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Tropical Medicine
| Tropical Medicine |
| Autore | Beeching Nick |
| Edizione | [7th ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken : , : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (410 pages) |
| Disciplina | 616.9883 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | GillGeoff |
| Collana | Lecture Notes Ser. |
| Soggetto topico |
Tropical medicine -- England
Medicine -- Ability testing |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
9781118734551
9780470658536 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Tropical Medicine Lecture Notes -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- List of abbreviations -- How to use your textbook -- About the companion website -- Part 1 A general approach to syndromes/symptom complexes -- 1 Gastrointestinal presentations -- Dysphagia/odynophagia -- Haematemesis -- Abdominal pain -- Malabsorption -- Tropical sprue -- Diarrhoea -- Pathophysiology and definitions -- History -- Other illness -- Host factors -- Examination -- Clinical syndromes of diarrhoea -- Investigations -- Management -- FURTHER READING -- 2 Respiratory presentations -- Assessment -- History -- Respiratory history -- Non-respiratory illness -- Examination in respiratory cases -- Investigation of respiratory disease -- Chest X-ray -- Sputum/respiratory secretions -- Blood cultures -- Pleural fluid -- Lung function testing -- Common presentations -- Acute breathlessness and fever in the small child -- Acute breathlessness, cough and fever in adults -- Chronic cough and malaise -- Breathlessness and wheeze -- Pleural effusion -- Respiratory disease and HIV -- FURTHER READING -- 3 Neurological presentations -- Reasons for increased incidence of neurological disorders in the tropics -- Neurological syndromes -- Pathological processes -- Rapid assessment of patient with coma in the tropics -- Classification and further investigation of patients with coma -- Indications and contraindications for lumbar puncture in suspected CNS infections (Table 3.4) -- Cerebrospinal fluid findings in CNS infections -- FURTHER READING -- 4 Febrile presentations -- Pathogenesis and symptomatic treatment of fever -- Clinical approach to the patient with fever -- History -- Examination -- Initial investigation -- Acute fevers with a negative malarial blood film -- Treatment of common causes of fever lasting < -- 2 weeks -- Common non-infectious causes of fever.
Autoimmune and connective tissue disorders -- Malignancy -- Other -- Common causes of fever lasting > -- 2 weeks -- Common clinical problems with febrile patients -- FURTHER READING -- 5 Dermatological presentations -- Skin ulcers -- Skin itching -- Creeping eruptions -- Papules -- Skin nodules -- Changes in pigmentation -- Hypopigmented macules -- Hyperpigmentation -- Urticaria -- Vesicles and bullae -- Petechial rashes -- FURTHER READING -- 6 The patient with anaemia -- Causes of anaemia -- Clinical diagnosis of anaemia -- Laboratory investigations -- Measurement of haemoglobin -- Examination of peripheral blood film -- Microcytic anaemia -- Macrocytic anaemia -- Normocytic anaemia -- Management of anaemia in the absence of alaboratory -- Blood transfusion in developing countries -- FURTHER READING -- 7 A syndromic approach to sexually transmitted infections -- The need for a public health approach -- Syndromic management -- Local adaptations -- How to use the flowcharts -- The nine elements of case management and the 'five C's' of syndromic management -- Advantages of syndromic management -- Disadvantages of syndromic management -- HIV testing in STI clinics -- FURTHER READING -- 8 Splenomegaly in the tropics -- Reasons for enlargedspleens -- Massive tropical splenomegaly -- Hyperreactive malarial splenomegaly -- Splenectomy in thetropics -- FURTHER READING -- Part 2 Major tropical infections -- 9 Malaria -- Malaria epidemiology -- Life-cycle -- Malaria immunity and other determinants of disease severity -- Clinical features -- Specific features of severe disease -- Other malaria complications -- Malaria in pregnancy -- Malaria diagnosis -- Treatment -- Drugs to treat falciparum malaria -- Artemisinin derivatives -- Quinoline derivatives -- Antifolate drugs -- Antibiotics -- Atovaquone -- Resistance to antimalarial drugs. Treatment recommendations -- Uncomplicated falciparum malaria -- Severe falciparum malaria -- Plasmodium vivax, ovale, malariae and knowlesi -- Imported malaria in travellers -- Treatment of malariain pregnancy -- Pharmacokinetic interactions between antimalarials and other drugs -- Relapse and recrudescence -- Malaria control and eradication -- Malaria prevention for travellers -- FURTHER READING -- 10 Visceral leishmaniasis -- Epidemiology -- Parasite and life-cycle -- Clinical features of visceral leishmaniasis -- Differential diagnosis of splenomegaly -- Massive spleen -- Moderate spleen -- Viscerotropic leishmaniasis -- Visceral leishmaniasis and HIV co-infection -- Investigations -- Circumstantial evidence -- Serological tests for antibody -- Parasitological evidence -- Performing a splenic aspirate -- Management -- Pentavalent antimonials (SbV) -- Amphotericin B -- Liposomal amphotericin B -- Pentamidine -- Miltefosine -- Aminosidine (paromomycin) -- Combination treatment -- Post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis (PKDL) -- Prevention -- Eliminating or treating the reservoir host -- Eliminating or avoiding the vector -- Prospects for elimination of VL from the Indian subcontinent -- FURTHER READING -- 11 Cutaneous leishmaniasis -- Clinical features -- Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) -- Diffuse cutaneous leishmaniasis (DCL) -- Leishmaniasis recidivans (LR) -- Mucosal leishmaniasis (ML) -- Cutaneous leishmaniasis and HIV coinfection -- Investigations -- Cutaneous and diffuse cutaneous leishmaniasis -- Leishmaniasis recidivans and mucosal leishmaniasis -- Leishmanin test (Montenegro test) -- Management -- Treatment of cutaneous leishmaniasis -- Local, topical and physical treatments -- Oral treatment -- Parenteral treatment -- Choosing the most appropriate treatment for cutaneous leishmaniasis -- Prevention -- FURTHER READING -- 12 Tuberculosis. Microbiology -- Epidemiology -- Magnitude of the problem -- Transmission -- Infection and immunity -- Progression to disease -- Risk factors for infection and disease -- Effect of HIV on the epidemiology of TB -- Clinical features -- Pulmonary vs. extrapulmonary disease -- Systemic symptoms -- Symptoms of pulmonary TB -- Signs of pulmonary TB -- Clinical features of selected forms of extrapulmonary TB -- Effect of HIV on clinical presentations of TB -- Investigations -- Management -- Principles of TB chemotherapy -- Deciding which treatment regimen to use -- New patients -- Previously treated patients -- Multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extremely drug-resistant (XDR) TB -- Monitoring treatment -- The question of isolation -- Adjunctive corticosteroid therapy -- Prevention and public health aspects -- BCG vaccination -- Isoniazid preventive therapy -- DOTS strategy for TB control -- The controversy around direct observation of therapy and adherence -- TB, poverty and the problem of case-detection -- HIV and TB -- The Stop TB Strategy -- Future developments -- New diagnostics -- New interventions -- FURTHER READING -- 13 HIV infection and disease in the tropics -- The viruses -- Differences between HIV-1 and HIV-2 -- HIV testing and counselling -- What test to use? -- Epidemiology -- Global seroprevalence -- Transmission -- Sexual transmission -- Risk factors -- Vertical transmission -- Transmission by infected blood -- Pathogenesis of HIV infection -- Progressive immunosuppression -- Staging HIV disease -- Natural history -- Acute seroconversion illness -- The immune activation phase -- Early HIV disease -- Late HIV disease or AIDS -- Clinical problems in adults -- Skin conditions -- Acute cough and fever -- Chronic cough with fever -- Cough and fever in children -- High fever without focus -- Chronic diarrhoea -- Oral and oesophageal candidiasis. Kaposi's sarcoma (Fig. 13.5) -- Central nervous system disease -- Eye disease -- Jaundice -- Prophylaxis -- TB chemoprophylaxis -- Preventing pneumococcal disease -- Co-trimoxazole prophylaxis -- Preventing other infections -- Childhood immunization -- Antiretroviral therapy -- Post-exposure prophylaxis after needle stick injury or