Overview
- First volume on this topic with a specific focus on the special situation in Latin ?America and the Caribbean
- Written by dedicated experts in parasitology and infectious diseases in this part of the world
- Each chapter deals with a single major disease, focussing on disease burden, major manifestation and approaches to control and elimination of NTDs in Latin America
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD)
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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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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Neglected Tropical Diseases - Latin America and the Caribbean
Editors: Carlos Franco-Paredes, José Ignacio Santos-Preciado
Series Title: Neglected Tropical Diseases
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-1422-3
Publisher: Springer Vienna
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Wien 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-7091-1421-6Published: 21 May 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-7091-4840-2Published: 29 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-7091-1422-3Published: 08 May 2015
Series ISSN: 2194-8275
Series E-ISSN: 2194-8283
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 243
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 42 illustrations in colour
Topics: Parasitology, Infectious Diseases, Tropical Medicine, Medical Microbiology, Epidemiology