Full Description
Documenting the advances in tropical diseases and the technologies used to diagnose and treat the conditions, this text records the physical and biological progress of the diseases. The results of hybridization techniques, flow cytometry, image analysis, telepathology and serologic analysis have contributed to the recording of the diseases. The continuous and rapid improvement of tourism in all countries of the world and the increasing emigration of peoples of the developing countries to the old continents have changed the classical image of tropical diseases which are seen with greater frequency in temperate and highly developed countries.
Contents
Contents: General Aspects: Guidelines for Autopsies in the Tropics.- Geomedicine.- Genetic Diseases in the Tropics.- Infectious Diseases: New Technology for the Diagnosis of Infectious Disease.- Bacterial Diseases: Intestinal Bacterial Infections.- Non-Intestinal Bacterial Infections.- Spirochaetal and Leptospiral Diseases.- Infections Caused by Rickettsiae and Rickettsia-Like Organisms and Bartonellosis.- Mycobacterial Infections of the Skin.- Sexually Transmitted Diseases in the Tropics.- Viral Diseases: The Viral Haemorrhagic Fevers.- Protozoal Diseases: Intestinal Protozoa.- Malaria.- Leishmaniasis.- Trypanosomiasis.- Mycotic Diseases: Tropical Mycotic Diseases.- Metazoal Diseases: Helminthology.- Non-Infectious Diseases: Malnutrition and Intestinal Malabsorption.- Special Pathology of Organ Systems: Cardiovascular Diseases in the Tropics.- Blood Diseases in the Tropics.- Cirrhosis and Other Liver Diseases.- Renal Diseases in the Tropics.- Neoplasias: Cancer in the Tropics.- Kaposi's Sarcoma.- Environmental Diseases: Environmental Diseases in the Tropics.- Addendum: Diseases of Uncertain Aetiology.
