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	Tropical Medicine Manuscript Collections at NLM--A Subject Guide: Introduction
		Tropical medicine began in the nineteenth century when doctors diagnosed infectious diseases in soldiers and colonists who had lived in tropical areas.
		Tropical diseases can be defined as those that are mainly of parasitic origin and are common in tropical or subtropical areas.
		The climate of the tropics (between the latitudinal lines of the Tropic of Cancer (23.5N) and the Tropic of Capricorn (23.5S)) is a particularly fertile climate for these diseases because of the insects that exist there.
	www.nlm.nih.gov /hmd/manuscripts/tropical/intro.html (479 words)

	AllRefer.com - tropical medicine (Medicine) - Encyclopedia
		tropical medicine, study, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of certain diseases prevalent in the tropics.
		The warmth and humidity of the tropics and the often unsanitary conditions under which so many people in those areas live contribute to the development and dissemination of many infectious diseases and parasitic infestations.
		The emergence in central Africa of the Ebola virus, which exists in an as yet unknown host and is fatal to 50–90% of those infected, has been especially challenging to medical personnel in underequipped hospitals where outbreaks have occurred.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/T/tropmed.html (368 words)

	Dept. of Tropical Medicine, Medical Microbiology and Pharmacology \| John A. Burns School of Medicine, UHM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		Tropical medicine faculty conduct studies on infectious organisms and the diseases they cause, including dengue, West Nile, AIDS, hepatitis, viral and bacterial encephalitis, malaria, tuberculosis and Kawasaki disease.
		The field of tropical medicine requires knowledge of virology, bacteriology, parasitology, entomology, immunology, cell and molecular biology, epidemiology, ecology, behavioral science and clinical medicine.
		Students are encouraged to take course work covering a broad array of the disciplines involved in the field of tropical medicine, including coursework offered by other academic departments as relevant to their area of concentration.
	hawaiimed.hawaii.edu /departments/tropical (896 words)

	pediatric infectious diseases web / pid web
		the lshtm is one of the leading institutions in europe for public health and tropical medicine.
		health protection agency (hpa), formerly the phls, but is situated in the london school of hygiene and tropical medicine.
		the malaria journal is published by biomed central - an open-access publishing house - in collaboration with the liverpool school of tropical medicine.
	www.pediatric-infectious-diseases.com (5170 words)

	Diploma in Tropical Medicine & Hygiene (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		The Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (DTMandH) is a three-month, full-time course in tropical medicine and public health for physicians.
		It is designed for physicians who intend to work in the tropics, those with tropical experience who have returned for a refresher, or practitioners who may be working in non-tropical countries and who need experience in clinical parasitology, imported diseases and travel medicine.
		One day a week is spent at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, where clinical activities include bedside teaching, small group discussions, and, because the number of clinical cases in the Hospital is often limited, case presentations of "paper cases" derived from recent cases seen at the Hospital.
	www.lshtm.ac.uk /prospectus/short/stmh.html (1164 words)

	UHM Graduate Studies - Tropical Medicine
		Tropical medicine is the study of diseases that occur more commonly in the tropical regions of the world.
		Students who study tropical medicine at UHM have learning opportunities in virology, bacteriology, parasitology, entomology, immunology, cell and molecular biology, epidemiology, ecology, behavioral science and clinical medicine.
		In their research, the faculty employ a multidisciplinary approach that encompasses various aspects of tropical medicine, including immunology, pathogenesis, epidemiology, diagnosis, prevention, control, treatment, socio-ecological systems, human ecology, microbial and vector ecology, environmental change, and participatory action.
	www.hawaii.edu /graduatestudies/fields/html/departments/stuz/tropicmed/tropicmed.htm (954 words)

	Tropical-Medicine.net: Bacterial, Parasitic and Viral diseases common to the Tropics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		Indeed, tropical medicine had its beginnings in the 19th century when doctors saw infectious diseases in colonists and soldiers who had lived in tropical areas.
		Tropical medicine is the branch of medical science that covers diseases that occur primarily in countries with tropical or subtropical climates.
		Tropical medicine studies the epidemiologic, biologic and social aspects of tropical diseases.
	www.tropical-medicine.net (288 words)

