Richard L. Guerrant

Tropical Infectious Principles, Pathogens and Practice, by Drs. Richard L. Guerrant, David H. Walker, and Peter F. Weller, delivers the expert, encyclopedic guidance you need to overcome the toughest clinical challenges in diagnosing and treating diseases caused by infectious agents from tropical regions. Sweeping updates to this 3rd edition include vaccines, SARS, hepatitis A-E, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus, tick-borne encephalitis and Omsk hemorrhagic fever, human papilloma virus, and mucormycosis. New full-color images throughout allow you to more accurately view the clinical manifestations of each disease and better visualize the life cycles of infectious agents. Definitive, state-of-the-art coverage of pathophysiology as well as clinical management makes this the reference you'll want to consult whenever you are confronted with tropical infections, whether familiar or unfamiliar!Obtain complete and trustworthy advice from hundreds of the leading experts on tropical diseases worldwide, including cutting-edge summaries of pathophysiology and epidemiology as well as clinical management.Get the latest answers on vaccines, SARS, hepatitis A-E, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus, tick-borne encephalitis and Omsk hemorrhagic fever, human papilloma virus, mucormycosis, and much more.Implement best practices from all over the world with guidance from almost twice as many international authors - over 100 representing more than 35 countries.Accurately view the clinical manifestations of each disease and visualize the life cycles of infectious agents with new full-color images throughout.

These are stories about two Virginia kids moving to Boston and Baltimore, evacuated from Congo and Bangladesh, and working in Brazil and South Africa. You will read about influential teachers, a “high school sweetheart” and how anyone could become a “diarrhea doc.” Trajectories of provincial Virginia lives were shattered by a first airplane trip abroad, to the Congo, then Boston, then the country that became Bangladesh and two evacuations. Those experiences led to working in Navajo Nation, Brazil and South Africa and eventful times back at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. From crocodile hunting on the Lulua River in the Congo and a historic cyclone in Bengal to evacuations to Iran amidst the war of independence in Bangladesh, you will learn largely untold history and about colorful Nobel laureates and people across diverse American, African and Asian cultures who became great friends along this journey. These friends and experiences transformed our perspectives about our human family.

Life stories shape our viewpoints of hope or despair for our personal and societal well-being and survival. This Memoir is a personal Photo-Auto-Biography of the events and history that have shaped the lives and perspectives of an infectious diseases and global health physician-teacher-researcher and his wife of 58 years who have lived and worked in impoverished communities in the Congo, Bangladesh and Brazil. Through political arrests, a historic revolution and cyclone, and getting to know great friends and collaborators across African, Asian and South American cultures, our stories suggest a viewpoint of hope. The commonality of our genes and humanity crosses cultures, races and continents. Who we are is far more shared than different. This shared human kinship has profound meaning for each of us as persons, families, nations and civilizations; it is the recognition of that shared kinship that holds our best hope for survival.This book is based on recollections, diaries, calendars and over 26 thousand iPhotos that were selected to save or copy from family albums of two 80-year lifetimes. It includes relevant digressions about family, rural birthing clinics, pyramids, Colorado River rafting, world’s tallest trees, country graveyards, intercontinental canals and pandemics. It is complementary to the author’s more profession-oriented “Notes from a Diarrhea Doc,” but is focused much more on personal life and family experiences.