The problems of caring for critically ill patients in the Tropics and Sub-Tropics are discussed in this manual, the problems ranging from coma, to infections. Intensive care techniques in the tropics are also discussed, emphasizing the concentration of available resources.

Increased global travel has changed the way we think about disease distribution. Diseases once considered of localised interest can be disseminated more readily than ever due to the increased speed of international travel. This visual guide helps in diagnosing these diseases. It includes more than 1,200 images.

The new edition of this unique handbook continues to provide an accessible and comprehensive, signs-and-symptoms based source of information on medical problems commonly seen in the tropics. A practical guide to diagnosis and management for medical practitioners and students, it can fit in the coat pocket and be used easily at the bedside.

Offers an introduction to tropical medicine. This book includes a chapter on syndromes of undernutrition. It is suitable for postgraduate doctors attending tropical medicine courses, as well as medical students taking a tropical medicine elective period.

Professor Farley describes how governments and organizations faced one particular tropical disease, bilharzia or schistosomiasis.

Reviews the scientific background to an understanding of tropical infections, their pathogenesis, pathophysiology, treatment and prevention. This is a scientific companion to tropical infectious diseases that sets various standards of completeness and scientific integrity. It is beneficial to specialists and non-specialists alike.

Discusses various aspects of travel medicine - from immunizations and pre-travel advice for adults and children to the information on cruise travel, bird flu and SARS to the essentials of post-travel screening. This title shows the 'best practices' and offers a resource of practical guidance that you can use daily.

Professor Farley describes how governments and organizations faced one particular tropical disease, bilharzia or schistosomiasis.

A guide to preventing, evaluating, and managing diseases that can be acquired in tropical environments and foreign countries. It offers information from pre-travel advice and immunizations to the diagnosis and treatment of a full range of travel-related illnesses.

An introduction to an important weapon in the fight against disease in tropical countries. The text is mainly concerned with the health engineering methods for improving the health of the poorest sections of the world's population - those most at risk from tropical diseases.

This book leads the reader through decades of research in epidemiology, immunology and parasitology and will fascinate all students, scientists and policy-makers in infectious disease and women's health.

From the difficult to diagnose to the difficult to treat, be prepared for whatever your patients bring back. This title provides you with the coverage on emerging and re-emerging diseases from around the world, such as multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis and malaria, and the avian flu.

This manual supports a system for training health workers and laboratory staff to become proficient in the microscopic diagnosis of malaria. The system deals with each step of the diagnostic routine in the correct sequence, encouraging trainees to build skills and confidence.

Covering major tropical diseases that present health risk to travelers, this book summarizes the knowledge of post travel presentations in the otherwise non-immune and non-endemic population and will aid clinicians to evaluate travelers' symptoms. It offers a syndromic approach to patients with common travel complaints such as diarrhea, and fever.

Concentrates on common medical conditions in the Tropics occuring in adults or adults and children, rather than children alone. The sections on HIV and tuberculosis in this revised edition have been completely rewritten.

Designed primarily as a textbook for graduate and postgraduate courses in Medical, Public Health and Veterinary Entomology. Giving emphasis on disease, this title includes general discussions of epidemiology, transmission, disease control, vector control and disease surveillance.

Samuel Taylor Darling (1872-1925), one of the world's leading experts in tropical diseases in the early twentieth century, investigated malaria, hookworm, amebiasis and other tropical diseases in Panama, the Far East, South Africa, Brazil and the southern United States. He is also credited with discovering histoplasmosis. This is his biography.