News | 24/09/2025
New publication

Tropical Medicine: Travel Medicine - Global Health

The new German textbook "Tropical Medicine" offers a comprehensive overview of all aspects of tropical diseases that are important for work in tropical and subtropical regions as well as in Europe for the care of long-distance travelers and people with migration experience. Numerous scientists from the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) and the Munich Tropical Institute have enriched the new publication with their expertise.
Cover picture of the textbook "Tropical Medicine": Travel Medicine - Global Health

Contents of the textbook:

  • All relevant infectious tropical diseases (viral and bacterial diseases, mycoses, protozoonoses, helminthoses, parasitoses)
  • Non-infectious tropical diseases
  • Global Health
  • Medicine in the tropics
  • Travel medicine advice, vaccination prophylaxis, medical aspects of flying and diving
  • Preventive occupational medicine
  • Migrant medicine and activities in multicultural contexts
  • Management and differential diagnosis of imported diseases


The editorial team and over 140 authors with personal tropical experience provide reliable first-hand information. The structure of the book is based on the requirements of the model further training for the additional qualification in tropical medicine and is the ideal companion for the "Travel Medicine" course.


This book is suitable for:

  • Doctors who are active in tropical medicine, travel medicine, medicine in the Global South and migration medicine
  • Doctors specializing in microbiology, virology, infectiology and infection epidemiology
  • additional training in "Tropical medicine" and the "Travel medicine" course
About the book (publisher's website)
Originally translated with DeepL