"Current Topics in Tropical Medicine" ed. by Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales

This book presents an updated information on multiple diseases and conditions of interest in the field. It Includes pathologies caused by bacteria, viruses and parasites, protozoans and helminths, as well as tropical non-infectious conditions.

With participation of authors from various countries, many from proper endemic areas, this book has a wide geographical perspective.
Many of them are considering not only epidemiological aspects, but also diagnostic, therapeutical, preventive, social, genetic, bioinformatic and molecular ones.


Contents
Preface
Part 1 Tropical Diseases Due to Bacteria and Viruses
1 Rickettsiosis as Threat for the Traveller
2 Human Ehrlichioses and Rickettsioses in Cameroon
3 Leptospirosis: Epidemiologic Factors, Pathophysiological and Immunopathogenic
4 Bartonella Infections in Rodents and Bats in Tropics
5 Social Networking in Tuberculosis: Experience in Colombia
6 Molecular Characterization of Dengue Virus Circulating in Manaus, the Capital City of the State of Amazonas, Brazil
7 Genetic Diversity of Dengue Virus and Associated Clinical Severity During Periodic Epidemics in South East Asia
8 Lassa Fever in the Tropics
9 The Re-Emergence of an Old Disease: Chikungunya Fever
Part 2 Tropical Diseases Due to Protozoa and Helminths
10 Malaria Chemoprophylaxis for the International Traveler, Current Options and Future Possibilities
11 Effects of Irrigated Rice Fields and Seasonality on Plasmodium Transmission in West Africa, Particularly in Central CA 'te d'Ivoire
12 Toxoplasmosis: Advances and Vaccine Perspectives
13 Screening of the Prevalence of Antibodies to the Tick Hyalomma lusitanicum in a Province of Northern Spain
14 Amoebiasis in the Tropics: Epidemiology and Pathogenesis
15 Retrospective Analysis of Leishmaniasis in Central Tunisia: An Update on Emerging Epidemiological Trends
16 Current Advances in Computational Strategies for Drug Discovery in Leishmaniasis
17 Advances in Serological Diagnosis of Chagas1 Disease by Using Recombinant Proteins
18 Echinococcosis/Hydatidosis
19 A Programme to Control Taeniosis-Cysticercolsis (Taenia solium) in Mexico
20 Antischistosoma I Natural Compounds: Present Challenges for New Drug Screens
21 Control of Schistosomiasis and Soil-Transmitted Helminthiasis in Sub-Saharan Africa: Challenges and Prospects
22 Hyper infection Syndrome in Strongyloidiasis
23 Molecular Diagnosis and Monitoring of Benz imidazole Susceptibility of Human Fi lari ids
24 Lymphatic Filariasis Transmission and Control: A Mathematical Modelling Approach
Part 3 Other Tropical Infectious and Non-Infectious Conditions
25 Novel Molecular Diagnostic Platform for Tropical Infectious Diseases
26 Sexually Transmitted Infections in the Tropics
27 Re-Emergence of Malaria and Dengue in Europe
28 Neonatal Thermoneutrality in a Tropical Climate
29 Associations Between Nutritional Indicators Using Geoadditive Latent Variable Models with Application to Child Malnutrition in Nigeria

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