Tropical Diseases Bulletin

Overview

Tropical Diseases Bulletin is the leading bibliographic and abstracts database for research on infectious diseases and public health in developing countries and the tropics. 

Delivery Platforms

Coverage

Infectious diseases and parasitoses 
Infectious diseases of humans including

• prion diseases
• viral diseases
• bacterial diseases
• fungal diseases
• parasitoses

Includes

• nosocomial infections
• opportunistic infections
• food-, water- and vector-borne diseases
• zoonoses
• sexually transmitted diseases
• emerging infectious diseases
• imported infections
• classic tropical diseases

Patient-related aspects are emphasised and include:
 

• diagnosis, disease course, pathology, pathogenesis
• drug and non-drug therapy
• epidemiology and disease transmission including transmission by vectors and by risk behaviours
• public health, prevention programmes, infection control, immunization, screening, case finding, public health campaigns
• clinical microbiology relating to isolates from patients including drug resistance and susceptibility, molecular epidemiology, surveys of presence of virulence factors, and development of diagnostic tests using clinical isolates.

Public health and medical zoology

Medical entomology, including diseases caused by

• arthropods
• arthropod bites and stings
• disease vectors in relation to disease transmission
• public health in relation to nuisance pests
   

Medical zoology, including medical herpetology (venomous snakes)

Snake bites, including clinical studies and biochemistry of venoms. Illness caused by

• arthropod bites
• stings
• plant and animal toxins

Environmental health

• epidemiological studies of environmentally-caused disease in the general population
• health effects of environmental factors
• studies documenting exposure of the general population
• health consequences of environmental accidents or natural disasters

Public and community health

• health promotion and disease prevention. Risk behaviours
• epidemiology of non-communicable diseases such as cancer, heart diseases, risk factors including effects of diet or lifestyle
• global burden of disease
• general demography, rates of birth, death, fertility
• health of indigenous or marginalised populations
• health systems

Reproductive health

• maternal and infant health
• maternal and infant mortality
• maternal health care
• abortion
• contraception
• sexual health
• sexually transmitted diseases

Travel medicine

• health of travellers
• disease prevention in travellers
• immunization
• travel advice
• health promotion
• imported infections and illness during travel
• refugee and immigrant health in developed and developing countries

Nutrition

• malnutrition and deficiency diseases
• feeding programmes
• interaction between nutrition and other diseases

Health services

• health service provision and access
• health care
• cost of health care
• health policy

Traditional medicine

• medicinal plants
• traditional therapy of diseases
• indigenous knowledge
• traditional health care and health care workers

Occupational health

• occupational health
• occupational diseases
• disease prevention
• screening
• accidents and injury rates and reduction
• exposure monitoring
• health and safety

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