Since the first edition more than 10 years ago many new information material about tropical diseases have been collected. New technologies were established (e.g. hybridization techniques, flow cytometry, image analysis, telepathology, serologic analysis etc.). The continuous and rapid improvement of tourism in all countries of the world and the increasing emigration of peoples of the developing countries to the old continents have changed the classical image of tropical diseases which are seen with greater frequency in temporative and highly developed countries. For these reasons new concepts were necessary for the second edition of the pathology of tropical diseases. The 27 chapters are written by well reputed experts in these fields.

General Aspects

1 Guidelines for Autopsies in the Tropics
2 Geomedicine
3 Genetic Diseases in the Tropics
Infectious Diseases
4 New Technology for the Diagnosis of Infectious Disease
Bacterial Diseases
5 Intestinal Bacterial Infections
6 Non-Intestinal Bacterial Infections
7 Spirochaetal and Leptospiral Diseases
8 Infections Caused by Rickettsiae and Rickettsia-Like Organisms and Bartonellosis
9 Mycobacterial Infections of the Skin
10 Sexually Transmitted Diseases in the Tropics
Viral Diseases
11 The Viral Haemorrhagic Fevers
Protozoal Diseases
12 Intestinal Protozoa
13 Malaria
14 Leishmaniasis
15 Trypanosomiasis
Mycotic Diseases
16 Tropical Mycotic Diseases
Metazoal Diseases
17 Helminthology
Non-Infectious Diseases
18 Malnutrition and Intestinal Malabsorption
Special Pathology of Organ Systems
19 Cardiovascular Diseases in the Tropics
20 Blood Diseases in the Tropics
21 Cirrhosis and Other Liver Diseases
22 Renal Diseases in the Tropics
Neoplasias
23 Cancer in the Tropics
24 Kaposi's Sarcoma
Environmental Diseases
25 Environmental Diseases in the Tropics
Addendum
26 Diseases of Uncertain Aetiology.