Neglected Tropical Diseases - Latin America and the Caribbean

ISBN-13: 9783709114216 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 243 str.

Carlos Franco-Paredes

Opis

The neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) represent some of the most common infections of the poorest people living in Latin American and Caribbean (LAC). Because they primarily afflict the poor as well as selected indigenous populations and people of African descent, the NTDs in LAC are largely forgotten diseases. Yet, their collective disease burden may exceed better known conditions such as of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, or malaria. Based on their prevalence and healthy life years lost from disability, hookworm infection, other soil-transmitted helminth infections and Chagas disease are the most important NTDs in LAC, followed by dengue, schistosomiasis, leishmaniasis, trachoma, leprosy, and lymphatic filariasis. On the other hand, for some important NTDs, such as leptospirosis and cysticercosis, disease burden estimates are not available. The NTDs in LAC geographically concentrate in 11 different sub-regions, each with a distinctive human and environmental ecology. Each chapter of this volume deals with a major disease. Topics like disease burden, major manifestations and approaches to control and elimination of NTDs in Latin America are discussed in detail. It is therefore of general interest for basic researchers and clinicians engaged in infectious disease and parasitology and a must have for scientists specialized in the characteristics of this geographic region of the world. "

Spis treści

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.

Blurb

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, followed by dengue, schistosomiasis, leishmaniasis, leprosy, cysticercosis, bartonellosis, Plasmodium vivax malaria, and onchocerciasis. Topics like disease burden, major manifestations and approaches to the control and elimination of NTDs in Latin America and the Caribbean are discussed in detail. As such, the book will be of general interest to basic researchers and clinicians engaged in infectious disease, tropical medicine, and parasitology, and a must-have for scientists specialized in the characteristics of this region of the world.​