An Overview of Tropical Diseases

Chapter 1   Emerging Public Health Issues in Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis by Adeola Orogade
    Chapter 2   Mitochondria of Malaria Parasites as a Drug Target by Kenji Hikosaka, Keisuke Komatsuya, Shigeo Suzuki and Kiyoshi Kita
    Chapter 3   Recent Advances in Antimalarial Drug Discovery — Challenges and Opportunities by Chiranjeev Sharma and Satish Kumar Awasthi
    Chapter 4   Advances on Dientamoeba fragilis Infections by Ali ElBakri, Ahmed Al-Qahtani and Amidou Samie
    Chapter 5   Speciation in the Leishmania guyanensis Vector Lutzomyia umbratilis (Diptera: Psychodidae) from Northern Brazil — Implications for Epidemiology and Vector Control by Vera Margarete Scarpassa and Ronildo Baiatone Alencar
    Chapter 6   Dirofilariosis and Leishmaniasis in the Northern Region of Serbia by Sara Savic, Branka Vidic, Zivoslav Grgic, Tamas Petrovic, Alekasandar Potkonjak, Aleksandra Cupina, Slavica Vaselek and Dusan Petric
    Chapter 7   Schistosomiasis – Updating Technologies and Diagnostic Approaches in Surveillance Strategies and Clinical Management by Marta Guimarães Cavalcanti and José Mauro Peralta
    Chapter 8   Praziquantel and Arachidonic Acid Combination — An Innovative Approach to the Treatment of Schistosomiasis by Hatem Tallima, Kevin Hadley and Rashika El Ridi
    Chapter 9   The Role of Chiggers as Human Pathogens by Paula Santibáñez, Ana M. Palomar, Aránzazu Portillo, Sonia Santibáñez and José A. Oteo