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A manual of tropical medicine [Diseases caused by the arthropod-borne viruses; Enterovirus infections, including poliomyelitis; Other virus diseases of special importance or interest in tropical or subtropical areas; Ricketsial diseases; Epidemic typhus; Murine typhus; American spotted fevers; Related spotted fevers and rickettsioses; Rickettsialpox; North Queensland tick typhus; Scrub typhus; Trench typhus; Q fever; Spirochetal diseases; The relapsing fevers; Yaws and bejel; Pinta; The leptospiral diseases; Rat-bite fevers; Sodoku --- Haverhill fever; Bacterial diseases; The Diarrheal diseases; Bacillary dysentery; shigellosis; Food poisoning; Botulism; Staphylococcus; Strptococcus; Salmonella; Clostridium Perfringens; Cholera; Brucellosis
Hunter, George W. (George William) III ; Mackie, Thomas Turlay, 1895- ; Frye, William W. ; Swartzwelder, J. Clyde [R Tucker Abbott, Victor M Arean, E j Bell, George R Callender, Norman F Conant, Gordon E Davis, Vincent J Derbes, Paul D Ellner, John P Fox, William S Gochenour, IRving Gordon, Robert L Hullinghorst, Rodney Jung, Kenneth L Knight, Arthur P Long, Jean Mayer, Henry Edmund Meleney, Harry Most, John P O'Brien, Charles S Petty, Cornelius B Philip, Albert B Sabin, Arvey C Sanders, Carroll N Smith, Frederick J Stare, Herbert G Stoenner, Emanual Suter, Phillips Thygeson, H W Wade, Luther S West, C Brooke Worth, Robert H Yager, Martin D Young]
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Ajouter au panierHardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. 3rd Edition. 3rd edition ; xxx, 892 p. illustrated ; LCCN: 60-5421; OCLC: 2700679 ; LC: RC961; Dewey: 616.9883; NLM: WC 680 ; green cloth ; no dustjacket ; Contents: Diseases caused by the arthropod-borne viruses -- Enterovirus infections, including poliomyelitis -- Other virus diseases of special importance or interest in tropical or subtropical areas -- Ricketsial diseases -- Epidemic typhus -- Murine typhus -- American spotted fevers -- Related spotted fevers and rickettsioses -- Rickettsialpox -- North Queensland tick typhus -- Scrub typhus -- Trench typhus -- Q fever -- Spirochetal diseases -- The relapsing fevers -- Yaws and bejel -- Pinta -- The leptospiral diseases -- Rat-bite fevers -- Sodoku --- Haverhill fever -- Bacterial diseases -- The Diarrheal diseases -- Bacillary dysentery -- shigellosis -- Food poisoning -- Botulism -- Staphylococcus -- Strptococcus -- Salmonella -- Clostridium Perfringens -- Cholera -- Brucellosis -- Tuberculosis -- Leprosy -- Plague -- Cutaneous diptheria -- Tularemia -- Mycotic diseases -- Cutaneous mycoses -- Systemic mycoses -- Protozoal diseases -- The intestinal protozoa -- Amebiasis and related infections -- Malaria -- Toxoplasmosis -- Interstitial plasma cell pneumonia -- The trypanosomidae -- Leishmaniasis -- Kala-azar -- Cutaneous leishmaniasis -- Naso-oral or mucocutaneous peishmanisis -- African trypanosomiasis -- American trypanosomiasis -- Chagas' disease -- Trypanosoma Rangeli -- Helminthic diseases -- Intestinal nematodes -- Tissue inhabiting neamtodes : the filarioidea -- Tissue-inhabiting nematodes: the dracununculoidea -- Other tissue-inhabiting nematodes -- Trichinosis -- Creeping Eruption -- Gnathostomiasis -- Visceral Larva Migrans -- The Schistosomes -- Trematodes exclusive of schistosomes -- Cestodes -- Nutritional diseases -- Pellagra -- Beriberi -- Sprue -- Kwashiorkor -- Nutritional edema -- Osteomalacia -- Vitamin A deficiency and tropical macrocytic anemia -- Miscellaneous conditions -- Epidemic hemorrhagic fever -- Bartonellosis -- tropical ulcer -- Tropical eosinophilia -- Desert sore -- Granuloma inguinale -- Effects of heat -- Heat stroke -- Heat cramps -- heat exhaustion -- Anhidrotic asthemia -- Miliaria rubra -- Certain medically impartant animals -- Coelenterates -- Leeches -- Fishes -- Lizards -- Snakes -- Corcodilians -- Bats -- Medically important mollusks -- Medically important arthropods -- The Arachnida -- The class Insecta -- The order Diptera -- Control of arthropods of medical importance -- Toxicology of pesticides -- Some laboratory diagnostic methods -- Methods and procedures. ; some color plates ; numerous black and white photographs showing symptoms of various tropical diseases ; graphic ; ex-lib, stamps, labels, date due ; VG. Book.…

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