Tropical Medicine Resources
London
School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)
The LSHTM is one of the leading institutions in Europe for Public Health and Tropical Medicine. The site contains information on current research, which can be browsed according to discipline or research area. Furthermore, it outlines degree programmes and application procedures. The site also provides information on the academic departments (Epidemiology and Population Health, Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Public Health and Policy), the School Centres and International Collaborating Centres. Another section contains news, press releases and information about events.
Liverpool
School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM)
The LSTM was founded in 1898, becoming the world's first institution devoted primarily to Tropical Medicine. The site contains information about the clinical services provided by LSTM such as International Travel Health Clinic, outpatient clinics, inpatient services and telephone advice for health professionals. Other sections give information on various Diploma and MSc courses, as well as current research programmes and research groups at LSTM.
The
Hospital for Tropical Diseases (HTD), London
The HTD is now part of the University College London Hospitals (UCLH), but also has close links to the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). The history of this institute dates back to 1821, when the old British Royal Navy warship HMS Grampus was converted into a floating hospital for the treatment of Tropical and Infectious Diseases. The site describes the services provided by the HTD, outlines referral procedures and gives useful contact information for doctors. You can also find a range of Travel Health products for sale such as First Aid kits, mosquito repellents and coils, bednets, needle kits and water treatment chemicals.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
and
Travelers' Health by CDC
The Centres for Disease Control are part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The website offers a plethora of information on health-related topics including the following: birth defects, disabilities, diseases and conditions, emergency preparedness and response, environmental heath, genetics and genomics, health promotion, vaccines and immunisations. The site also provides links to the two main publications - the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) and the Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal (both full text without subscription / charge). Other links provide growth charts and national, epidemiological data.
Travelers' Health is part of the CDC website and a useful resource for travelers and doctors alike. It provides health information (such as endemic infections and recommendations for immunisation) on specific destinations (region- and country-specific) and contains up-to-date details of recent outbreaks of ID. Further pages provide information on: diseases (including current distribution), vaccinations, safe food and water, arthropod protection and U.S. Travel Medicine Clinics. There is also a section called "Travelling with children", which contains the following: U.S. routine schedule for childhood immunisations, vaccination recommendations for infants and children who are travelling, food and water precautions and travellers' diarrhoea prevention.
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
The NIH is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The "Health Topics" section of this site provides information on a variety of diseases, including recent research, treatment options and support groups and provides links to topic-related agencies (e.g. the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases). Another section outlines details of grants, funding and research training. The "Scientific Resources" section provides links to a number of resources within the NIH - such as the Mammalian Gene Collection, the Human Embryonic Stem Cell Registry and the AIDS Reagent Program.
World Health Organisation (WHO)
This website offers a multitude of useful information such as country-specific epidemiological data, disease outbreaks, data on immunisation and data on notifiable diseases. Another large section - called "Health Topics" - contains fact sheets about a large variety of diseases, policies, press releases and information on current WHO programmes. The WHO Infectious Diseases Site is similarly structured and offers information about anything from African trypanosomiasis to yellow fever.
International Travel and Health - by WHO
This site offers up to date country-specific information about malaria and yellow fever (last updated April 2004). Navigation is simply by clicking on regions / countries of interest on a map. Additional disease maps featured on the site include: Cholera, Dengue, Hepatitis C, Japanese Encephalitis and Poliomyelitis.
Health Information for Overseas Travel - The Yellow Book
This website contains the full online version of the book "Health Information for Overseas Travel" (2001 version) - commonly known as the Yellow Book - backed by the UK Department of Health and the Health Protection Agency. For ease of reference the section for each continental group of countries follows the same format: 1. A list of countries covered in this section, 2. Disease risks: food and water-borne diseases, malaria, other arthropod-borne diseases, diseases of close association, sexually transmitted and blood-borne diseases and finally other hazards. The book contains recommendations applicable to all countries in these continental groups, as well as country by country variations for immunisations - including yellow fever vaccination requirements - and recommendations for malaria chemoprophylaxis. A great resource for anyone involved in Travel Medicine, as well as doctors looking after patients returning from abroad.
