New emerging diseases, new diagnostic modalities for resource-poor
settings, new vaccine schedules . all significant, recent
developments in the fast-changing field of tropical medicine.
Hunter's Tropical Medicine and Emerging Infectious Diseases, 10th
Edition, keeps you up to date with everything from infectious
diseases and environmental issues through poisoning and toxicology,
animal injuries, and nutritional and micronutrient deficiencies
that result from traveling to tropical or subtropical regions. This
comprehensive resource provides authoritative clinical guidance,
useful statistics, and chapters covering organs, skills, and
services, as well as traditional pathogen-based content. You'll get
a full understanding of how to recognize and treat these unique
health issues, no matter how widespread or difficult to control.
Includes important updates on malaria, leishmaniasis, tuberculosis
and HIV, as well as coverage of Ebola, Zika virus, Chikungunya, and
other emerging pathogens. Provides new vaccine schedules and
information on implementation. Features five all-new chapters:
Neglected Tropical Diseases: Public Health Control Programs and
Mass Drug Administration; Health System and Health Care Delivery;
Zika; Medical Entomology; and Vector Control - as well as 250 new
images throughout. Presents the common characteristics and methods
of transmission for each tropical disease, as well as the
applicable diagnosis, treatment, control, and disease prevention
techniques. Contains skills-based chapters such as dentistry,
neonatal pediatrics and ICMI, and surgery in the tropics, and
service-based chapters such as transfusion in resource-poor
settings, microbiology, and imaging. Discusses maladies such as
delusional parasitosis that are often seen in returning travelers,
including those making international adoptions, transplant
patients, medical tourists, and more. Enhanced eBook version
included with purchase, which allows you to access all of the text,
figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.
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