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Table of Contents for Tropical Diseases

 

 

Major Multi-System Diseases

 

Chapter 1 - Amebiasis

Chapter 2 - Schistosomiasis

Chapter 3 - Hydatid Disease (Echinococcosis)


Chapter 4 - Chagas' Disease (American Trypanosomiasis)

Chapter 5 - Tuberculosis

 

Chapter 6 - The Mycoses: Diseases Caused by Fungi and Filamentous Bacteria

 

Chapter 7 - Taeniasis, Cysticercosis, Sparganosis, Other Tapeworm Infections

Chapter 8 - The Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) in the Tropics

 

Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Diseases

 

Predominantly Small Bowel

 

Chapter 9 - Giardiasis

Chapter 10 - Ascariasis

Chapter 11 - Anisakiasis

Chapter 12 - Ancylostomiasis (Hookworm Disease)

Chapter 13 - Strongyloidiasis; Angiostrongyliasis

Chapter 14 - Capillariasis; Trichinosis (Trichinellosis)

Chapter 15 - Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fever; Salmonella Infections

Chapter 16 - Tropical Sprue; Kwashiorkor

Predominantly Colon Diseases

Chapter 17 - Trichuriasis (Whipworm Infection)

Chapter 18 - Helminthoma

Chapter 19 - Shigellosis (Bacillary Dysentery)

Chapter 20- Lymphogranuloma Venereum

 

Liver Diseases

 

Chapter 21- Clonorchiasis and Other Liver Fluke Diseases; Oriental Cholangiohepatitis

 

 

 

Chest Diseases

 

Lung Diseases

Chapter 22- Paragonimiasis

Chapter 23- Melioidosis

Chapter 24- Plague

 

 

Cardiovascular Diseases

 

Chapter 25- Cardiac Disease in the Tropics

 

 

 

 

Soft Tissue and Bone Diseases

 

 

Soft Tissue Diseases

 

Chapter 26 - Filariasis and Elephantiasis

Chapter 27 - Guinea Worm Infection (Dracunculiasis)

Chapter 28 - Pentastomiasis
(Armillifer Infection)

Chapter 29 - Tumoral Calcinosis

Chapter 30 - Tropical Pyomyositis

 

 

Bone Diseases

 

Chapter 31- The Hemoglobinopathies: Sickle Cell Disease and Thalassemia

Chapter 32 - Brucellosis

Chapter 33 - Tetanus

Chapter 34 - Leprosy

Chapter 35 - Yaws; Endemic (Nonvenereal) and Congenital Syphilis

Chapter 36 - Tropical Ulcer

Chapter 37 - Ainhum

Chapter 38 - Scleroma (Rhinoscleroma)

Chapter 39 - Noma (Cancrum Oris)

 

Chapter 40- Smallpox: Osteomyelitis Variolosa, Smallpox Pneumonia, and Tanapox (Monkeypox)

 

Neoplastic (Malignant) Diseases

 

Chapter 41- Burkitt's Lymphoma

 

Chapter 42 - Kaposi Sarcoma in HIV-Negative Patients

 

Chapter 43 - Geographic Variations of Malignant (Neoplastic) Diseases in the Tropics


 

 

 

 

 

 

Other Tropical Diseases

 

Chapter 44 - Geographic Variations of Nonmalignant Diseases in the Tropics

 

 

 

Chapter 45 - Toxoplasmosis

 

Chapter 46 - Fevers; Malaria; Tropical Splenomegaly

 

 

 

 

Equipment and Techniques

 

Chapter 47 - Diagnostic Imaging in Small Hospitals

 







Chapter 48 - The Ultrasonography of Tropical Diseases

 

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