rape (PEP) -- Public health approach to ART -- Commonly used ART drugs and choice of regimens in resource-poor countries -- Regimens for special populations -- The 4 Ss: when to Start, Substitute, Switch and Stop treatment -- Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome (IRIS) -- Organization of ART delivery -- Paediatric HIV infection -- Management of HIV in infants and children -- Control strategies -- Prevention of Mother-to-Child-Transmission (PMTCT) -- FURTHER READING -- Other resources -- Appendix to Chapter 13 -- 14 Onchocerciasis, filariasis and loiasis -- Introduction -- Onchocerciasis -- Life-cycle -- Epidemiology -- Clinical features -- Subcutaneous nodules (Fig. 14.5) -- Diagnosis -- Treatment -- Treatment of individual patients -- Control -- Filariasis -- Lymphatic filariasis (LF) -- Bancroftian filariasis -- Brugian filariasis -- Diagnosis and monitoring of filariasis -- Management of filariasis -- Treatment of individual patients -- Prevention of morbidity -- Loiasis -- Diagnosis and treatment -- FURTHER READING -- 15 African trypanosomiasis -- Parasites -- Life-cycle -- Disease -- Local effects -- Systemic effects -- Immune response and pathogenesis -- Clinical picture -- Trypanosoma brucei gambiense -- Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense -- Diagnosis -- Early stage disease -- Late stage disease (CNS involvement) -- Immunological diagnostic methods -- Routine laboratory findings -- Treatment -- Early Trypanosoma brucei gambiense and Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense infections -- Late stage disease. Monitoring cure. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910795834803321 |
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| Hoboken : , : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, , 2014 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Tropical Medicine
| Tropical Medicine |
| Autore | Beeching N |
| Edizione | [7th ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken : , : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (410 pages) |
| Disciplina | 616.9883 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | GillGeoffrey V |
| Collana | Lecture Notes Ser. |
| Soggetto topico |
Tropical medicine -- England
Medicine -- Ability testing |
| ISBN |
9781118734551
9780470658536 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Tropical Medicine Lecture Notes -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- List of abbreviations -- How to use your textbook -- About the companion website -- Part 1 A general approach to syndromes/symptom complexes -- 1 Gastrointestinal presentations -- Dysphagia/odynophagia -- Haematemesis -- Abdominal pain -- Malabsorption -- Tropical sprue -- Diarrhoea -- Pathophysiology and definitions -- History -- Other illness -- Host factors -- Examination -- Clinical syndromes of diarrhoea -- Investigations -- Management -- FURTHER READING -- 2 Respiratory presentations -- Assessment -- History -- Respiratory history -- Non-respiratory illness -- Examination in respiratory cases -- Investigation of respiratory disease -- Chest X-ray -- Sputum/respiratory secretions -- Blood cultures -- Pleural fluid -- Lung function testing -- Common presentations -- Acute breathlessness and fever in the small child -- Acute breathlessness, cough and fever in adults -- Chronic cough and malaise -- Breathlessness and wheeze -- Pleural effusion -- Respiratory disease and HIV -- FURTHER READING -- 3 Neurological presentations -- Reasons for increased incidence of neurological disorders in the tropics -- Neurological syndromes -- Pathological processes -- Rapid assessment of patient with coma in the tropics -- Classification and further investigation of patients with coma -- Indications and contraindications for lumbar puncture in suspected CNS infections (Table 3.4) -- Cerebrospinal fluid findings in CNS infections -- FURTHER READING -- 4 Febrile presentations -- Pathogenesis and symptomatic treatment of fever -- Clinical approach to the patient with fever -- History -- Examination -- Initial investigation -- Acute fevers with a negative malarial blood film -- Treatment of common causes of fever lasting < -- 2 weeks -- Common non-infectious causes of fever.
