Third World Diseases

This book collects essays on many diseases that persistently affect Third World populations, offering a portrait of the current state of the battle against tuberculosis, dengue fever, malaria, kinetoplastid parasites and secretory diarrhea, among others.

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Federico Gomez de las Heras: Overview of Neglected Tropical Diseases Gwendolyn A. Marriner Amit Nayyar, Eugene Uh, Sharon Y. Wong, Tathagata Mukherjee, Laura E. Via , Matthew Carroll, Rachel L. Edwards, Todd D. Gruber, Inhee Choi, Jinwoo Lee, Kriti Arora, Kathleen D. England, Helena I.M. Boshoff, Clifton E. Barry III: The Medicinal Chemistry of Tuberculosis Chemotherapy Jeremy N. Burrows, David Waterson: Discovering New Medicines to Control and Eradicate Malaria Tomas von Geldern, Michael Oscar Harhay, Ivan Scandale, Robert Don: Kinetoplastid Parasites Pei-Yong Shi,, Zheng Yin, Shahul Nilar, Thomas H. Keller: Dengue Drug Discovery Dan Marquess: Recent Advances in Discovery and Development of Medicines for the Treatment of Secretory Diarrhea in the Developing World