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Emerging Infectious Diseases (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
This is a peer-reviewed electronic journal of the Centers for
Disease Control, U.S. It provides information on emerging
infections in three broad categories: perspectives (factors
that predispose to outbreaks), synopses (summaries of
specific diseases or syndromes) and dispatches (brief
laboratory and epidemiological reports).
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/index.htm
Illustrated Lecture Notes on Tropical Medicine (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
The site contains a complete full-text reference work on
tropical medicine and travel health, with lots of color
pictures. Maintained by Dr. Erwin Van den Enden, Institute of
Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium.
http://content-e.itg.be/content-e/pub_ITG/Illustrated_lecture_notes_on_Tropical_Medicine_1169817124568/index.htm
La Santé Tropicale sur Internet (Focus on Low-Income Countries) (French only)
This is a French-language site, run by a France-based
publisher NG Com
Santé Tropicale. The site is dedicated to
health issues in francophone Africa and Maghreb. It provides
access to pdf files of 1800 African medical articles from
three of its journals:
Médecine d'Afrique Noire,
Médecine du Maghreb, and
Odontologie-Stomatologie Tropicale. The site includes an
email discussion forum and links to other francophone African
health web sites.
www.santetropicale.com
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