Autoimmune and connective tissue disorders -- Malignancy -- Other -- Common causes of fever lasting > -- 2 weeks -- Common clinical problems with febrile patients -- FURTHER READING -- 5 Dermatological presentations -- Skin ulcers -- Skin itching -- Creeping eruptions -- Papules -- Skin nodules -- Changes in pigmentation -- Hypopigmented macules -- Hyperpigmentation -- Urticaria -- Vesicles and bullae -- Petechial rashes -- FURTHER READING -- 6 The patient with anaemia -- Causes of anaemia -- Clinical diagnosis of anaemia -- Laboratory investigations -- Measurement of haemoglobin -- Examination of peripheral blood film -- Microcytic anaemia -- Macrocytic anaemia -- Normocytic anaemia -- Management of anaemia in the absence of alaboratory -- Blood transfusion in developing countries -- FURTHER READING -- 7 A syndromic approach to sexually transmitted infections -- The need for a public health approach -- Syndromic management -- Local adaptations -- How to use the flowcharts -- The nine elements of case management and the 'five C's' of syndromic management -- Advantages of syndromic management -- Disadvantages of syndromic management -- HIV testing in STI clinics -- FURTHER READING -- 8 Splenomegaly in the tropics -- Reasons for enlargedspleens -- Massive tropical splenomegaly -- Hyperreactive malarial splenomegaly -- Splenectomy in thetropics -- FURTHER READING -- Part 2 Major tropical infections -- 9 Malaria -- Malaria epidemiology -- Life-cycle -- Malaria immunity and other determinants of disease severity -- Clinical features -- Specific features of severe disease -- Other malaria complications -- Malaria in pregnancy -- Malaria diagnosis -- Treatment -- Drugs to treat falciparum malaria -- Artemisinin derivatives -- Quinoline derivatives -- Antifolate drugs -- Antibiotics -- Atovaquone -- Resistance to antimalarial drugs. Treatment recommendations -- Uncomplicated falciparum malaria -- Severe falciparum malaria -- Plasmodium vivax, ovale, malariae and knowlesi -- Imported malaria in travellers -- Treatment of malariain pregnancy -- Pharmacokinetic interactions between antimalarials and other drugs -- Relapse and recrudescence -- Malaria control and eradication -- Malaria prevention for travellers -- FURTHER READING -- 10 Visceral leishmaniasis -- Epidemiology -- Parasite and life-cycle -- Clinical features of visceral leishmaniasis -- Differential diagnosis of splenomegaly -- Massive spleen -- Moderate spleen -- Viscerotropic leishmaniasis -- Visceral leishmaniasis and HIV co-infection -- Investigations -- Circumstantial evidence -- Serological tests for antibody -- Parasitological evidence -- Performing a splenic aspirate -- Management -- Pentavalent antimonials (SbV) -- Amphotericin B -- Liposomal amphotericin B -- Pentamidine -- Miltefosine -- Aminosidine (paromomycin) -- Combination treatment -- Post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis (PKDL) -- Prevention -- Eliminating or treating the reservoir host -- Eliminating or avoiding the vector -- Prospects for elimination of VL from the Indian subcontinent -- FURTHER READING -- 11 Cutaneous leishmaniasis -- Clinical features -- Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) -- Diffuse cutaneous leishmaniasis (DCL) -- Leishmaniasis recidivans (LR) -- Mucosal leishmaniasis (ML) -- Cutaneous leishmaniasis and HIV coinfection -- Investigations -- Cutaneous and diffuse cutaneous leishmaniasis -- Leishmaniasis recidivans and mucosal leishmaniasis -- Leishmanin test (Montenegro test) -- Management -- Treatment of cutaneous leishmaniasis -- Local, topical and physical treatments -- Oral treatment -- Parenteral treatment -- Choosing the most appropriate treatment for cutaneous leishmaniasis -- Prevention -- FURTHER READING -- 12 Tuberculosis. Microbiology -- Epidemiology -- Magnitude of the problem -- Transmission -- Infection and immunity -- Progression to disease -- Risk factors for infection and disease -- Effect of HIV on the epidemiology of TB -- Clinical