Tropical Diseases: A Practical Guide for Medical Practitioners and Students

After reviewing 4 texts on tropical medicine I purchased this as well as another. This was my 2nd favorite text. It is very good and more thorough than the other. It is a little more difficult read but makes an excellent reference text because of it's thoroughness. I recommend it.

This is a comprehensive, practical book on tropical diseases for the clinician, in particular for those who do not see tropical diseases in their daily practice. It's up-to-date and fits in your lab jacket pocket. For those medical mission trips, indispensible!

Okay, practical needs more photographs.

The book provides valuable information in a very well organized manner. The section on international names of medications was useful in my recent African trip.

Not a detailed text for understanding mechanisms of disease, but great for reference and treatment.

great little book docs in the tropical wild

Excellent and comprehensive.

Great!

This is a wonderful , concise and to th point no nonsense book on Tropical disease.The author(s) give useful cryptic advice that comes from their experience and don't waste much time on various probabilities or sit on the fence.Each chapter ends with an anecdote about a patient diagnosed or treated to put the knowledge ( and the doubting reader) in its place. I hav read Manson's tropical disease( parts), Lecture notes on Tropical Medicine and a few of WHO publications, this one is the most forthright. The book is in Kindle AZW4 format so kindle reader will not be able to open it. Kindle app on mac os and iPhone can manage and do it well. Kindle version price is reasonable. The cover picture makes it look like a travel or gardening book that is why I did not buy it the first time round.Lancet rates the book highly and I believe it. Bur, be careful, sometimes it is too dogmatic- e.f: p207 "Splenomegaly never occurs in Dengue fever "- the correct statement would be palpable splenomegaly never occurs in Dengue fever. These days , many times, patient will have USG of abdomen and splenomegaly is reported in 6-16% of cases.