Newly organized and featuring new editors and hundreds of new images, Peters’ Atlas of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, Seventh Edition, brings you up to date with today’s greatest challenges in tropical medicine. Increased global travel, climate change, human conflict, short-term/large-scale human assemblies, potent therapeutic agents, drug resistance, and vaccine misinformation have contributed to a greatly changed landscape in this complex field. This practical, highly visual guide provides more than 1,300 stunning illustrations, making it an authoritative parasitology resource for accurate diagnosis of complex diseases.
Key Features
Contains hundreds of new images, including more than 50 completely revised life cycles and epidemiological maps.
Provides current information on Zika virus, chikungunya virus, Ebola virus, SARS and MERS-CoV caused by enzootic corona virus, tuberculosis, ceftriaxone-resistant gonorrhea, malaria, and much more.
Features a completely updated and significantly streamlined text, now organized not only by primary mode of disease transmission, but extended to define disease more strictly according to the route of acquisition – a logical change that reflects the principles applied to control measures for most infections.
Presents the knowledge and expertise of new editors Drs. Laura Nabarro, Stephen Morris-Jones, and David A. J. Moore.
Author Information
By Laura Nabarro, MBBS BSc MRCP DTM&H FRCPath, Specialist Registrar in Infectious Disease and Microbiology, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London; Stephen Morris-Jones and David Moore
Preface
Dedication
1. Arthropod-borne diseases
Mosquito Vectors
The Arboviruses: Arthropod-Borne Viral Infections
Arthropod-Borne Bacterial Infections
The Relapsing Fevers
Arthropod-Borne Parasitic Infections
Nematodes: Filarial Diseases
2. Infections acquired percutaneously
Soil
Water
Sex
Bacterial
Other Cutaneous or Mucous Membrane Contact
3. Infections acquired through the gastrointestinal tract
Viral Infections
Bacterial Infections
Protozoal Infections
Fungi
Helminth Infections
Parasitic Crustaceans
4. Infections acquired through airborne transmission
Viral Infections
Bacterial Infections
Fungal Infections
5. Ectoparasites
Mites
Lice
Bed Bugs
Fleas
Myiasis
6. Bites, stings, venoms, toxins
Marine Invertebrates
Marine Vertebrates
Terrestrial Invertebrates
Terrestrial Vertebrates
Plants
7. Nutrition
Malnutrition
Vitamin and Mineral Deficiencies
Toxin Ingestion
8. Non-communicable disease
9. Diseases of unusual or uncertain aetiology
Index
"This seventh edition, last published in 2007, offers current information on tropical diseases with hundreds of new illustrations for reference."
-Marvin J. Bittner, MD, MSc, FACP, FIDSA, FSHEA (Creighton University Medical Center) Doody's Review Service
