Using an easily accessible, highly templated format, Clinical Cases in Tropical Medicine, 2nd Edition, provides more than 100 realistic scenarios for tropical infectious diseases. Full-color photographs and maps, a convenient question-and-answer presentation, and succinct summary boxes help you identify and understand the tropical diseases you’re likely to encounter. This up-to-date 2nd Edition is an excellent resource and study tool 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.
Table of Contents:
A 20-Year-Old Woman from Sudan With Fever, Haemorrhage and Shock
A 7-Year-Old Girl from Peru With a Chronic Skin Ulcer
A 26-Year-Old Woman from Malawi with Headache, Confusion and Unilateral Ptosis
A 4-Year-Old Girl from Uganda in a Coma
A 4-Year-Old Boy from Laos With a Lesion of the Lip and Cheek
A 36-Year-Old Male Traveller Returning from Botswana With a Creeping Eruption
A 28-Year-Old Male Fisherman from Malawi With Shortness of Breath
A 26-Year-Old Female Traveller Returning from Ghana With a Boil on the Leg
A 52-Year-Old Man from Vietnam With Evolving Shock
A 55-Year-Old Indigenous Woman from Australia With a Widespread Exfoliating Rash and Sepsis
A 45-Year-Old Male Security Guard from Malawi With Difficulties in Walking and Back Pain
A 29-Year-Old Man from The Gambia With Genital Ulceration
A 16-Year-Old Girl from Malawi With Fever and Abdominal Pain
A 22-Year-Old Woman from Bangladesh With Profuse Watery Diarrhoea
A 3-Year-Old Boy from Laos With Right Suppurative Parotitis
A 25-Year-Old Female School Teacher from Malawi With Abrupt Onset of Fever and Confusion
A 34-Year-Old Man from Thailand With Fever and a Papular Rash
A 56-Year-Old Man Returning from a Trip to Thailand With Eosinophilia
A 40-Year-Old Man from Togo With Subcutaneous Nodules and Corneal Opacities
A 43-Year-Old Male Traveller Returning from Mozambique With Fever and Eosinophilia
A 35-Year-Old American Man With Fatigue and a Neck Lesion
32-Year-Old Woman from Nigeria With Jaundice and Confusion
A 31-Year-Old HIV-Positive Business Traveller With Cough, Shortness of Breath and Night Sweats
A 14-Year-Old Boy from Rural Tanzania With Difficulty in Walking
A 72-Year-Old Male Farmer from Laos With Extensive Skin Lesions on the Lower Leg
A 14-Year-Old Boy from Malawi Who Has Been Bitten by a Snake
A 16-Year-Old Boy from Sri Lanka With Fever Jaundice and Renal Failure
A 67-Year-Old Female Expatriate Living in Cameroon With Eosinophilia and Pericarditis
A 35-Year-Old Woman from Malawi With Fever and Severe Anaemia
A 12-Year-Old Boy from Rural Kenya With Painful Eyes
A 6-Year-Old Boy from Malawi With Fever, Cough and Impaired Consciousness
A 44-Year-Old Male Farmer from Laos With Diabetes and a Back Abscess
A 53-Year-Old Man from Malawi With a Chronic Cough
A 35-Year-Old Male Farmer from Peru With a Chronic Ulcer and Multiple Nodular Lesions on the Arm
A 32-Year-Old Woman from Malawi With Headache and Blurred Vision
A 23-Year-Old Farmer from Myanmar With Unilateral Scrotal Swelling
A 29-Year-Old Woman from Malawi With Confusion, Diarrhoea and a Skin Rash
A 24-Year-Old Female Globetrotter With Strange Sensations in the Right Side of Her Body
A 30-Year-Old Male Chinese Trader With Fever in Laos
A 62-Year-Old Woman from Ethiopia With Difficulty Eating
A 7-Year-Old Girl from West Africa With Two Skin Ulcers and a Contracture of Her Right Wrist
A 41-Year-Old Male Traveller Returning from Australia With Itchy Eruptions on His Thighs
A 35-Year-Old Malawian Woman With a Painful Ocular Tumour
A 7-Year-Old Girl from South Sudan With Undulating Fever
A 2-Month-Old Girl from Laos With Dyspnoea, Cyanosis and Irritability
A 45-Year-Old Man from Sri Lanka With Fever and Right Hypochondrial Pain
A 32-Year-Old Man from Malawi With a Painfully Swollen Neck
A 31-Year-Old Woman from Tanzania With Acute Flaccid Paraplegia
A 33-Year-Old Male Traveller to India With Diarrhoea and Flatulence for Two Weeks
A 24-Year-Old Man of Turkish Origin With Jaundice and Cystic Liver Lesions
