Tropical Diseases A Practical Guide for Medical Practitioners PDF

Book Introduction ; About the Main and Contributing Authors ; Acknowledgements ; Disease and Patient Introduction ; Part One: Parasitic Diseases ; Blood and Lymphatic System Diseases ; * Filariasis (lymphatic) ; * Leishmaniasis (visceral, or kala azar, or dum dum disease) ; * Malaria (or blackwater fever) ; * Trypanosomiasis (African, or sleeping sickness) ; * Trypanosomiasis (American, or Chagas disease) ; Digestive Tract Diseases ; * Amebiasis (intestinal) ; * Amebiasis (liver) ; * Amebiasis (ameboma) ; * Balantidiasis (or balantidiosis) ; * Ancylostomiasis (or hookworm disease) ; * Ascariasis ; * Distomatosis (biliary/liver, or biliary/liver fluke infection including opistorchiasis and fascioliasis) ; * Distomatosis (intestinal) ; * Giardiasis (or beaver fever) ; * Schistosomiasis (intestinal) ; * Strongyloidiasis ; * Trichuriasis (or whipworm disease) ; Lung Disease ; * Paragonimiasis (or lung fluke infection) ; Nail and Hair Diseases ; Nail Diseases ; * Candidiasis (or moniliasis) ; * Dermatophytosis ; Hair Diseases ; * Pediculosis capitis (or head lice) ; * Pthiriasis (or crabs) ; * Tinea capitis (or head ringworm) ; Sexual Organ Diseases ; * Candidiasis (or moniliasis) ; * Trichomoniasis ; Skin and Integumentary System Diseases ; * Candidiasis (or moniliasis) ; * Dermatophytosis ; * Dracunculiasis (or Guinea worm disease or dracontiasis) ; * Leishmaniasis (cutaneous) ; * Leishmaniasis (muco-cutaneous) ; * Loiasis (or eyeworm disease) ; * Malasseziosis (or pityriasis versicolor) ; * Myiasis (or tumba fly) ; * Onchocerciasis (or river blindness) ; * Pediculosis corporis (or body lice) ; * Scabies (or Norwegian itch) ; * Tinea nigra palmis and plantaris ; * Tungiasis ; Urinary Tract Diseases ; * Schistosomiasis (urinary) ; Parasitic Dead-ends and Larval Diseases ; * Angiostrongyliasis ; * Cenurosis ; * Cysticercosis ; * Gnathostomiasis ; * Hydatidosis ; * Larva migrans (cutaneous, or creeping eruption) ; * Linguatulosis ; * Porocephalosis ; * Sparganosis ; * Toxocariasis (or visceral larva migrans or roudworm infection) ; * Trichinellosis ; Part Two: Deep Fungal Diseases ; * Basidiobolomycosis ; * Blastomycosis (North American, or Gilchrist disease or Chicago disease) ; * Blastomycosis (South American, or Lutz-Splendore-Almeida disease) ; * Chromomycosis ; * Coccidioidomycosis (or Posada, Wernicke and Rixford disease) ; * Conidiobolomycosis ; * Histoplasmosis (African) ; * Histoplasmosis (American, or Darling disease) ; * Lobomycosis (or Jorge Lobo disease) ; * Mycetoma (or Madura foot) ; * Pythiosis ; * Rhinosporidiosis ; * Scytalidiosis ; Part Three: Bacterial, Chlamydial and Prion Diseases ; Bacterial Diseases ; * Anthrax ; * Bartonellosis (or Carrion disease) ; * Bejel (or endemic syphilis) ; * Buruli ulcers (or Bairnsdale or Daintree or Mossman or Searls ulcer, or mycoburuli ulcers) ; * Diphtheria ; * Chancroid (or soft chancre, or ulcus molle) ; * Cholera ; * Gonorrhea (or clap) ; * Granuloma inguinale (or Donovan disease) ; * Leprosy (or Hansen disease) ; * Leptospirosis (or Weil disease, or Nanukayami fever) ; * Melioidosis (or Whitmore disease) ; * Meningococcal meningitis ; * Pertussis (or whooping cough) ; * Pinta (or carate) ; * Plague (or black death) ; * Salmonellosis (typhoid fever or enteric fever) ; * Salmonellosis (Salmonella gastroenteritis) ; * Shigellosis ; * Syphilis (or hard chancre) ; * Tuberculosis (or TB) ; * Yaws (or pian, or