Essential Health Links: Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases/Fulltext E-Journals, E-Books and E-Newsletters

Note: The E-Journals, E-Books and E-Newsletters listed in this section are only a few examples of many that are available on this topic - others can be found via the links listed at Fulltext E-Journals.


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Action Against Infection: a Newsletter for WHO and its Partners
Emerging Infectious Diseases
Illustrated Notes on Tropical Medicine
La Santé Tropicale sur Internet

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Action Against Infection: a Newsletter for WHO and its Partners  (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
This newsletter contains news releases and reports on clinical practices, epidemiology and prevention of infectious diseases. The newsletter is available in pdf only. http://www.who.int/infectious-disease-news/newsletter/index.html

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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Updated: 29 January 2008