Overview
- Summarizes the current knowledge of NTD disease burden and surveillance in South Asia
- Explains the tools of management of NTDs in this geographic area
- Multi-authored volume with highly specific focus
Part of the book series: Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
This book covers all aspects of Neglected Tropical Diseases in the region of South Asia. NTDs constitute a significant part of the total disease burden in this geographic area, including soil borne helminth infections, vector borne viral infections, protozoan infections and a few bacterial infections. The current volume covers the most common neglected viral, bacterial and protozoan infections. On top of that, the last part of the volume is dedicated to the management of neglected tropical diseases.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Sunit K. Singh, Laboratory of Human Molecular Virology & Immunology
Molecular Biology Unit, Faculty of Medicine
Institute of Medical Sciences
Banaras Hindu University India
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Neglected Tropical Diseases - South Asia
Editors: Sunit K. Singh
Series Title: Neglected Tropical Diseases
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68493-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-68492-5Published: 05 April 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09836-0Published: 14 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-68493-2Published: 19 March 2018
Series ISSN: 2194-8275
Series E-ISSN: 2194-8283
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 404
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 35 illustrations in colour
Topics: Medical Microbiology, Infectious Diseases, Parasitology, Tropical Medicine, Public Health