Clinical Cases in Tropical Medicine

<p>Using an easily accessible, highly templated format, <i>Clinical Cases in Tropical Medicine, 2nd Edition</i>, provides <b>more than 100 realistic scenarios </b>for tropical infectious diseases. <b>Full-color photographs and maps, a convenient question-and-answer presentation, and succinct summary boxes</b> help you identify and understand the tropical diseases you’re likely to encounter. This up-to-date 2nd Edition is an <b>excellent resource and study tool</b> for infectious diseases fellows, doctors preparing for exams in tropical medicine, primary care doctors with patients who are global travelers, and global health nurses and practitioners alike. </p><ul> <li>Offers realistic scenarios for encountering patients in <b>rural, resource-poor settings</b>, presenting cases as "unknowns," just as in a real clinic or emergency situation.</li> <p> <li>Covers <b>newly emerging diseases</b> such as Zika virus, severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS), and knowlesi malaria. </li> <p> <li>Features <b>topics in migrant medicine</b> of particular importance to clinicians in non-tropical countries, including louse-borne-relapsing fever, spinal brucellosis, and hyperreactive malarial splenomegaly.</li> <p> <li>Includes <b>"classic" tropical diseases</b> such as African trypanosomiasis, chagas, leprosy, and yaws.</li> <p> <li>Reflects the use of <b>novel diagnostics</b> used in resource-poor settings, as well as <b>developing drug resistance</b> in relevant cases.</li> <p> <p> <li>Serves as a companion to <i>Manson's Tropical Diseases</i>, with a reading list at the end of each case referring to the corresponding chapter in the larger text. <b>Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. </b>Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.</li></ul>