Infectious Diseases of the Philippines 2010 edition - E-book - Multi-format

Infectious Diseases of the Philippinesis one in a series of GIDEONwww.gideononline.com (Lien -> http://www.gideononline.com)) which relies on standard text books, peer-review journals, Health Ministry reports and ProMED, supplemented by an ongoing search of the medical literature. Chapters are arranged alphabetically, by disease name. Each section is divided into four sections: 1. Descriptive epidemiology 2.
Summary of clinical features 3. Status of the disease in the Philippines 4. References There are 347 generic infectious diseases in the world today. 222 of these are endemic, or potentially endemic, to the Philippines. A number of other diseases are not relevant to the Philippines and have not been included in this book. In addition to endemic diseases, all published data regarding imported diseases and infection among expatriates from the Philippines are included.