Tropical Medicine Central Resource (TMCR)
The website contains the 1700 page textbook "The Imaging of Tropical Diseases, with Epidemiological, Pathological and Clinical Correlation (authors: P. Palmer, M. Reeder). The site is therefore structured like a textbook and includes a structured index of Tropical Diseases. The disease-.specific sections include: an introduction (with definition, synonyms etc.), very detailed information on geographic distribution, epidemiology, pathology, microscopic images, images of vectors and hosts, histology, laboratory and diagnosis, clinical presentation and of course radiological investigations and findings (includes high quality images). An excellent resource for Tropical Medicine - and free of charge.
Malaria Foundation International
The website is run by Malaria Foundation International, a non-profit organisation founded in the U.S. in 1992. The site itself was started in 1995 and is intended to provide a gateway for malaria-related information. Generally, the site appears to be very up-to-date, but a few sections appeared outdated (e.g. malaria-prophylaxis 2000 guidelines). This website provides information on a broad range of topics related to malaria: global malaria initiatives, malaria-related events, literature, glossary, on-line journals and scientific information. It also provides a gateway with links to over 130 malaria-related websites. The layout is functional and navigation is straight forward.
Malaria
Reference Laboratory (MRL)
This laboratory is part of the U.K. Health Protection Agency (HPA), formerly the PHLS, but is situated in the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. The information on this website is rather limited, but does include contact numbers for advice on malaria (treatment and laboratory aspects) and links to the WHO, HPA, LSHTM Malaria Centre and LSHTM Diagnostic Parasitology laboratory. Most importantly, it contains the recent Malaria Prevention Guidelines for British Travellers (via HPA).
The Malaria Journal is published by BioMed Central - and open-access publishing house - in collaboration with the LSTM. All articles can be accessed in full text (free of charge) - both in html and PDF format. The site also allows the user to comment on published articles and e-mail them to colleagues. The "latest news" section provides information on related matters, such as conferences, meetings and recently released literature.
DPDx - Laboratory Identification of Parasites
This website is maintained by CDC's Division of Parasitic Diseases (DPD) and offers two complementary functions: 1. reference and training and 2. diagnostic assistance function. The 'reference and training' section includes concise reviews of parasites and parasitic diseases and a large image library with microscopic images of parasites, histology slides and images displaying the life-cycles of various parasites (all material is free of copyright). The 'diagnostic assistance function' allows the user to obtain advice and/or send digital images of specimens for review by and consultation with the DPD staff (this assistance is free of charge).
The
Atlas of Medical Parasitology (AMP)
This website is run by the Carlo Denegri Foundation (a non-profit organisation) and the University of Torino, Italy. The AMP was created for teaching purposes and as a resource for teaching aids. The atlas contains a large number of images of human parasites, histopathological slides and in some instances radiological images. The database is divided according to systems (e.g. lung parasites, gut parasites etc), which makes navigation straight forward.
Online version of the 2nd edition of the textbook by Alan Granoff and Robert G. Webster. The navigation is not very user-friendly at times, but the contents makes it a useful resource: detailed sections on human, animal and plant viruses (including: history, taxonomy, structure, molecular biology, transmission, symptomatology, serology and epidemiology), virus interaction with the host immune system, instructive figures/graphs and 3D images / animations of viruses.
Microbiology and Immunology Online - University of South Carolina
This site is run by the Medical School of the University of South Carolina. The contents was originally derived from lectures for medical students, but has been expanded subsequently. The contents is presented in a textbook style fashion and the sections are divided into bacteriology, mycology, virology, parasitology and immunology. Although the written contents is not as extensive or elaborate as most textbooks in these fields the site has many appealing features: the layout is pleasant, navigation is straight forward and there are large collections of microscopic images, life-cycle illustrations and even a few real-time teaching videos.
