Nuclear Medicine in Tropical and Infectious Diseases

Nuclear Medicine in Tropical and Infectious Diseases edited by Francisco José H.N. Braga.

"More than half of the world's population is at risk of the tropical diseases malaria, leprosy, schistosomiasis, lymphatic filariasis, onchocerciasis, Chagas' disease, African trypanosomiasis and leishmaniasis and half a billion are infected with at least one of these diseases"....

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Braga, Francisco José H.N (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2002.
Edition:1st ed. 2002.
Series:Developments in Nuclear Medicine ; 34
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Infectious diseases.
Nuclear medicine.
Microbiology.
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Table of Contents:
  • Diseases caused by Bacteria
  • 1 - Tuberculosis
  • 2 - Leprosy
  • 3 - Syphilis
  • 4 - Yaws
  • 5 - Lyme’s Disease
  • 6 - Brucellosis
  • 7 - Other Diseases caused by Bacteriae
  • Diseases caused by Fung
  • 8 - Sporotrichosis
  • 9 - Coccidioidomycosis
  • 10 - Candidiasis
  • 11 - Paracoccidioidomycosis
  • 12 - Histoplasmosis
  • 13 - Blastomycosis
  • 14 - Other Mycoses
  • Diseases caused by Protozoan
  • 15 - Chagas’Heart Disease
  • 16 - Chagas’Disease of the Digestive Tract 123 Chapter 17 - Other Diseases caused by Protozoan
  • Diseases caused by Viruses
  • 18 ¡ª Encephalitis caused by Viruses
  • 19 - Other Diseases caused by Viruses
  • Disease caused by Helminths
  • 20 - Hydatid Disease
  • 21 - Filariasis
  • 22 - Schistosomiasis
  • 23 - Neurocysticercosis
  • 24 - Other Diseases caused by Helminths
  • Advances in Infection and Inflammation Imaging
  • 25 - The choice of the best radiopharmaceutical to image specific clinical situations in patients with Infection and Inflammation
  • 26 - Fever of Unknown Origin in Adults: General Aspects and the Role of Nuclear Medicine
  • 27 - The Rising Incidence of Invasive Fungal Infections: Is There a Role for Nuclear Medicine?
  • 28 - Molecular Imaging of Mononuclear Cell Mediated Inflammation: from Histopatological Findings to Clinical Practice
  • 29 - The Use of Radiolabelled Antibiotics to Localise Inflammation and infection
  • 30 - Labelling Micro-organisms and Parts of Micro-organisms.

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