	Institute of Maritime and Tropical Medicine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		The Institute of Maritime and Tropical Medicine was established in 1939 in Gdynia as a branch of the State Institute of Public Health in Warszawa.
		Its activities were much expanded, and were focused on tropical medicine and the health of maritime workers (seafarers, fishermen, dockers, shipyard workers, divers).
		Research activities of the Institute are focused on the study of health problems of maritime workers (seafarers, fishermen, dockers, shipyard workers, divers) and travelers (people assigned to work in the tropics, other groups of travellers), and their health protection; study of environmental factors in the workplace, and in the coastal regions of the country.
	tropik.immt.gdynia.pl /immt_gb.htm (1169 words)

	Tropical Medicine Manuscript Collections at NLM--A Subject Guide: Alphabetical List
		The three editions of his Veterinary Medicine and Human Health remain the only comprehensive treatment of that overall subject and his Spink Lectures on Comparative Medicine were the first attempt to document historically the research dimension of veterinary medicine's contributions to human medicine.
		Shannon was on the faculty of the New York University College of Medicine from 1929-1946.
		Separately bound is the dissertation of Marcus Whitman, "Of temperature and its affects on the human system," later noted for his exploration and settlement of Oregon under the auspices of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions and as the subject of a massacre.
	www.nlm.nih.gov /hmd/manuscripts/tropical/alpha.html (10410 words)

	tropical medicine on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		The emergence in central Africa of the Ebola virus, which exists in an as yet unknown host and is fatal to 50%-90% of those infected, has been especially challenging to medical personnel in underequipped hospitals where outbreaks have occurred.
		Imperial Medicine: Patrick Manson and the Conquest of Tropical Disease.
		Medicine man; Duane Gubler is leading the fight against tropical diseases in the region.(HB Health Care)
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/t1/tropmed.asp (643 words)

	Establishing the Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (DTM&H) course in the Sultanate of Oman -- Scrimgeour 80 ...
		Establishing the Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (DTMandH) course in the Sultanate of Oman
		Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (DTMandH) course was established
		for the Diploma in Tropical Medicine in 1904, and in Edinburgh,
	pmj.bmjjournals.com /cgi/content/full/80/942/221 (1563 words)

	School of Tropical Medicine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		The School of Tropical Medicine was established in 1921 in Calcutta, India.
		Its establishment, was due to the results of a government initiative as well as private efforts, and was an important landmark in the development and research in tropical medicine in India.
		The person who took a leading role in its creation was Leonard Rogers (1868-1962) of the Indian Medical Service, professor of pathology at the Calcutta Medical College.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/School_of_Tropical_Medicine (105 words)

	Tropical Medicine Central Resource (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		Other causes in tropical countries include insect bites and jigger wounds, male and female circumcision, tribal scarification, uvulectomy, and the variety of dirty materials used to dress open wounds.
		Tetanus may follow contamination of a tropical ulcer or even chronic middle ear disease.
		In Dakar, it was noted in 1967 that 34% of all cases of tetanus in females were the result of ear-piercing, but fortunately this carried a low mortality.
	tmcr.usuhs.mil /tmcr/chapter33/epidemi.htm (657 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Lecture Notes on Tropical Medicine (Lecture Notes): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		Lecture Notes on Tropical Medicine is a core text with an emphasis on the clinical aspects of problem-solving and management in the tropics.
		It is a practical companion for the increasing number of students and doctors who have the opportunity to practice medicine in the tropics and is also a key resource for clinicians who see patients with tropical disorders.
		This edition also includes new chapters that broaden the traditional scope of ‘tropical medicine’: a chapter on non-communicable diseases, such as epilepsy, diabetes and hypertension, which are becoming more widespread in the tropics, and a chapter on refugee health that covers humanitarian disasters, control of epidemics and health assessment of asylum seekers.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/063206496X (735 words)

