Manson's Tropical Diseases (24^th Ed.)

• Covers all of tropical medicine in a comprehensive manner, general medicine in the tropics, and non-clinical issues regarding public health and ethics.

• Serves as an indispensable resource for physicians who treat patients with tropical diseases and/or will be travelling to the tropics, or who are teaching others in this area.

• Contains a new section on 21st Century Drivers of Tropical Medicine, with chapters covering Poverty and Inequality, Public Health in Settings of Conflict and Political Instability, Climate Change, and Medical Product Quality and Public Health.

• Includes all-new chapters on Surgery in the Topics, Yellow Fever, Systemic Mycoses, and COVID-19.

• Covers key topics such as drug resistance; emerging and reemerging infections such as Zika, Ebola, and Chikungunya; novel diagnostics such as PCR-based methods; point-of care-tests such as ultrasound; public health in settings of conflict and political instability; and much more.

• Differentiates approaches for resource-rich and resource-poor areas.

• Includes reader-friendly features such as highlighted key information, convenient boxes and tables, extensive cross-referencing, and clinical management diagrams.

• An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud.

Preface to the First Edition Preface to the Twenty-Fourth Edition Contributors 1 History of Tropical Medicine, and Medicine in the Tropics SECTION I 21st Century Drivers of Tropical Medicine 2 Global Health 3 Poverty and Inequality 4 Public Health in Settings of Conflict and Political Instability 5 Climate Change and Health in the Tropics: Current Status and Future Trends 6 Medical Products Quality and Public Health 7 The Economic Case for Devoting Public Resources to Health 8 Global Health Governance and Tropical Diseases SECTION II Health Research and Ethics 9 Ethics and Tropical Diseases: Some Global Considerations SECTION III Epidemiology 10 Issues and Challenges of Public Health Research in Developing Countries SECTION IV Clinical Assessment 11 Emergency and Intensive Care Medicine in Resource-Poor Settings 12 Ultrasound 13 Surgery in the Tropics SECTION V Viral Infections 14 HIV Epidemiology in the Tropics 15 Clinical Features and Management of HIV/AIDS in Adults 16 HIV in Children 17 HIV/AIDS Prevention 18 Viral Hepatitis 19 Yellow Fever 20 Arbovirus Infections 21 Dengue 22 Viral Haemorrhagic Fevers 23 Rabies 24 Rotavirus and Other Viral Diarrhoea 25 Respiratory Viruses and Atypical Bacteria 26 Viral Exanthems 27 Virus Infections of the Nervous System 28 COVID-19 SECTION VI Bacterial Infections 29 Tropical Rickettsial Infections 30 Sexually Transmitted Infections (Excluding HIV) 31 Bacterial Enteropathogens 32 Salmonella Infections 33 Pneumococcal Disease 34 Bacterial Meningitis 35 Brucellosis 36 Noma, Actinomycosis, and Nocardia 37 Bartonellosis, Cat-scratch Disease, Trench Fever, Human Ehrlichiosis 38 Anthrax 39 Tetanus 40 Plague 41 Melioidosis 42 Diphtheria 43 Spirochaetes Diseases of the Tropics SECTION VII Fungal Infections 44 Superficial and Subcutaneous Mycoses 45 Systemic Mycoses SECTION VIII Mycobacterial Infections 46 Tuberculosis 47 Leprosy 48 Mycobacterium ulcerans Disease (Buruli Ulcer) SECTION IX Protozoan Infections 49 Malaria 50 Babesiosis 51 Human African Trypanosomiasis 52 American Trypanosomiasis: Chagas Disease 53 Leishmaniasis 54 Toxoplasmosis 55 Intestinal Protozoa 56 Pathogenic and Opportunistic Free-Living Amoebae: Agents of Human and Animal Disease SECTION X Helminthic Infections 57 Schistosomiasis 58 Food-borne Trematodes 59 The Filariases 60 Soil-Transmitted Helminths (Geohelminths) 61 Cystic, Alveolar and Neotropical Echinococcosis 62 Other Cestode Infections: Intestinal Cestodes,Cysticercosis, Other Larval Cestode Infections SECTION XI Ectoparasites 63 Scabies 64 Human Lice, Bed Bugs, Sand Fleas, Myiasis, and Leeches SECTION XII Non-communicable Diseases in the Tropics 65 Non-Communicable Diseases: Equity, Action, and Targets 66 Cardiovascular and Vascular Disease in the Tropics Including Ischaemic Heart Disease, Stroke, and Hypertension 67 Diabetes in the Tropics 68 Cancer in the Tropics 69 Haematological Diseases in the Tropics 70 Renal Disease in the Tropics 71 Ophthalmology in the Tropics and Sub-tropics 72 Dermatological Problems in the Tropics 73 Musculoskeletal Disorders 74 Respiratory Problems in the Tropics 75 Tropical Neurology 76 Psychiatry 77 Oral Disease in the Tropics SECTION XIII Environmental Disorders 78 Environmental Stress 79 Venomous and Poisonous Animals 80 Plant Poisons, Hallucinogens, and Traditional Medicines SECTION XIV Nutrition 81 Nutrition-Associated Disease 82 Obesity in the Tropics SECTION XV Maternal/Child Health 83 Obstetrics in the Tropics 84 Paediatrics in the Tropics Appendices Appendix 1: Clinical Laboratory Diagnosis Appendix 2: Parasitic Protozoa Appendix 3: Medical Helminthology Appendix 4: Medical Acarology and Entomology Appendix 5: Sources of Information in Tropical Medicine Index