Neglected Tropical Diseases - Latin America and the Caribbean

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Franco-Paredes, Carlos (Editor), Santos-Preciado, José Ignacio (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Vienna : Springer Vienna : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Neglected Tropical Diseases,
• Subjects: Medicine.; Medical microbiology.; Parasitology.; Infectious diseases.; Tropical medicine.; Epidemiology.; Biomedicine.; Infectious Diseases.; Tropical Medicine.; Medical Microbiology.

This book addresses the major neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) – based on their prevalence and the years of healthy life lost to disability – in Latin American and Caribbean countries. These include Chagas disease, leishmaniasis, hookworm infection, and other soil-transmitted helminth infections,...

Table of Contents:

• The Neglected Tropical Diseases in Latin America and the Caribbean: Burden of Disease and Approaches for Elimination and Control
• Schistosomiasis in the Americas
• Chagas Disease
• Hookworm infection in Latin America and the Caribbean region
• Plasmodium vivax malaria in Latin America
• Leishmaniasis in the Americas
• Fascioliasis
• A roadmap followed: The path towards the elimination of onchocerciasis in Latin America
• Leprosy in the Americas: Burden of Disease and approaches for control/elimination
• Carrion’s Disease
• Dengue in Latin America: a persistent and growing public health challenge
• Cysticercosis disease burden in Latin America
• Histopathology of neglected tropical diseases.