	XVIe International Congress for Tropical Medicine and Malaria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		During this Congress, several plenary sessions, poster sessions and symposia, will not only cover the usual tropical medicine issues (Malaria and other parasitic diseases, AIDS and Tuberculosis and other infectious diseases) but will also address the social, cultural and economic problems among others, specific to health in the tropics in the 21st century.
		The City of Marseilles is pleased and honored to host the 16th International Congress on Tropical Diseases and Malaria from September 11 to September 15, 2005.
		This event is being held in our city to commemorate the centennial anniversary of the founding of the Tropical Medicine Institute of the Army Health Corps at the Pharo Palace Park.
	www.iftm-pharo2005.org (428 words)

	Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine - Hamburg
		Infectious diseases transmitted by tropical agents represent a depressing health problem which in times of globalisation, long-distance tourism and migration grows more and more dangerous.
		For 100 years the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine has dedicated itself to research regarding tropical illnesses, treatment of patients affected, and to the vocational training of doctors in the field of tropical medicine.
		As the most important and largest institution for tropical medicine in Germany, the Bernhard Nocht Institute enjoys a good reputation all over the world.
	www15.bni-hamburg.de /bni/bni2/neu2/getfile.acgi?area_engl%3Dwelcome%26pid%3D00 (158 words)

	New Medicine for an Epidemic of Neglect \| Business \| Deutsche Welle \| 23.09.2004
		New Medicine for an Epidemic of Neglect
		As a conference on tropical medicine gets underway in Germany Thursday, a look at pharmaceutical companies' long-criticized role in the field shows that entrenched attitudes just might be changing.
		Experts believe that one of the reasons for the drug industry's turnabout on tropical disease research is the spread of AIDS, which is largely taking place in the developing world, and the immense public pressure coupled with lobbying by public health activists for companies to do something about it.
	www.dw-world.de /dw/article/0,,1336074,00.html?maca=en-topstories-83-rdf (1188 words)

	All Saints University of Medicine, ASUM Aruba - Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		All Saints University of Medicine is committed to providing high quality education leading to an MD degree whilst keeping tuition and fees affordable.
		We seek students who demonstrate a strong drive and desire to succeed and achieve, while still being able to maintain a focus on the compassionate and the humanitarian aspects of the field.
		ASUM is listed in the IMED, due to its recognition by the respective agencies in Aruba, and is also recognized by the Medical Council of Canada (MCC), thus ensuring that students will be eligible for licensure in the United States and Canada.
	www.asumaruba.org (235 words)

	THIRD EUROPEAN CONGRESS ON TROPICAL MEDICINE AND INTERNATIONAL HEALTH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		On behalf of Federation of the European Societies of Tropical Medicine and International Health (FESTMIH) it is our great pleasure to invite you to participate in the 3rd European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health, in Lisbon.
		The slogan of this meeting will be "Tropical Medicine: A Global Challenge", as the world is increasingly seen as a "global village" where health problems in one region rapidly have implications in other regions of the earth.
		In the field of Tropical Medicine, we permanently face challenges with cumulative data of most recent knowledge and results of research.
	kit-group.org /tropical2002 (309 words)

	Tropical & Travel Medicine Seminar Series
		The Tropical and Travel Medicine (TTM) Seminar was initiated in the spring of 1999 to create a forum for education, fellowship, and community-building around local and international health issues largely ignored because they affect vulnerable and socio-economically disadvantaged people and populations.
		To raise awareness of tropical and travel related disorders in the local community--Minnesota has the largest refugee resettlement program in the nation and, like the rest of the world, is seeing a large increase in international travel.
		Create a forum for local experts in tropical and travel medicine to maintain and expand their clinical knowledge and skills.
	www.tropical.umn.edu (362 words)

