Manson S Tropical Diseases
| Series: | |
| Publisher: | Elsevier |
| Subject: | Tropical medicine |
| Authors: | Gordon Charles Cook |
| Pages: | 1847 pages |
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| ISBN: | 9780702027093 |
| Call No: | RC 961.5 M28 2003 |
This text covers every aspect of tropical diseases, with a practical clinical focus. The 87 contributions discuss underlying factors in tropical medicine, symptoms and signs, system-oriented disease, related specialties in the tropics, environmental/genetic disorders, ectoparasites, and viral, rickettsia, bacterial, mycotic, protozoan, and helminthic infections. New material includes ethics, transfusion and genetics, as well as newly discovered viral agents and therapeutic agents. The book also contains new appendices on tropical drug therapies, key aspects of tropical nursing, and sources of information.