Principles of Medicine in Africa

Preface; Part I. Health and Disease: 1. People and their environment; 2. Food and nutrition; 3. Refugees and disasters; 4. Managing a health service; Part II. Mother and Child Health: 5. The pregnant patient; 6. Neonatal care; 7. The integrated management of childhood illness (IMCI); 8. Severe acute malnutrition in childhood; 9. Diarrhoea; 10. Pneumonia and acute lower respiratory tract infections in children; 11. Measles; 12. Pertussis; Part III. Infection: General Principles: 13. The immune response to infection; 14. Approach to the febrile patient; 15. The control and prevention of infection; Part IV. Major Common Infections: 16. Malaria; 17. HIV/AIDS; 18. Tuberculosis; 19. Pneumonia in adults; 20. Meningitis; 21. Sexually transmitted infections; Part V. Bacterial Infections: 22. Typhoid, paratyphoid and non-typhoid salmonella infections; 23. Streptococcus pyogenes and Staphylococcus aureus; 24. Rickettsial infections; 25. Brucellosis; 26. Leptospirosis; 27. Relapsing fever; 28. Plague; 29. Anthrax; 30. Tetanus; 31. Diphtheria; 32. Leprosy; 33. Cholera; Part VI. Viral Infections: 34. Viral haemorrhagic fevers: yellow fever, Lassa fever, Rift Valley fever, Ebola/Marburg fever and Crimean-Congo fever; 35. Dengue; 36. Rabies; 37. Influenza; 38. Poliomyelitis; 39. Varicella (chicken pox), Herpes zoster and monkey pox; 40. Rubella; 41. Mumps; Part VII. Protozoal Infections: 42. Leishmaniasis; 43. Human Africa trypanosomiasis; 44. Amoebiasis; 45. Intestinal protozoa; Part VIII. Helminth Infections: 46. Intestinal helminths; 47. Schistosomiasis; 48. Lymphatic filariasis and Loa Loa; 49. Onchocerciasis; 50. Cysticercosis; 51. Hydatid disease; 52. Paragonimiasis; 53. Trichinosis; 54. Guinea worm; Part IX. Fungal Infections: 55. Fungal infections; Part X. Non-Communicable Diseases: 56. Chronic and non-communicable disease in Africa; 57. Chronic non-communicable disease in health care; 58. Diabetes mellitus; 59. Hypertension; 60. Stroke; 61. Epilepsy; 62. Mental health; 63.

Mabey, David
David Mabey is Professor of Communicable Diseases at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He worked for eight years at the Medical Research Council Laboratories in Gambia, where he was in charge of clinical services.

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