**Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 in Infectious Disease**For 125 years, physicians have relied on Manson's Tropical Diseases for a comprehensive clinical overview of this complex and fast-changing field. In the fully revised 24th Edition, Dr. Jeremy Farrar, along with an internationally recognized editorial team, global contributors, and expert authors, deliver the latest coverage on parasitic and infectious diseases from around the world. From the difficult to diagnose to the difficult to treat, this highly readable, award-winning reference prepares you to effectively handle whatever your patients may have contracted.
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Covers all of tropical medicine in a comprehensive manner, general medicine in the tropics, and non-clinical issues regarding public health and ethics.
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Serves as an indispensable resource for physicians who treat patients with tropical diseases and/or will be travelling to the tropics, or who are teaching others in this area.
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Contains a new section on 21st Century Drivers of Tropical Medicine, with chapters covering Poverty and Inequality, Public Health in Settings of Conflict and Political Instability, Climate Change, and Medical Product Quality and Public Health.
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Includes all-new chapters on Surgery in the Topics, Yellow Fever, Systemic Mycoses, and COVID-19.
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Covers key topics such as drug resistance; emerging and reemerging infections such as Zika, Ebola, and Chikungunya; novel diagnostics such as PCR-based methods; point-of care-tests such as ultrasound; public health in settings of conflict and political instability; and much more.
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Differentiates approaches for resource-rich and resource-poor areas.
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Includes reader-friendly features such as highlighted key information, convenient boxes and tables, extensive cross-referencing, and clinical management diagrams.
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An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud.
Jeremy Farrar is a leading global health expert, serving as the Chief Scientist at the World Health Organization since May 2023. He oversees WHO’s science division, uniting experts worldwide to promote evidence-based policies and equitable access to health innovations.
Prior to WHO, Farrar was the Director of the Wellcome Trust from 2013 to 2023, where he led major reforms and focused on global challenges such as climate and health, infectious diseases, and mental health, emphasizing diversity and inclusion. Before that, he spent over 17 years as the Director of the Clinical Research Unit at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Vietnam, specializing in infectious diseases like influenza, HIV, dengue, and antimicrobial resistance.
A trained neurologist and infectious disease specialist, he holds a PhD in Immunology from Oxford, developed with UCSF. Farrar has published over 600 articles and received numerous honors, including knighthood in 2018, the President Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Humanitarian Award, and the Order of the Rising Sun from Japan.
In his WHO role, he leads efforts on disease prevention, health promotion, and addressing the health impacts of climate change and migration.
Gagandeep Kang - From 1 May 2023, Director-EDGE, Global Health, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
David Lalloo, MBBS, MD, FRCP, FFTM, RCPS(Glasg)
Director and Professor of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK
Nicholas J. White, OBE, MD, DSc, FRCP, F Med Sci, FRS
Professor of Tropical Medicine, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand; Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Patricia J. Garcia, MD, MPH, PhD
Professor, School of Public Health, Cayetano Heredia University, Lima, Peru
Adjunct Professor, Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