The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (WEHI) / WEHI-TV
WEHI is one of Australia's foremost medical research establishements. The institute puts a considerable effort into the creation of educational resources. WEHI-TV - one of the current projects - provides a range of computer-generated medical illustrations on the topics malaria, diabetes, CNS, cell biology, immune system/host defense and DNA/molecular biology. Even more impressive are the movies (3D animations) on the subjects malaria (mosquito biting, merozoites invading RBC, adhesion to endothelium), Colony Stimulating Factors, DNA (chromosome wrapping, replication, transcription, translation, recombinant DNA). The clips are very instructive and are a great teaching resource (the institute allows the use of the material free of charge).
Dennis Kunkel Microscopy, Inc.
This site offers an extensive library of amazing electron microscopic images of the following categories: insects (vectors), bacteria, protozoans, viruses and fungi as well as some topics related to biology. A search engine allows you to search the library conveniently. Another nice feature are the "animated" images - which look great, but are produced by focusing in on details of a larger image. However, the images are protected by copyright - but usage rights can be obtained from the company by payment of a fee.
Tropical Medicine Organisations
American Society of Parasitologists (ASP)
American
Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH)
Australasian College of Tropical Medicine (ACTM)
British Society for Parasitology (BSP)
Canadian Society for International Health
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Tropenmedizin
und Internationale Gesundheit (DTG)
International Federation for Tropical Medicine
International Society of Travel Medicine
Netherlands Society of Tropical Medicine and International
Health
Österreichische Gesellschaft
für Tropenmedizin und Parasitologie
Royal Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene
(RSTM&H)
Societe de Pathologie Exotique
Tropical Medicine Institutes / Universities
Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine (Hamburg)
Eberhard Karls Universität
Tübingen - Institute for Tropical Medicine
George Washington University -
Dept. of Microbiology and Tropical Medicine (Washington)
Humboldt University Berlin / Charite
- Tropeninstitut Berlin
Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical (Lisboa)
James Cook University - School
of Public Health and Tropical Medicine (Cairns)
John A.
Burns School of Medicine - Department of Tropical Medicine (Hawaii)
Heidelberg University
- Department of Tropical Hygiene and Public Health
Instituto Pedro Kouri - Tropical
Medicine Institute (Havana)
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM)
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
(LSHTM)
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
München - Dept. of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine
Mahidol University - Faculty of Tropical
Medicine (Thailand)
Nagasaki University
- Institute of Tropical Medicine
Prince Leopold Institute of Tropical Medicine
Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (Philippines)
Tulane University School
of Public Health and Tropical Medicine (New Orleans)
University
of Oxford - The Centre for Tropical Medicine
Tropical Medicine Journals
Acta Tropica - abstracts
,
full-text requires subscription, pay-per-article
American
Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene - abstracts,
full-text requires subscription, pay-per-article
Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology -
abstracts, full-text requires
subscription, pay-per-article
Annals of Tropical Paediatrics & International Child Health -
abstracts, some free
full-text articles, pay-per-article
Experimental
Parasitology - abstracts,
full-text requires subscription, pay-per-article
Filaria
Journal - free full-text access
International Journal for Parasitology -
abstracts, full-text
requires subscription, pay-per-article
Journal
of Tropical Pediatrics - abstracts,
full-text requires subscription, pay-per-article
Kinetoplastid
Biology and Disease
-
free full-text access
Malaria
Journal - free full-text
access
Molecular
and Biochemical Parasitology -
abstracts, full-text
requires subscription, pay-per-article
Parasitology
- abstracts,
full-text requires subscription, pay-per-article
Parasitology
International
- abstracts,
full-text requires subscription, pay-per-article
Parasitology Research -
abstracts, full-text
requires subscription, pay-per-article
Transactions
of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene -
abstracts, full-text
requires subscription, pay-per-article
Trends
in Parasitolog (formerly Parasitology Today)
- abstracts, full-text
requires subscription, pay-per-article
Tropical
Medicine and International Health - abstracts,
full-text requires subscription, pay-per-article
Other useful links
PubMed probably requires little explanation - it is the most widely used search-engine/database in Medicine. PubMed is provided by the U.S. National Library and contains 12 million citations from 4600 biomedical journals worldwide. Articles can be searched for according to author, keyword or subject, while MeSH allows the use of categories (indexing system) to find relevant articles.
