Tropical Dermatology

Tropical diseases are not merely a group of nosologic diseases indigenous to the intertropical zone. Many are diseases of poor public health originating from poverty ignorance and population upheaval. Tropical dermatoses represent a public health problem in 127 countries with a population of 3 billion people who do not have access to health care. Currently infectious and parasitic diseases along with emergent diseases such as AIDS or old re-emergent drug-resistant diseases constitute the majority of tropical dermatoses. This handbook presents the geographical distribution etiology clinical picture and treatment of dermatoses in the tropics.