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A Synopsis of Infectious and Tropical Diseases
About This Book
A Synopsis of Infectious and Tropical Diseases provides a summary of information on the diagnosis and management of infectious and tropical diseases. It contains essential information required by general practitioners, specialists, medical students and graduates preparing for higher examinations, the nursing profession, and health workers in the proper management of infective and tropical diseases. This book is organized into nine chapters that describe the signs and symptoms, clinical forms and manifestations, incubation period, stages of invasion, mode of transmission, epidemiology, and treatment of different tropical and infectious diseases such as those caused by viruses, protozoans, and metazoan parasites. These diseases include herpesvirus infections, blackwater fever, and trematode or fluke infections. This book will be of interest to travelers and people in the medical profession.
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- Front Cover
- A Synopsis of Infectious and Tropical Diseases
- Copyright Page
- Preface to the Third Edition
- Preface to the First Edition
- Table of Contents
- Section I: Diseases due to Viruses
- Section II: Diseases Due to Rickettsia and Chlamydia
- Section III: Diseases ø due to Spirochaetes
- Section IV: Bacterial Diseases
- Section V: Diseases due to Mycoses and Higher Bacteria
- Section VI: Protozoal Infections
- Section VII: Diseases due to Metazoan Parasites
- Section VIII: Nutritional and Haematological Disorders
- Section IX: Miscellaneous
- Index