Year-Old Male Farmer from Laos With Diabetes and a Back Abscess

33. A 53-Year-Old Man from Malawi With a Chronic Cough

34. A 35-Year-Old Male Farmer from Peru With a Chronic Ulcer and Multiple Nodular Lesions on the Arm

35. A 32-Year-Old Woman from Malawi With Headache and Blurred Vision

36. A 23-Year-Old Farmer from Myanmar With Unilateral Scrotal Swelling

37. A 29-Year-Old Woman from Malawi With Confusion, Diarrhoea and a Skin Rash

38. A 24-Year-Old Female Globetrotter With Strange Sensations in the Right Side of Her Body

39. A 30-Year-Old Male Chinese Trader With Fever in Laos

40. A 62-Year-Old Woman from Ethiopia With Difficulty Eating

41. A 7-Year-Old Girl from West Africa With Two Skin Ulcers and a Contracture of Her Right Wrist

42. A 41-Year-Old Male Traveller Returning from Australia With Itchy Eruptions on His Thighs

43. A 35-Year-Old Malawian Woman With a Painful Ocular Tumour

44. A 7-Year-Old Girl from South Sudan With Undulating Fever

45. A 2-Month-Old Girl from Laos With Dyspnoea, Cyanosis and Irritability

46. A 45-Year-Old Man from Sri Lanka With Fever and Right Hypochondrial Pain

47. A 32-Year-Old Man from Malawi With a Painfully Swollen Neck

48. A 31-Year-Old Woman from Tanzania With Acute Flaccid Paraplegia

49. A 33-Year-Old Male Traveller to India With Diarrhoea and Flatulence for Two Weeks

50. A 24-Year-Old Man of Turkish Origin With Jaundice and Cystic Liver Lesions

51. A 34-Year-Old HIV-Positive Woman from Malawi With Slowly Progressive Half-Sided Weakness

52. A 56-Year-Old Man from Peru With Prolonged Fever and Severe Anaemia

53. A 24-Year-Old Woman from Uganda With Fever and Shock

54. A 52-Year-Old Male Safari Tourist Returning from South Africa With Fever and a Skin Lesion

55. A 40-Year-Old Male Farmer from Peru With Chronic Cough and Weight Loss

56. A 21-Year-Old Pregnant Woman from The Gambia With a Rash

57. A 37-Year-Old Woman from Malawi With Haematemesis

58. A 25-Year-Old Woman from Egypt With Severe Chronic Diarrhoea and Malabsorption

59. A 24-Year-Old Man from Malawi With Skin Lesions and Breathlessness

60. A 6-Year-Old Boy from Malawi With Proptosis of the Left Eye

61. A 48-Year-Old Woman from Thailand With Fever and Disseminated Cutaneous Abscesses

62. A 28-Year-Old Man from Ghana With a Chronic Ulcer on His Ankle

63. A 38-Year-Old European Expatriate Living in Malawi With Difficulty Passing Urine

64. A 40-Year-Old Woman from Thailand and Her Brother-in-Law With Severe Headache

65. A 4-Year-Old Girl from Bolivia With a Dark Nodule on Her Toe

66. A 32-Year-Old Man from Malawi With Pain in the Right Upper Abdomen and a Feeling of Faintness

67. A 24-Year-Old Woman from the Peruvian Andes With Fever and Abdominal Pain

68. A 31-Year-Old Woman from Malawi With a Generalized Mucocutaneous Rash

69. A 22-Year-Old Male Farmer from Rural Ethiopia With Difficulty Walking

70. A 58-Year-Old Woman from Sri Lanka With Fever, Deafness and Confusion

71. A 71-Year-Old Man from Japan With Eosinophilia and a Nodular Lesion in the Lung

72. A 4-Year-Old Boy from Mozambique With Severe Oedema and Skin Lesions

73. A 21-Year-Old Male Migrant from Rural Mali With Massive Splenomegaly

74. A 28-Year-Old Woman from Sierra Leone With Fever and Conjunctivitis

75. A 25-Year-Old Woman from Zambia With a New-Onset Seizure

76. A 55-Year Old Woman from Turkey With Fever of Unknown Origin

77. A 51-Year-Old Female Traveller Returning from Central America With Conjunctivitis, Rash and Peripheral Oedema

78. A 42-Year-Old British Man Living in Malawi With Anaphylactic Shock

79. A 34-Year-Old Male Immigrant from Peru With Chronic Diarrhoea and Severe Weight Loss

80. A 62-Year-Old Man from Thailand With a Liver Mass

81. A 33-Year-Old Refugee from Afghanistan With Recurrent Fever and Back Pain

82. A 31-Year-Old Man from Guatemala With Acute Weakness and Numbness of the Leg

83. An 18-Year-Old Man from India With a Pale Patch on His Right Upper Limb

84. A 64-Year-Old Japanese Man With Generalized Tonic-Clonic Seizures

85. A 55-Year-Old Female Pig Farmer from Vietnam With Fever and Impaired Consciousness

86. A 14-Year-Old Girl in the Solomon Islands With a Non-Healing Leg Ulcer

87. A 27-Year-Old Male Traveller Returning from the Peruvian Amazon With Persisting Polyarthralgias

88. A 74-Year-Old Man from Japan With Fever, Nausea and Drowsiness

89. A 30-Year-Old Woman from Bolivia With Exertional Dyspnoea

90. A 55-Year-Old Couple Both Returning from Chile and Argentina With Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

91. A 20-Year-Old Male from India With Fever and Quadriparesis

92. A 42-Year-Old Traveller Returning from Thailand With Fever and Thrombocytopenia

93. A 35-Year-Old Male Logger from Peru With Fever, Jaundice and Bleeding

94. A 20-Year-Old Woman from the Democratic Republic of the Congo With Fever and a Vesiculopustular Skin Rash

95. A 42-Year-Old Male Refugee from the Democratic Republic of the Congo With Progressive Depression

96. A 19-Year-Old Boy from India With Drooping, Diplopia and Dysphagia

97. An 87-Year-Old Japanese Man With a Serpiginous Erythema on the Right Thigh

98. A 17-Year-Old Boy from South India With a Fever and a Reduced Level of Consciousness

99. A 43-Year-Old Male Traveller Returning from the Australian Outback with Fever, Joint Pains and a Rash

100. A 25-Year-Old Man from Ethiopia With a Nodular Rash

101. A 46-Year-Old Male Traveller with Chronic Cough After a Trip to South America

102. A 16-Year-Old Male Refugee from Somalia With High Fever and Slurred Speech

103. A 43-Year-Old Man from Peru With a Chronic Fistulating Foot Lesion

Review quotes

"This book teaches us to be skilled but pragmatic clinicians, diagnose and treat common and rare conditions. It shows us how to take a simple history and a focussed examination, make efficient use of simple diagnostics tests and investigations which are available in settings with limited resources at your disposition. It covers the investigation, diagnosis, and treatment of common conditions as well as the more complex, rare infectious diseases. Most of all, it teaches us to be empathic, and caring practitioners. It will remind you why you entered the caring profession in the first place." -Conor Maguire (National Immunisation Advisory Committee, Ireland)

Product details

  • Edition: 2
  • Latest edition
  • Published: November 4, 2020
  • Language: English

About the author

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Camilla Rothe

Affiliations and expertise
Head of Clinical Tropical Medicine, Institute of Infectious Diseases, LMU University Hospital Munich, Munich, Germany

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