Tropical medicine notebook

Content: Cover
 Preface
 Acknowledgements
 Contents
 Abbreviations
 SECTION 1 Bacterial infections of relevance to the tropics
 1 Summary of medically important bacteria
 CLASSIFICATION OF BACTERIA
 2 Infections caused by Gram-positive bacteria
 ANTHRAX Bacillus anthracis
 CLOSTRIDIA
 BOTULISM Clostridium botulinum
 TETANUS Clostridium tetani
 DIPHTHERIA Corynebacterium diphtheriae
 CLASSIFICATION OF STREPTOCOCCI
 PNEUMOCOCCUS Streptococcus pneumoniae
 GROUP A STREPTOCOCCUS Streptococcus pyogenes
 3 Infections caused by mycobacteria
 TUBERCULOSIS Mycobacterium tuberculosis LEPROSY Mycobacterium leprae4 Infections caused by Gram-negative bacteria
 ESCHERICIA COLI E. coli
 SHIGELLA e.g. Shigella dysenteriae
 TYPHOID/PARATYPHOID Salmonella typhi/paratyphi
 NON-TYPHOIDAL SALMONELLAE
 MELIOID Burkholderia pseudomallei
 BRUCELLOSIS Brucella melitensis, B. abortus, B. suis
 PLAGUE Yersinia pestis
 MENINGOCOCCUS Neisseria meningitidis
 VIBRIO SPECIES
 CHOLERA Vibrio cholerae
 CAMPYLOBACTER C. jejuni and others
 5 Infections caused by spirochaetes
 CLASSIFICATION OF SPIROCHAETES
 SYPHILIS Treponema pallidum subspecies pallidum
 NON-VENEREAL TREPONEMES NON-VENEREAL TREPONEMES: BEJEL Treponema pallidum subspecies endemicumNON-VENEREAL TREPONEMES: PINTA Treponema pallidum subspecies carateum
 NON-VENEREAL TREPONEMES: YAWS Treponema pallidum subspecies pertenue
 RELAPSING FEVER Borrelia species
 LEPTOSPIROSIS Leptospira species
 6 Infections caused by obligate intracellular bacteria
 CLASSIFICATION OF INTRACELLULAR BACTERIA
 RICKETTSIAE: GENERAL PRINCIPLES
 RICKETTSIAE: SPECIFIC EXAMPLES
 TRACHOMA Chlamydia trachomatis
 Q FEVER Coxiella burnetii
 BARTONELLOSIS Bartonella species
 SECTION 2 Viral infections of relevance to the tropics 7 Summary of medically important virusesCLASSIFICATION OF VIRUSES
 8 Infections caused by DNA viruses
 HEPATITIS B VIRUS HBV, hepadnavirus
 SMALLPOX Variola
 9 Infections caused by RNA viruses
 PARAMYXOVIRUSES
 HENDRA AND NIPAH VIRUSES
 MEASLES
 SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS (SARS)
 MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS (MERS)
 PICORNAVIRUSES
 POLIOMYELITIS 'Polio'
 HEPATITIS A VIRUS (HAV)
 ROTAVIRUS
 HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS (HIV)
 HUMAN T-CELL LYMPHOTROPIC VIRUS (HTLV)
 HEPATITIS C VIRUS (HCV)
 HEPATITIS E VIRUS (HEV)
 RABIES
 EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE (EVD) MARBURG VIRUSLASSA FEVER
 LYMPHOCYTIC CHORIOMENINGITIS VIRUS (LCMV)
 ARBOVIRUSES ('ARTHROPOD-BORNE VIRUSES'):SUMMARY
 JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS (JE)
 WEST NILE FEVER
 YELLOW FEVER
 DENGUE FEVER
 ZIKA VIRUS
 EQUINE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUSES
 CHIKUNGUNYA
 O'NYONG-NYONG
 BUNYAVIRUSES
 RIFT VALLEY FEVER AND CRIMEAN-CONGO HAEMORRHAGIC FEVER
 HANTAVIRUS
 SECTION 3 Fungal infections of relevance to the tropics
 10 Summary of fungal infections
 CLASSIFICATION OF FUNGI
 11 Fungal infections
 CRYPTOCOCCOSIS Cryptococcus neoformans
 DIMORPHIC FUNGI: SUMMARY
 HISTOPLASMOSIS Histoplasma capsulatum