A 34-Year-Old HIV-Positive Woman from Malawi With Slowly Progressive Half-Sided Weakness
A 56-Year-Old Man from Peru With Prolonged Fever and Severe Anaemia
A 24-Year-Old Woman from Uganda With Fever and Shock
A 52-Year-Old Male Safari Tourist Returning from South Africa With Fever and a Skin Lesion
A 40-Year-Old Male Farmer from Peru With Chronic Cough and Weight Loss
A 21-Year-Old Pregnant Woman from The Gambia With a Rash
A 37-Year-Old Woman from Malawi With Haematemesis
A 25-Year-Old Woman from Egypt With Severe Chronic Diarrhoea and Malabsorption
A 24-Year-Old Man from Malawi With Skin Lesions and Breathlessness
A 6-Year-Old Boy from Malawi With Proptosis of the Left Eye
A 48-Year-Old Woman from Thailand With Fever and Disseminated Cutaneous Abscesses
A 28-Year-Old Man from Ghana With a Chronic Ulcer on His Ankle
A 38-Year-Old European Expatriate Living in Malawi With Difficulty Passing Urine
A 40-Year-Old Woman from Thailand and Her Brother-in-Law With Severe Headache
A 4-Year-Old Girl from Bolivia With a Dark Nodule on Her Toe
A 32-Year-Old Man from Malawi With Pain in the Right Upper Abdomen and a Feeling of Faintness
A 24-Year-Old Woman from the Peruvian Andes With Fever and Abdominal Pain
A 31-Year-Old Woman from Malawi With a Generalized Mucocutaneous Rash
A 22-Year-Old Male Farmer from Rural Ethiopia With Difficulty Walking
A 58-Year-Old Woman from Sri Lanka With Fever, Deafness and Confusion
A 71-Year-Old Man from Japan With Eosinophilia and a Nodular Lesion in the Lung
A 4-Year-Old Boy from Mozambique With Severe Oedema and Skin Lesions
A 21-Year-Old Male Migrant from Rural Mali With Massive Splenomegaly
A 28-Year-Old Woman from Sierra Leone With Fever and Conjunctivitis
A 25-Year-Old Woman from Zambia With a New-Onset Seizure
A 55-Year Old Woman from Turkey With Fever of Unknown Origin
A 51-Year-Old Female Traveller Returning from Central America With Conjunctivitis, Rash and Peripheral Oedema
A 42-Year-Old British Man Living in Malawi With Anaphylactic Shock
A 34-Year-Old Male Immigrant from Peru With Chronic Diarrhoea and Severe Weight Loss
A 62-Year-Old Man from Thailand With a Liver Mass
A 33-Year-Old Refugee from Afghanistan With Recurrent Fever and Back Pain
A 31-Year-Old Man from Guatemala With Acute Weakness and Numbness of the Leg
An 18-Year-Old Man from India With a Pale Patch on His Right Upper Limb
A 64-Year-Old Japanese Man With Generalized Tonic-Clonic Seizures
A 55-Year-Old Female Pig Farmer from Vietnam With Fever and Impaired Consciousness
A 14-Year-Old Girl in the Solomon Islands With a Non-Healing Leg Ulcer
A 27-Year-Old Male Traveller Returning from the Peruvian Amazon With Persisting Polyarthralgias
A 74-Year-Old Man from Japan With Fever, Nausea and Drowsiness
A 30-Year-Old Woman from Bolivia With Exertional Dyspnoea
A 55-Year-Old Couple Both Returning from Chile and Argentina With Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
A 20-Year-Old Male from India With Fever and Quadriparesis
A 42-Year-Old Traveller Returning from Thailand With Fever and Thrombocytopenia
A 35-Year-Old Male Logger from Peru With Fever, Jaundice and Bleeding
A 20-Year-Old Woman from the Democratic Republic of the Congo With Fever and a Vesiculopustular Skin Rash
A 42-Year-Old Male Refugee from the Democratic Republic of the Congo With Progressive Depression
A 19-Year-Old Boy from India With Drooping, Diplopia and Dysphagia
An 87-Year-Old Japanese Man With a Serpiginous Erythema on the Right Thigh
A 17-Year-Old Boy from South India With a Fever and a Reduced Level of Consciousness
A 43-Year-Old Male Traveller Returning from the Australian Outback with Fever, Joint Pains and a Rash
A 25-Year-Old Man from Ethiopia With a Nodular Rash
A 46-Year-Old Male Traveller with Chronic Cough After a Trip to South America
A 16-Year-Old Male Refugee from Somalia With High Fever and Slurred Speech
A 43-Year-Old Man from Peru With a Chronic Fistulating Foot Lesion
