Some non-infective diseases endemic in the West Indies.
Trop Geogr Med
; 30(1): 5-21, 1978 Mar.
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| ID: mdl-150086
ABSTRACT
The West Indies, and associated parts of the Caribbean area, are extremely diverse and afford interesting examples for the study of geographical medicine. Short accounts are given of some conditions whose aetiologies have been relatively recently clarified, including vomiting sickness of Jamaica, veno-occlusive disease of Jamaica, blackfat pulmonary fibrosis of Guyana, and epidemic acute glomerulonephritis of Trinidad. The aetiology of tropical sprue, which is common in Puerto Rico and absent from Jamaica remains to be explained although a hypothesis has been put forward. Further work is needed to establish the geographical distribution of idiopathic cardiomegaly and the spinal neuropathies and associated syndromes of retrobulbar neuritis and sensorineural deafness before their aetiologies can be understood.
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MEDLINE
Métodos Terapéuticos y Terapias MTCI:
Terapias_biologicas
Asunto principal:
Medicina Tropical
Tipo de estudio:
Etiology_studies
País/Región como asunto:
America do sul
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Caribe
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Caribe ingles
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Guyana
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Jamaica
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Puerto rico
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Trinidad y tobago
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Trop Geogr Med
Año:
1978
Tipo del documento:
Article