This handbook of tropical medicine includes various topics relevant in disease epidemiology, prevention and treatment. Tropical medicine has surfaced and retained its position as a significant discipline for the analysis of diseases native in the tropic, specifically those diseases which have infectious etiology. And the emergence and reemergence of several tropical pathologies have currently provoked the interest of numerous fields of the analysis of tropical medicine, inclusive of novel infectious agents. Information based on evidence along with ordered updates are required. This book provides up-to-date information on various diseases and conditions of interest in the field. It encompasses pathologies caused by helminths and protozoans. It serves as a great source of information with a broad geographical perspective as the contributions are made by veteran authors from across the globe.