Manson's Tropical Diseases E-Book: Edition 24

Jeremy Farrar · Peter J Hotez · Thomas Junghanss · Gagandeep Kang · David Lalloo · Nicholas J. White · Patricia J. Garcia

Jul 2023 · Elsevier Health Sciences

Ebook

1384

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Eligible

About this ebook

For 125 years, physicians have relied on Manson's Tropical Diseases for a comprehensive clinical overview of this complex and fast-changing field. The fully revised 24th Edition, Dr. Jeremy Farrar, along with an internationally recognized editorial team, global contributors, and expert authors, delivers the latest coverage on parasitic and infectious diseases from around the world. From the difficult to diagnose to the difficult to treat, this highly readable, award-winning reference prepares you to effectively handle whatever your patients may have contracted.

Covers all of tropical medicine in a comprehensive manner, general medicine in the tropics, and non-clinical issues regarding public health and ethics.
Serves as an indispensable resource for physicians who treat patients with tropical diseases and/or will be travelling to the tropics, or who are teaching others in this area.
Contains a new section on 21st Century Drivers of Tropical Medicine, with chapters covering Poverty and Inequality, Public Health in Settings of Conflict and Political Instability, Climate Change, and Medical Product Quality and Public Health.
Includes all-new chapters on Surgery in the Topics, Yellow Fever, Systemic Mycoses, and COVID-19.
Covers key topics such as drug resistance; emerging and reemerging infections such as Zika, Ebola, and Chikungunya; novel diagnostics such as PCR-based methods; point-of care-tests such as ultrasound; public health in settings of conflict and political instability; and much more.
Differentiates approaches for resource-rich and resource-poor areas.
Includes reader-friendly features such as highlighted key information, convenient boxes and tables, extensive cross-referencing, and clinical management diagrams.

About the author

Jeremy Farrar, FRCP, FMedAcSci, DPhil, OBE Wellcome Trust (From 5 May 2023 Chief Scientist World Health Organization)

Peter J. Hotez, MD, PhD Professor, Pediatrics and Molecular & Virology and Microbiology and Dean, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine; Texas Children’s Hospital Endowed Chair of Tropical Pediatrics, The Texas Medical Center, Houston, TX, USA

Thomas Junghanss, MD, MScPHDC (Lon) Internal Medicine, subspecialties Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Professor (apl) Section Clinical Tropical Medicine University Hospital Heidelberg Heidelberg, Germany

Gagandeep Kang - From 1 May 2023, Director-EDGE, Global Health, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

David Lalloo, MBBS, MD, FRCP, FFTM, RCPS(Glasg) Director and Professor of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK

Nicholas J. White, OBE, MD, DSc, FRCP, F Med Sci, FRS Professor of Tropical Medicine, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand; Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

Patricia J. Garcia, MD, MPH, PhD Professor, School of Public Health, Cayetano Heredia University, Lima, Peru Adjunct Professor, Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

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