Description
For 125 years, physicians have relied on Manson's Tropical Diseases for a comprehensive clinical overview of this complex and fast-changing field. The fully revised 24th Edition, Dr. Jeremy Farrar, along with an internationally recognized editorial team, global contributors, and expert authors, delivers the latest coverage on parasitic and infectious diseases from around the world. From the difficult to diagnose to the difficult to treat, this highly readable, award-winning reference prepares you to effectively handle whatever your patients may have contracted.- Covers all of tropical medicine in a comprehensive manner, general medicine in the tropics, and non-clinical issues regarding public health and ethics. - Serves as an indispensable resource for physicians who treat patients with tropical diseases and/or will be travelling to the tropics, or who are teaching others in this area. - Contains a new section on 21st Century Drivers of Tropical Medicine, with chapters covering Poverty and Inequality, Public Health in Settings of Conflict and Political Instability, Climate Change, and Medical Product Quality and Public Health. - Includes all-new chapters on Surgery in the Topics, Yellow Fever, Systemic Mycoses, and COVID-19. - Covers key topics such as drug resistance; emerging and reemerging infections such as Zika, Ebola, and Chikungunya; novel diagnostics such as PCR-based methods; point-of care-tests such as ultrasound; public health in settings of conflict and political instability; and much more. - Differentiates approaches for resource-rich and resource-poor areas. - Includes reader-friendly features such as highlighted key information, convenient boxes and tables, extensive cross-referencing, and clinical management diagrams.
Table of Contents
Preface to the First EditionPreface to the Twenty-Fourth EditionContributors1 History of Tropical Medicine, and Medicine in the TropicsSECTION I 21st Century Drivers of Tropical Medicine2 Global Health3 Poverty and Inequality4 Public Health in Settings of Conflict and Political Instability5 Climate Change and Health in the Tropics: Current Status and Future Trends6 Medical Products Quality and Public Health7 The Economic Case for Devoting Public Resources to Health8 Global Health Governance and Tropical DiseasesSECTION II Health Research and Ethics9 Ethics and Tropical Diseases: Some Global ConsiderationsSECTION III Epidemiology10 Issues and Challenges of Public Health Research in Developing CountriesSECTION IV Clinical Assessment11 Emergency and Intensive Care Medicine in Resource-Poor Settings12 Ultrasound13 Surgery in the TropicsSECTION V Viral Infections14 HIV Epidemiology in the Tropics15 Clinical Features and Management of HIV/AIDS in Adults16 HIV in Children17 HIV/AIDS Prevention18 Viral Hepatitis19 Yellow Fever20 Arbovirus Infections21 Dengue22 Viral Haemorrhagic Fevers23 Rabies24 Rotavirus and Other Viral Diarrhoea25 Respiratory Viruses and Atypical Bacteria26 Viral Exanthems27 Virus Infections of the Nervous System28 COVID-19SECTION VI Bacterial Infections29 Tropical Rickettsial Infections30 Sexually Transmitted Infections (Excluding HIV) 31 Bacterial Enteropathogens32 Salmonella Infections33 Pneumococcal Disease34 Bacterial Meningitis35 Brucellosis36 Noma, Actinomycosis, and Nocardia37 Bartonellosis, Cat-scratch Disease, Trench Fever, Human Ehrlichiosis38 Anthrax39 Tetanus40 Plague41 Melioidosis42 Diphtheria43 Spirochaetes Diseases of the TropicsSECTION VII Fungal Infections44 Superficial and Subcutaneous Mycoses45 Systemic MycosesSECTION VIII Mycobacterial Infections46 Tuberculosis47 Leprosy48 Mycobacterium ulcerans Disease (Buruli Ulcer)SECTION IX Protozoan Infections49 Malaria50 Babesiosis51 Human African Trypanosomiasis52 American Trypanosomiasis: Chagas Disease53 Leishmaniasis54 Toxoplasmosis55 Intestinal Protozoa56 Pathogenic and Opportunistic Free-Living Amoebae: Agents of Human and Animal DiseaseSECTION X Helminthic Infections57 Schistosomiasis58 Food-borne Trematodes59 The Filariases60 Soil-Transmitted Helminths (Geohelminths)61 Cystic, Alveolar and Neotropical Echinococcosis62 Other Cestode Infections: Intestinal Cestodes,Cysticercosis, Other Larval Cestode InfectionsSECTION XI Ectoparasites63 Scabies64 Human Lice, Bed Bugs, Sand Fleas, Myiasis, and LeechesSECTION XII Non-communicable Diseases in the Tropics65 Non-Communicable Diseases: Equity, Action, and Targets66 Cardiovascular and Vascular Disease in the Tropics Including Ischaemic Heart Disease, Stroke, and Hypertension67 Diabetes in the Tropics68 Cancer in the Tropics69 Haematological Diseases in the Tropics70 Renal Disease in the Tropics71 Ophthalmology in the Tropics and Sub-tropics72 Dermatological Problems in the Tropics73 Musculoskeletal Disorders74 Respiratory Problems in the Tropics75 Tropical Neurology76 Psychiatry77 Oral Disease in the TropicsSECTION XIII Environmental Disorders78 Environmental Stress79 Venomous and Poisonous Animals80 Plant Poisons, Hallucinogens, and Traditional MedicinesSECTION XIV Nutrition81 Nutrition-Associated Disease82 Obesity in the TropicsSECTION XV Maternal/Child Health83 Obstetrics in the Tropics84 Paediatrics in the TropicsAppendicesAppendix 1: Clinical Laboratory DiagnosisAppendix 2: Parasitic ProtozoaAppendix 3: Medical HelminthologyAppendix 4: Medical Acarology and EntomologyAppendix 5: Sources of Information in Tropical MedicineIndex
