Synopsis
The second edition of Tropical Infections Diseases: Principles, Pathogens & Practice (TIDPPP) achieves an unprecedented level of detail and depth in reviewing the scientific background to the current understanding of tropical infections, their pathogenesis, pathophysiology, treatment and prevention. TIDPPP is a scientific companion to tropical infectious diseases that sets new standards of completeness and scientific integrity.
Hailed in JAMA as a superb scientific reference that "should become a classic" the second edition continues to present cutting-edge clinical management and inescapably comprehensible life cycle diagrams. The lucid text is easily navigable for access to clinically relevant information by strict adherence to a common sequence of presentation throughout the text.
TIDPPP is of enormous use and benefit to the specialist and non-specialist alike.
- Features new chapters on Tropical Infectious Diseases Spreading Beyond Their Endemic Niches * Delusional Parasitosis * Obstetric Infections in the Tropics * and Barriers to Health.
- Offers a bonus CD-ROM that contains the full text of the New Edition plus an image bank.
- Provides a thorough overview of the latest developments in immunology, pathogenesis, genetics of virulence, and new molecular approaches to diagnosis and control.
- Integrates the expertise of many new contributing authors.
- Includes many new life-cycle diagrams … expanded clinical information on malaria
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About the Authors
Richard L Guerrant MD
Thomas H Hunter Professor of International Medicine
Director, Center for Global Health, Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health
University of Virginia School of Medicine
Charlottesville
VA
USA
David H Walker MD
Carmage and Martha Walls Distinguished University Chair in Tropical Diseases
Director, WHO Collaborating Center for Tropical Diseases
Professor and Chair,
Department of Pathology
University of Texas Medical Branch
Galveston
TX
USA
Peter F. Weller is Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Co-Chief, Infectious Disease Division; Vice Chair of Research in the Department of Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.
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