Im Zuge der Globalisierung, bei der Container und Menschen von einem Kontinent zum anderen transportiert werden, landen täglich Erreger oder Krankheitsüberträger in Europa an und können sich schnell ausbreiten.
Networks in Tropical Medicine explores how European doctors and scientists worked together across borders to establish the new field of tropical medicine in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
This book reviews the current strategies and challenges for the treatment of bacterial, fungal, parasitic and viral infectious diseases in developing countries.
In diesem Lehrbuch wird die medizinische Mikrobiologie von den allgemeinen Grundlagen über die Immunologie, die Diagnostik bis hin zur Chemotherapie dargestellt.
This fully updated and expanded second edition provides an overview of the major neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) occurring in sub-Saharan Africa, such as leishmaniasis, buruli ulcer, schistosomiasis and many more.
The Eradication of Dracunculiasis (Guinea Worm Disease) in Nigeria: An Eyewitness Account documents the process used to eradicate one of the most neglected public health challenges in Nigeria.
Leishmaniasis is a neglected tropical disease that is known to be transmitted by 90 different species of sandflies which carry 20 Leishmania species that cause human infection particularly in endemic countries.
Offering an example for transnational cooperation and successful reduction of a neglected tropical disease, this volume shows how Chinese scientists and local physicians controlled schistosomiasis in Zanzibar.
The vast majority of the global population has pigmented non-Caucasian skin; accordingly, this book focuses on the diagnosis and management of skin diseases in dark-skinned populations, paying particular attention to different reactive profiles, the frequency and the clinical pictures of diseases in pigmented ethnic skin that arise in hot climate zones.
Infectious diseases as a specialty suffers from many unique challenges stemming from lower salaries compared to other medical specialties and difficulty keeping the younger demographic within the field.
Knowledge in the field of parasitology must be kept at a high level and up to date in order to fight a parasitosis as quickly and effectively as possible.
Von Patientengeschichten lernen: Dieses Buch präsentiert spannende Kasuistiken aus der pädiatrischen Infektiologie, wie sie sich in jeder Kinder- und Jugendarztpraxis oder in der Notfallambulanz einer Kinderklinik ereignen könnten.
Im Zuge der Globalisierung, bei der Container und Menschen von einem Kontinent zum anderen transportiert werden, landen täglich Erreger oder Krankheitsüberträger in Europa an und können sich schnell ausbreiten.
This book discusses the need to establish social work for Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) with an emphasis on the emerging role of effective and sustainable social interventions for the control and elimination of NTDs.
Este libro es el fruto de la experiencia como docente en la asignatura de Medicina Interna en el Departamento Clínico de la Universidad de Caldas, en su componente de Medicina Tropical, así como en las asignaturas de Bacteriología, Virología y Micología en el programa de Bacteriología de la Universidad Católica de Manizales.
Este libro explora el proceso de construcción del concepto de "fiebre amarilla selvática" y e rol que los investigadores colombianos desempeñaron en dicho descubrimiento.
The book will cover the most important zoonoses with a public health impact and debate actual developments in this field from a One Health perspective.
Detailed information dealing with the ecology of mycobacteria is derived from a variety of different scientific fields such as botany, biochemistry, genetics, immunology, microbiology and epidemiology.
The United States-Japan Cooperative Medical Science Program was initiated in 1965 by joint agreement between the President of the United States and the Prime Minister of Japan.
