Neglected Tropical Diseases - Latin America and the Caribbean

Neglected Tropical Diseases - Latin America and the Caribbean
ISBN-10
3709114225
ISBN-13
9783709114223
Category
Medical
Pages
243
Language
English
Published
2015-05-08
Publisher
Springer
Authors
Carlos Franco-Paredes, José Ignacio Santos-Preciado

Description

This book addresses the major neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) – based on their prevalence and the years of healthy life lost to disability – in Latin American and Caribbean countries. These include Chagas disease, leishmaniasis, hookworm infection, and other soil-transmitted helminth infections, followed by dengue, schistosomiasis, leishmaniasis, leprosy, cysticercosis, bartonellosis, Plasmodium vivax malaria, and onchocerciasis. Topics like disease burden, major manifestations and approaches to the control and elimination of NTDs in Latin America and the Caribbean are discussed in detail. As such, the book will be of general interest to basic researchers and clinicians engaged in infectious disease, tropical medicine, and parasitology, and a must-have for scientists specialized in the characteristics of this region of the world.​

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