	Hotez Named Chair of Microbiology and Tropical Medicine
		An internationally recognized medical parasitologist and tropical disease expert, Dr. Hotez is breaking new ground in the molecular biology and epidemiology of diseases caused by parasitic helminths, or worm parasites, and the development of vaccines that combat them.
		He heads a department at GWUMC that, along with substantial ongoing microbiology research projects, is unique in its scope as it seeks to develop new vaccines and drugs for previously neglected diseases in developing countries.
		Hotez is a member of the scientific advisory boards of the Albert B. Sabin Vaccine Foundation and the Charles H. Hood Foundation, and is council member of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
	www.gwumc.edu /globalmd/hotez.htm (750 words)

	London: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
		Students are normally practising doctors; they must have a degree in medicine and be registered medical practitioners in their own country.
		Second class honours degree of a UK university in science, or a related subject, a degree in medicine or an appropriate technical qualification and work experience, or equivalent qualifications and experience from overseas.
		Tropical public health, medical parasitology, practical aspects of medical work in the tropics, introduction to travel medicine.
	www.healthtraining.org /schools/london_shtm.php (2477 words)

	TROPICAL MEDICINE ON THE COAST OF MEXICO - cfhi.org
		The Tropical Medicine program takes place in Puerto Escondido, a small town in the state of Oaxaca.
		In addition to learning about tropical diseases, students will be assisting doctors in diagnosing and treating diabetes in communities that often lack the necessary resources to handle the disease on their own.
		Castillo is a doctor of general medicine with specialty in Ob/Gyn working at his own offices providing primarily Ultrasound services.
	www.cfhi.org /prog_desc.php4?pcode=18 (1714 words)

	Authors Guidelines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		Published on behalf of The Belgian Society of Tropical Medicine and the Prince Leopold Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerpen; the Bernard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg; the Foundation for Tropical and Geographical Medicine, Amsterdam; the London School of Hygiene, London; and the Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel
		TMI welcomes coverage of international meetings whose published research or policy resolutions are relevant to the fields of tropical medicine and international health.
		Tropical Medicine and International Health is covered by Blackwell Publishing’s OnlineEarly service.
	www.blackwellpublishing.com /submit.asp?ref=1360-2276 (2021 words)

	International Emergency Medicine - Tropical Medicine
		To improve our diagnostic abilities, tropical infectious diseases have become an important part of our emergency medicine training, a basic knowledge of which is fundamental for any physician working with these populations of patients.
		Past lectures have emphasized the diagnostic approach to fever in the returned traveler, tropical causes of space occupying lesions of the hepatobiliary tree diagnosed by bedside ultrasound, leprosy, malaria, and tropical skin ulcers.
		Signs such as these are posted to remind the population the necessity of precautionary measures to combat malaria, which remains a deadly disease, especially in the young.
	www.usc.edu /schools/medicine/departments/emergency_medicine/international/Pages/tropical_medicine.html (388 words)

	Virtual Hospital: Emporiatrics: An Introduction to Travel Medicine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		Yet, up to one-half of visitors to the tropics will spend a large part of their journey flitting between bathrooms and others may spend days feeling too sick to leave their hotel rooms.
		More detailed information and information on the evaluation of returned travelers with tropical illnesses may be found in the references and in standard Tropical Medicine texts.
		A list of Travel Clinics is available from the International Society for Travel Medicine (www.istm.org/) or the American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (www.astmh.org/).
	www.vh.org /Providers/Textbooks/TravelMedicine/TravelMedHP.html (525 words)

	Armchair World: Dr. Alan Spira on Travel Medicine
		Alan Spira MD, DTM and H. is Diplomat of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from the London School of Tropical Medicine, the world's premier tropical medicine institute.
		He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and a member of both the American Society of Tropical Medicine and the International Society of Travel Medicine.
		He is board-certified in emergency medicine and serves on the emergency medicine faculty at the Northridge Medical Center.
	www.armchair.com /info/chos1.html (315 words)

	Epidemiology short course: European Course in Tropical Epidemiology - ECTE
		The European Course in Tropical Epidemiology (ECTE) is a collaborative course organised by participating European centres of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.
		Emphasis will be on the methodology and practical application of epidemiological tools in developing countries, the interpretation of data and on the reporting of field studies.
		London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK Department of Public Health, Prince Leopold Institute for Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium.
	www.ecte.org (541 words)

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