Critical Reviews in Tropical Medicine

1. Front Matter

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2. Priorities for Medicine and Health in the Tropics

   • C. E. Gordon Smith

   Pages 1-29

3. African Trypanosomiasis

   • Georges E. Roelants, Richard O. Williams

   Pages 31-75

4. Shigellosis

   • Gerald Keusch

   Pages 77-107

5. Giardiasis

   • Haresh I. Desai, R. K. Chandra

   Pages 109-141

6. Immunopathology of Leprosy

   • J. L. Turk

   Pages 143-169

7. Host Resistance to Malaria

   • K. N. Brown

   Pages 171-196

8. Idiopathic Small Intestinal Disease in the Tropics

   • S. J. Baker

   Pages 197-245

9. Tropical Splenomegaly

   • Nabeen C. Nayak

   Pages 247-273

10. Immune Complex Nephropathy in the Tropics

    • Jacob L. Ngu, John F. Soothill

    Pages 275-306

11. Nutrition and Work Performance

    • Jana Pařízková

    Pages 307-333

12. Multisectoral Nutrition Interventions

    • Bruce F. Johnston

    Pages 335-365

13. Burkitt’s Lymphoma

    • B. O. Osunkoya

    Pages 367-393

14. Back Matter

    Pages 395-396

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Numerous economic, sociocultural, and health problems continue to impede the optimal progress of many millions of people in the developing countries in tropical and other geographic regions of the world. Thus, tropical medicine has many aspects including parasitology, bacteriology, and virology, environmental sanitation and hygiene, nutrition, pharmacology, immunology, agriculture, eco­ nomics, political science, anthropology, sociology, and behavioral sciences. Like the mythical Proteus, the individual dealing with tropical medicine must assume many roles. There is a growing recognition of the unique problems of the tropical countries. This has led to concerted efforts by many international agencies to attempt to obtain new tools to control many of the tropical diseases that have defied previous attempts at large-scale control. The involvement of the world's leading scientists and institutions as well as the best talents and resources of the developing countries themselves has inspired considerable research in tropical medicine with an inevitable exponential growth in publications. The new series Critical Reviews in Tropical Medicine is being launched to provide topical state­ of-the-art critiques of selected subjects in this burgeoning field. Authored by active investigators in their chosen topics, these reviews should be useful for all health professionals, social scientists, and administrators involved in planning interventions, both preventive and therapeutic, in developing regions of the world. Contributions included in Volume 1 span parasitology, infectious disease, immunology, gastroenterology, liver disease, and nutrition.

• developing countries
• infectious disease
• pharmacology
• sociology
• tropical medicine

• Department of Pediatrics, Janeway Child Health Centre, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Canada

  R. K. Chandra

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

  R. K. Chandra

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