Diseases of the tropics

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CONTENTS PREFACE Part One. PROTOZOA OF THE BLOOD AND TISSUES History and Distribution of Malaria Malaria Parasites of Man Epidemiology of Malaria George C. Shattuck, Henry S. Fuller and Joseph C. Bequaert Control of Malaria Pathology, Symptoms and Laboratory Data Diagnosis and Prognosis of Malaria Treatment of Malaria Blackwater Fever African Trypanosomiasis South American Trypanosomiasis Visceral Leishmaniasis Old World Cutaneous Leishmaniasis Leishmaniasis in the Americas Part Two. SPIROCHAETOSES The Relapsing Fevers Sodoku The Leptospiroses Yaws Pinta and Bejel Part Three. RICKETTSIAL DISEASES Epidemic Typhus and Endemic Typhus American Spotted Fever Tick-Transmitted Rickettsioses of the Eastern Hemisphere Scrub Typhus Part Four. BACTERIAL DISEASES Plague Cholera Shigellosis Part Five. VIRAL DISEASES Yellow Fever Dengue Phlebotomus Fever, Rift Valley Fever and other Dengue-like Fevers Lymphogranuloma Venereum Psittacosis and Encephalitides of the Tropics Part Six. HELMINTHIC DISEASES Introduction to Helminthic Diseases Donald L. Augustine The Schistosomiases Flukes Cestode Infections Bancroftian Filariasis and Brug's Filariasis Onchocerciasis Filarial Infections Ankylostomiasis Minor Nematodes Cosmopolitan Nematodes Part Seven. INTESTINAL PROTOZOA Intestinal Amebiasis Diagnosis and Treatment of Amebiasis Intestinal Protozoa of Man Part Eight. THE MYCOSES Systemic Mycoses Dermatomycoses Part Nine. MISCELLANEOUS DISEASES Tropical Ulcer, Desert Sore and Cutaneous Diphtheria Sickle Cell Anemia, Onyalai and Ainhum Part Ten. DISORDERS OF NUTRITION Beriberi Pellagra Ariboflavinosis Scurvy Vitamin A Deficiency Kwashiorkor Miscellaneous Deficiency Syndromes Sprue Part Eleven. TROPICAL CLIMATES AND HEALTH Tropical Climates, Heat and Health Acute Effects of Heat Part Twelve. NOXIOUS ANIMALS, PLANTS AND ARTHROPODS Venomous Reptiles of the Tropics Emmett R. Dunn Various Noxious Animals Lathyrism, Favism and Noxious Plants Various Noxious Arthropods INDEX

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