parangi, or paru, or frambesia tropica) ; Chlamydial Diseases ; * Lymphogranuloma venereum (or Durand-Nicholas-Favre disease) ; * Trachoma (or granular conjunctivitis or Egyptian ophthalmia) ; * Urethritis and cervicitis ; Prion Disease ; * Variant Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease ; Part Four: Viral Diseases ; Common Diseases ; * Dengue fever (or breakbone fever) ; * Hepatitis ; * Herpes simplex (or cold or fever sore) ; * HIV/AIDS ; * Influenza (flu) ; * Measles ; * Poliomyelitis (or polio) ; * Yellow fever (or black vomit) ; Rare Diseases ; * Arboviral diseases ; * Arenaviral diseases (including Tacaribe complex and Lassa fever diseases) ; * Bunyaviral diseases (including Rift Valley fever -RVF-) ; * Coronaviral disease (S.A.R.S.) ; * Filoviral diseases (including Ebola and Marburg virus diseases) ; * Flaviviral diseases ; * Hantaviral diseases (including Hantan virosis) ; * Paramyxoviral diseases (including Hendra and Nipah viroses) ; * Reoviral diseases (including rotavirus disease) ; * Rhabdoviral diseases (including Mossuril virus and lyssavirus diseases) ; * Togaviral diseases (including Chikungunya virus disease) ; Part Five: Other Tropical Health Hazards ; Animal-induced Diseases ; * Bees and hymenoptera ; * Butterflies ; * Cats (including allergies, cat bite, cat scratch disease, mycoses, rabies, scabies, taeniasis, tetanus, toxocarosis) ; * Centipedes ; * Dogs (including dog bite, cutaneous larva migrans, linguatulosis, mycoses, rabies, scabies, tetanus, toxocarosis) ; * Fish ; * Fleas (including murine typhus, plague, taeniasis, tungiasis) ; * Jelly fish/Anemones/Physaliae ; * Leeches ; * Lice (including epidemic louse-borne typhus, pediculosis capitis, pediculosis corporis, pthiriasis, trench fever, ubiquitous relapsing fever) ; * Mollusks ; * Muraenae (or moray eels) ; * Rats (including sodoku, tetanus) ; * Scorpions ; * Snakes ; * Spiders ; * Ticks (including arboviroses, regional relapsing fever) ; * Trombiculidae (scrub typhus) ; Exotic Food Poisoning ; * Ciguatera ; * Other ichtyosarcotoxisms ; * Fish poisoning ; * Mushroom poisoning ; Heat-related Illnesses ; * Miliaria (or prickly heat) ; * Tropical anhidrotic asthenia (or heat asthenia) ; * Heat exhaustion ; * Heat stroke ; Travelers and Tropical Diseases ; * Mortality/morbidity ; * Precautions to take before, during and after traveling ; * Traveler’s diarrhea (or turista) ; Antibiotic Resistance ; Addendum ; * Differential diagnosis ; * Diarrhea ; * Fever ; * Pruritus ; * Splenomegaly ; International Generic and Brand Names of Drugs ; Contraindications for Drugs ; List of FDA-Approved Vaccines ; List of Vaccines Available in France ; Link to Major International Healthcare Organizations ; Map and Table Indexes ; Patient Cases Index ; Disease Index ; Symptom Index ; Meaning of Abbreviations ; Key Words ; Abstract ; References
Tropical Diseases A Practical Guide for Medical Practitioners PDF Ebook

Yann Meunier is the CEO of HealthConnect International Inc, a healthcare consulting company based in Silicon Valley, CA, and Advisor in the Medscholars Research Fellowships Program at Stanford University School of Medicine.
He is honorary member of the Brazilian Academy of Medicine, associate member of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore, member of the International Academy of Fellows and Associates, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and fellow of the Australasian College of Tropical Medicine.