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Lecture Notes on Tropical Medicine is a core text with an emphasis on the clinical aspects of problem-solving in the tropics. This new, revised edition includes a more global and syndromic approach to tropical medicine.

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Lecture Notes on Tropical Medicine is a core text with an emphasis on the clinical aspects of problem-solving in the tropics. This new, revised edition includes a more global and syndromic approach to tropical medicine.

Section A covers clinical presentations according to body systems and syndromic approaches, so that the reader can go straight to the relevant section for clues to the likely diagnosis. Section B gives core knowledge & clinical advice on the major tropical infections such as malaria and leprosy. The final section covers other serious tropical diseases, grouped by main body system of presentation, which includes cholera, hepatitis and scabies amongst others.

Additionally, this edition includes new chapters that broaden the traditional scope of tropical medicine . These include a chapter on HIV & Aids which reflects the impact that these have had on the tropics, a chapter on non-communicable diseases and their management, as well as a new chapter on refugee health that covers humanitarian emergencies, control of epidemics as well as health assessment of asylum seekers. As always, carefully selected colour plates and an increased number of illustrations, effectively portray clinical conditions. This fifth edition of Lecture Notes on Tropical Medicine is a very practical companion for the increasing number of medical students and junior doctors who have the opportunity to practice medicine in the tropics. It is also a key resource for clinicians who see patients with `tropical' disorders.

Lecture Notes on Tropical Medicine is a core text with an emphasis on the clinical aspects of problem-solving and management in the tropics. It is a practical companion for the increasing number of students and doctors who have the opportunity to practice medicine in the tropics and is also a key resource for clinicians who see patients with tropical disorders.

This new, revised edition includes a more global and syndromic approach to tropical medicine. A new section covers clinical presentations according to body systems and syndromic approaches. Two further sections give core knowledge and pragmatic clinical advice on both major tropical infections and relevant diseases in the tropics including malaria, tuberculosis and AIDS. This edition also includes new chapters that broaden the traditional scope of tropical medicine : a chapter on non-communicable diseases, such as epilepsy, diabetes and hypertension, which are becoming more widespread in the tropics, and a chapter on refugee health that covers humanitarian disasters, control of epidemics and health assessment of asylum seekers.

Carefully selected colour plates and an increased number of illustrations effectively portray clinical conditions. All in all, Lecture Notes on Tropical Medicine remains the best core text on tropical medicine.

'[this book] tells you what the safe humane doctor actually does when confronted by an will patient with only his or her clinical skills for guidance, nothing in the laboratory pipeline and a very limited choice of available treatments

British Medical Journal

"An ideal quick reference text with just that little bit extra and no burden of detail"
2nd Opinion, 1996

"Buy it if you want a refreshingly practical book for your tropical elective"
Sheffield Medical Gazette, 1997

'easy to access and up-to-date'
British Journal of Dermatology

'provides excellent value for money'
Tropical Diseases Bulletin

"Perfect for third years off on their electives who need a lightweight reference book, and a useful grounding for students considering tropical medicine as a future career."

5th Year Medical Student, University of Liverpool
Sphincter, June 2004

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Table of Contents:

1: A General Approach to Syndromes/Symptom Complexes.

1 Gastrointestinal presentations.

2 Respiratory presentations.

3 Neurological presentations.

4 Febrile Presentations.

5 Dermatological presentations.

6 The patient with anaemia.

7 A syndromic approach to sexually transmitted infections.

8 Splenomegaly in the Tropics.

2: Major Tropical Infections.

9 Malaria.

10 Visceral Leishmaniasis.

11 Cutaneous Leishmaniasis.

12 Tuberculosis.

13 HIV infection and disease in the Tropics.

14 Filariasis and Onchocerciasis.

15 African Trypanosomiasis.

16 South American Trypanosomiasis (Chagas' Disease).

17 Schistosomiasis.

18 Leprosy.

3: Other Tropical Diseases.

Gastrointestinal:.

19 Amoebiasis.

20 Bacillary Dysentery.

21 Cholera.

22 Giardiasis.

23 Intestinal Cestode Infections (Tapeworms).

24 Soil-transmitted helminths.

25 Viral Hepatitis.

26 Liver flukes.

27 Hydatid disease.

Respiratory:.

28 Pneumonia.

29 Lung flukes.

30 Tropical Pulmonary eosinophilia.

Neurological:.

31 Pyogenic Meningitis.

32 Cryptococcal Meningitis.

33 Encephalitis.

34 Acute flaccid paralysis.

35 Spastic paralysis.

36 Rabies.

37 Tetanus.

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Fever:.

38 Brucellosis.

39 Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fevers.

40 Arboviruses.

41 Viral Haemorrhagic Fevers.

42 Dengue and Yellow Fever.

43 Relapsing Fevers.

44 Rickettsia.

45 Leptospirosis.

46 Melioidosis.

Miscellaneous:.

47 Tropical Ulcer.

48 Buruli Ulcer.

49 Myiasis.

50 Cutaneous Larva Migrans.

51 Scabies and Lice.

52 Strongyloides stercoralis.

53 Guinea worm infection (Dracunculiasis).

54 Histoplasmosis.

55 Other Fungal Infections.

56 Haemoglobinopathies and Red Cell Enzymopathies.

57 Haematinic Deficiences.

58 Bites and Stings.

59 Non-Communicable Diseases.

60 Refugee Health

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