tropical medicine

noun

1. the branch of medicine dealing with the study and treatment of diseases occurring in the tropics.

Example Sentences

The effectiveness of Cambodia’s surveillance system can be credited in part to one man, Dr. Ly Sovann, an apparently unsleeping tropical medicine specialist who runs the Cambodian Center for Disease Control.

From Seattle Times

“Code Red is not even a hot enough color for this report, ” said Stanford University tropical medicine professor Dr. Michele Barry, who wasn’t part of the study team.

From Seattle Times

Dr. Nicholas White, a professor of tropical medicine at Mahidol University in Bangkok, described the new paper’s conclusions about emerging malaria resistance as “unequivocal.”

From Seattle Times

“You can’t stop everything for very long,” said Dr. Christopher A. Sanford, a family physician with a background in public health and tropical medicine.

From Seattle Times

Initial hubris gave way to frustration as researchers realized that vaccines against malaria would be difficult to produce, says Nicholas White, who studies tropical medicine at Mahidol University in Bangkok.

From Scientific American