features -- Pulmonary vs. extrapulmonary disease -- Systemic symptoms -- Symptoms of pulmonary TB -- Signs of pulmonary TB -- Clinical features of selected forms of extrapulmonary TB -- Effect of HIV on clinical presentations of TB -- Investigations -- Management -- Principles of TB chemotherapy -- Deciding which treatment regimen to use -- New patients -- Previously treated patients -- Multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extremely drug-resistant (XDR) TB -- Monitoring treatment -- The question of isolation -- Adjunctive corticosteroid therapy -- Prevention and public health aspects -- BCG vaccination -- Isoniazid preventive therapy -- DOTS strategy for TB control -- The controversy around direct observation of therapy and adherence -- TB, poverty and the problem of case-detection -- HIV and TB -- The Stop TB Strategy -- Future developments -- New diagnostics -- New interventions -- FURTHER READING -- 13 HIV infection and disease in the tropics -- The viruses -- Differences between HIV-1 and HIV-2 -- HIV testing and counselling -- What test to use? -- Epidemiology -- Global seroprevalence -- Transmission -- Sexual transmission -- Risk factors -- Vertical transmission -- Transmission by infected blood -- Pathogenesis of HIV infection -- Progressive immunosuppression -- Staging HIV disease -- Natural history -- Acute seroconversion illness -- The immune activation phase -- Early HIV disease -- Late HIV disease or AIDS -- Clinical problems in adults -- Skin conditions -- Acute cough and fever -- Chronic cough with fever -- Cough and fever in children -- High fever without focus -- Chronic diarrhoea -- Oral and oesophageal candidiasis. Kaposi's sarcoma (Fig. 13.5) -- Central nervous system disease -- Eye disease -- Jaundice -- Prophylaxis -- TB chemoprophylaxis -- Preventing pneumococcal disease -- Co-trimoxazole prophylaxis -- Preventing other infections -- Childhood immunization -- Antiretroviral therapy -- Post-exposure prophylaxis after needle stick injury or rape (PEP) -- Public health approach to ART -- Commonly used ART drugs and choice of regimens in resource-poor countries -- Regimens for special populations -- The 4 Ss: when to Start, Substitute, Switch and Stop treatment -- Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome (IRIS) -- Organization of ART delivery -- Paediatric HIV infection -- Management of HIV in infants and children -- Control strategies -- Prevention of Mother-to-Child-Transmission (PMTCT) -- FURTHER READING -- Other resources -- Appendix to Chapter 13 -- 14 Onchocerciasis, filariasis and loiasis -- Introduction -- Onchocerciasis -- Life-cycle -- Epidemiology -- Clinical features -- Subcutaneous nodules (Fig. 14.5) -- Diagnosis -- Treatment -- Treatment of individual patients -- Control -- Filariasis -- Lymphatic filariasis (LF) -- Bancroftian filariasis -- Brugian filariasis -- Diagnosis and monitoring of filariasis -- Management of filariasis -- Treatment of individual patients -- Prevention of morbidity -- Loiasis -- Diagnosis and treatment -- FURTHER READING -- 15 African trypanosomiasis -- Parasites -- Life-cycle -- Disease -- Local effects -- Systemic effects -- Immune response and pathogenesis -- Clinical picture -- Trypanosoma brucei gambiense -- Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense -- Diagnosis -- Early stage disease -- Late stage disease (CNS involvement) -- Immunological diagnostic methods -- Routine laboratory findings -- Treatment -- Early Trypanosoma brucei gambiense and Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense infections -- Late stage disease. Monitoring cure. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910966835803321 |
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Beeching N
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| Hoboken : , : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, , 2014 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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