Forgotten people, forgotten diseases : the neglected tropical diseases and their impact on global health and development / Peter J. Hotez.
By: Hotez, Peter J [author.]
Language: English Series: American society for microbiologyPublisher: Washington, DC : ASM Press, [2021]Edition: Third editionDescription: 1 online resourceContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781683673873; 9781683673897Subject(s): Tropical medicineGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 362.196/9883 LOC classification: RC961Online resources: Full text is available at Wiley Online Library Click here to view| Item type | Current location | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Peter J. Hotez, MD, PhD, is an internationally-recognized physician-scientist in NTDs and vaccine development. Professor Hotez is Dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine and Professor of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology & Microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine, codirector of the Texas Children’s Center for Vaccine Development, Texas Children’s Hospital Endowed Chair of Tropical Pediatrics, and the founding Editorin-Chief of PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, among other appointments.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Chapter 1 Introduction to the Neglected Tropical Diseases: the Ancient Afflictions of Stigma and Poverty 1
Chapter 2 “The Unholy Trinity”: the Soil-Transmitted Helminth Infections Ascariasis, Trichuriasis, and Hookworm Infection 17
Chapter 3 Schistosomiasis (Snail Fever) and the Food-borne Trematodiases 39
Chapter 4 Elephantiasis: Lymphatic Filariasis, Endemic Nonfilarial Elephantiasis (Podoconiosis), and Dracunculiasis (Guinea Worm) 55
Chapter 5 The Blinding Neglected Tropical Diseases: Onchocerciasis (River Blindness) and Trachoma 75
Chapter 6 The Mycobacterial Infections: Buruli Ulcer and Leprosy 95
Chapter 7 The Kinetoplastid Infections: Human African Trypanosomiasis (Sleeping Sickness), American Trypanosomiasis (Chagas Disease), and the Leishmaniases 111
Chapter 8 The Urban Neglected Tropical Diseases: Leptospirosis, Dengue and Zika, and Rabies 143
Chapter 9 The Neglected Tropical Diseases of North America 159
Chapter 10 Uniting to Combat Neglected Tropical Diseases, and a New WHO Roadmap (2021–2030) 181
Chapter 11 Future Trends in Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases and the Antipoverty Vaccines 203
Chapter 12 The Newest NTDs and a Plea to “Repair the World” 217
Appendix: What Are the Neglected Tropical Diseases? 227
Index 229
"EPI The age of hypocrisy has been succeeded by that of indifference, which is worse, for indifference corrupts and appeases: it kills the spirit before it kills the body. It has been stated before, it bears repeating: the opposite of love is not hate, but indifference./ EPI . EPI It is a trite saying that one half the world knows not how the other lives. Who can say what sores might be healed, what hurts solved, were the doings of each half of the world's inhabitants understood and appreciated by the other?/ EPI"-- Provided by publisher.
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