Tropical Skin Ulcers: Global Status

Tropical Skin Ulcers: Global Status is one in a series of GIDEON ebooks which explore all individual infectious diseases, drugs, vaccines, outbreaks, surveys and pathogens in every country of the world. Data are based on the GIDEON web application (www.gideononline.com) which relies on standard text books, peer-review journals, Health Ministry reports and ProMED, supplemented by an ongoing exhaustive search of the medical literature.

The ebook includes:
1. Descriptive epidemiology
2. Clinical features
3. Distribution map
4. Images
5. Global status and status in every relevant country
6. References

Tropical Skin Ulcers: Global Status includes separate sections on Mycobacteriosis – M. ulcerans, and Tropical phagedenic ulcer.