The Cochrane Collaboration is an international, non-profit organisation providing up-to-date information about the effects of health care. The site contains a large database of evidence based, systematic reviews about treatments and interventions. However, the Cochrane Library itself can only accessed with password.
The British National Formulary - BNF.org
The British National Formulary is a drug compendium used nationwide in the United Kingdom. It provides healthcare providers with accurate, up to date information about a wide range of medications. The website contains the newest version corresponding to the printed version of BNF46. The compendium can be searched according to drug name, component name or indication. Another useful feature - "calculators" - allows to calculate Body Mass Index, Body Surface Index, imperial-metric conversions, creatinine clearance and other parameters.
The National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC)
This website is a comprehensive database of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and related topics produced by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services) in partnership with the American Medical Association (AMA). Key features include: structured abstracts of guidelines, access to full text guidelines/articles and Palm-based PDA downloads. A search engine facilitates the retrieval of the relevant documents. The site contains a large number of investigation- and management-guidelines related to Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Immunology and vaccination.
The Karolinska Institute University Library
The library homepage of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm contains an enormous up to date database with a large number of links to websites related to bacterial infections, mycoses, viral diseases, parasitic diseases and Immunology. Another section contains links related to congenital, hereditary and neonatal diseases. Sections can either be browsed according to topic - alternatively, a search engine facilitates the search according to keywords.
Public Health Image Library by CDC (PHIL)
The PHIL provided by the CDC contains a large number of photos, illustrations and a few audio-visual files. The site contains historical images as well as clinical photos related to paediatric infectious diseases, paediatric immunology, tropical medicine and other specialties. Other images include: histology, cultures, posters (e.g. vaccination campaigns), electron micrographs, images of vectors, x-rays and illustrations. The images are in the public domain and can be accessed and used free of charge.
Interactive Human Atlas by Health Scout
This website features 3D computer animated video sequences, still images and models of pathogens. Although the contents is geared more towards lay persons the contents is entertaining and could be used for teaching purposes. Current topics include: allergies, immunisation, infectious diseases (AIDS, anthrax, herpes, hepatitis, influenza, lyme disease, meningitis, UTI) and numerous paediatric topics (e.g. Down's syndrome, ADHD).
This website is run by Johns Hopkins University. The starting page features a search engine allowing fast retrieval of relevant images. After entering a particular skin condition the engine displays one full-size image, as well as several smaller ones which can also be displayed in full size. All images are accompanied by a short case description and sometimes relevant hyperlinks are displayed simultaneously. Most of the photos are high-resolution images and of impressive quality. Another interesting feature is the Online Dermatology Quiz. This site is a useful resource for Paediatricians (covering conditions such as eczema, seborrhoic dermatitis, haemangioma etc.) as well as Infectious Diseases Specialists (covering scabies, leprosy, cutaneous tuberculosis, fungal infections etc).
Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body
This website features a complete online version of the classic 1918 publication by Henry Gray which includes 1,247 engravings. A search engine facilitates convenient navigation. The access is free of charge.
This website offers a wide range of articles (text-book style) on subjects related to Paediatrics, Infectious Diseases, Immunology and even Tropical Medicine. Most parts can be viewed without subscription/fees, but some features are only accessible to registered (and paying) users. The site also contains recent journal updates, medical image library and online CME. Other useful features are: medical dictionary (Stedman's), Medical Institution Finder (searches for medical schools, societies and organisations, libraries and medical centers) and links to a variety of medical journals.
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