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.

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

In each volume an overview chapter introduces the newcomer to the topic covered Series covers hot topics of frontier research summarized by reputed scientists in the field Review series is topic related Online version available on SpringerLink: springerlink.com Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Contenu
Overview of Neglected Tropical Diseases.- The Medicinal Chemistry of Tuberculosis Chemotherapy.- Discovering New Medicines to Control and Eradicate Malaria.- Kinetoplastid Parasites.- Dengue Drug Discovery.- Recent Advances in Discovery and Development of Medicines for the Treatment of Secretory Diarrhea in the Developing World.