Essentials of tropical infectious diseases /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Guerrant, Richard L., Walker, David H., 1943-, Weller, Peter F.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Churchill Livingstone, [2001]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Sect. 1. Practice: approach to the patient
  • Fever and systemic symptoms
  • Gastrointestinal symptoms
  • Eosinophilia
  • Cutaneous lesions
  • Hepatobiliary disease
  • Pulmonary disease
  • Ocular disease
  • Neurologic disease
  • Anemia
  • Urologic symptoms
  • Sexually transmitted diseases
  • The human immunodeficiency virus and coinfecting tropical infectious diseases
  • Health advice for international travel
  • Sect. 2. Pathogens
  • A. Bacterial and mycobacterial infections
  • Enteric E. coli infections: introduction to enteric bacterial infections
  • Typhoid fever
  • Nontyphoidal salmonellosis
  • Shigellosis
  • Campylobacter infections
  • Cholera
  • "Non-cholera" vibrio infections
  • Enteric clostridium infections
  • Helicobacter pylori infections
  • Meningococcal infections
  • Gonococcal and other neisserial infections
  • Haemophilus infections
  • Calymmatobacterium granulomatis infection (donovanosis)
  • Pneumococcal infections
  • Streptococcal and staphylococcal infections
  • Pertussis
  • Legionellosis
  • Mellioidosis
  • Diphtheria
  • Tuberculosis and atypical mycobacterial infections
  • Leprosy
  • Anthrax
  • Bartonelloses
  • Brucellosis
  • Plague
  • Tetanus
  • B. Spirochetal infections
  • Treponemal infections
  • Relapsing fever and other borrelia infections
  • Leptospirosis
  • C. Chlamydial infections
  • Trachoma
  • Chlamydia trachomatis infections of the genital tract (oculogenital infections and lymphogranuloma venereum)
  • Psittacosis
  • D. Rickettsial and ehrlichial infections
  • Spotted fever group rickettsioses
  • Typhus group rickettsioses
  • Scrub typhus
  • Ehrlichioses
  • Q fever
  • E. Fungal infections
  • Dermatophytosis
  • Mycetoma
  • Chromoblastomycosis and phaeohyphomycosis
  • Histoplasmosis, blastomycosis, coccidiodomycosis, and cryptococcosis
  • Paracoccidioidomycosis
  • Penicilliosis marneffei
  • Candida infections
  • Entomophthoramycosis, lobomycosis, rhinosporidiosis, and sporotrichosis
  • Pneumocystosis
  • F. Protozoan infections
  • Enteric amebiasis
  • Intestinal flagellate and ciliate infections
  • Intestinal coccidial infections
  • Malaria
  • Babesiosis
  • African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness)
  • American trypanosomiasis (Chagas' disease)
  • Leishmaniasis
  • Free-living amebae: Naegleria, Acanthamoeba, and Balamuthia infections
  • Nonintestinal flagellates
  • Systemic coccidia (toxoplasmosis)
  • Microsporidiosis
  • G. Nematode infections
  • Filariasis
  • Loiasis and Mansonella infections
  • Onchocerciasis
  • Zoonotic filariasis
  • Dracunculiasis
  • Toxocariasis and larva migrans syndromes
  • Trichinellosis
  • Angiostrongyliasis
  • Other tissue nematode infections
  • Enterobiasis
  • Trichuriasis
  • Ascariasis
  • Hookworm infections
  • Strongyloidiasis
  • H. Cestode infections
  • Overview of cestode infections
  • Taeniasis
  • Cysticercosis
  • Diphyllobothriasis
  • Echinococcosis
  • Other cestode infections
  • I. Trematode infections
  • Schistosomiasis
  • Liver, lung, and intestinal fluke infections
  • J. Viral infections
  • Measles
  • Human herpesvirus infections
  • Smallpox and monkeypox
  • Influenza virus, respiratory syncytial virus, parainfluenza viruses, rhinovirus, and respiratory adenoviruses
  • Enterovirus infections, including poliomyelitis
  • Rotavirus infections
  • Calicivirus infections
  • Astrovirus, enteric adenovirus, and other enteric viral infections
  • Hepatitis
  • Overview of viral hemorrhagic fevers
  • Arenavirus infections
  • Bunyaviral fevers: Rift Valley fever and Crimean-Congo hemorrahagic fever
  • Hantavirus infections
  • Other bunyavirus infections
  • Filovirus infections
  • Yellow fever
  • Dengue and dengue hemorrhagic fever
  • Other flavivirus infections
  • Alphavirus infections
  • Rabies
  • AIDS and AIDS-related infections
  • K. Ectoparasitic infections
  • Arthropods, tongue worms, leeches, and arthropod-borne diseases
  • Appendix 1: Micronutrient requirements
  • Appendix 2: Immunizations
  • Appendix 3: Chemotherapy of tropical infectious diseases.