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An introduction to Tropical Disease: A review article
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Piyush Pujara
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Mayur Parmar
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Pratik Rupakar
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Kailash Asawa
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Shrikant Patel
Infectious diseases that either occur uniquely or more commonly in steamy and subtropical regions, are either more widespread in the tropics or extra tricky to prevent or control. The citizens who are the majority exaggerated by these diseases are frequently the poorest populations, whose residence is in remote, rural areas, urban slums or conflict zones. Neglected tropical diseases persevere under circumstances of scarcity and are intense approximately solely in poor populations in the developing world. The designation “tropical diseases” arise at no meticulous date and was slowly merge, as microorganisms came to be recognized as the underlying factor of diseases and had their broadcast mechanisms elucidate. In practice, the term is often taken to pass on to infectious diseases that flourish in burning, moist circumstances, such as malaria, leishmaniasis, schistosomiasis, onchocerciasis, lymphatic filariasis, Chagas disease, African trypanosomiasis, and dengue. A number of the organisms that grounds tropical diseases are bacteria and viruses, conditions that may be recognizable to the majority people as these types of organisms’ grounds sickness common. Fewer well recognized are those more compound organisms usually referred to as parasites. Global warming donates in introducing and scattering more diseases internationally, but in short term; it defiantly would not reason any epidemic circumstances by itself.
Keywords: Global warming, Malaria, Tropical diseases, WHO
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Pujara P, Parmar M, Rupakar P, Asawa K, Patel S. An introduction to Tropical Disease: A review article [Internet]. IP Int J Med Microbiol Trop Dis. 2016 [cited 2025 Oct 06];2(3):81-83. Available from: https://doi.org/
APA
Pujara, P., Parmar, M., Rupakar, P., Asawa, K., Patel, S. (2016). An introduction to Tropical Disease: A review article. IP Int J Med Microbiol Trop Dis, 2(3), 81-83. https://doi.org/
MLA
Pujara, Piyush, Parmar, Mayur, Rupakar, Pratik, Asawa, Kailash, Patel, Shrikant. "An introduction to Tropical Disease: A review article." IP Int J Med Microbiol Trop Dis, vol. 2, no. 3, 2016, pp. 81-83. https://doi.org/
Chicago
Pujara, P., Parmar, M., Rupakar, P., Asawa, K., Patel, S.. "An introduction to Tropical Disease: A review article." IP Int J Med Microbiol Trop Dis 2, no. 3 (2016): 81-83. https://doi.org/