Tropical Diseases: Definition, Geographic Distribution, Transmission, and Classification

The term tropical diseases encompasses all diseases that occur principally in the tropics. This term covers all communicable and noncommunicable diseases, genetic disorders, and disease caused by nutritional deficiencies or environmental conditions (such as heat, humidity, and altitude) that are enc...

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Autores principales: Zumla, Alimuddin, Ustianowski, Andrew
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Inc. 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7135174/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22632634
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idc.2012.02.007
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description The term tropical diseases encompasses all diseases that occur principally in the tropics. This term covers all communicable and noncommunicable diseases, genetic disorders, and disease caused by nutritional deficiencies or environmental conditions (such as heat, humidity, and altitude) that are encountered in areas that lie between, and alongside, the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn belts. In tropical countries, apart from noncommunicable diseases, a severe burden of disease is caused by an array of different microorganisms, parasites, land and sea animals, and arthropods.
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spelling pubmed-71351742020-04-08 Tropical Diseases: Definition, Geographic Distribution, Transmission, and Classification Zumla, Alimuddin Ustianowski, Andrew Infect Dis Clin North Am Article The term tropical diseases encompasses all diseases that occur principally in the tropics. This term covers all communicable and noncommunicable diseases, genetic disorders, and disease caused by nutritional deficiencies or environmental conditions (such as heat, humidity, and altitude) that are encountered in areas that lie between, and alongside, the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn belts. In tropical countries, apart from noncommunicable diseases, a severe burden of disease is caused by an array of different microorganisms, parasites, land and sea animals, and arthropods. Elsevier Inc. 2012-06 2012-04-23 /pmc/articles/PMC7135174/ /pubmed/22632634 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idc.2012.02.007 Text en Copyright © 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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