Hansen's disease (leprosy) is endemic in more than 100 countries worldwide, with over 200,000 new diagnoses each year and more than 4 million people living with some form of HD-related impairment.
This volume provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the various aspects of Lassa virus (LASV), the causative agent of Lassa fever, a frequently fatal zoonotic disease endemic to West Africa.
This volume provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the various aspects of Lassa virus (LASV), the causative agent of Lassa fever, a frequently fatal zoonotic disease endemic to West Africa.
Travel health nursing has evolved as a distinct and increasingly complex specialty, drawing upon the knowledge of nursing, pharmacology, epidemiology, tropical medicine, primary care, and behavioral psychology.
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.
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.
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.
Worldwide, there is a plethora of study materials in the form of authoritative review articles on disease entities afflicting the Western world but relatively few publications exploring similar problems confronting the developing countries, where resource limitation adds an extra dimension to the challenges facing the clinician.
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.
