Tropical medicine also is known as international medicine, is the branch of medicine is dedicated to treatment, care and cure of tropical diseases, which are commonly occurring in developing countries due to lack of hygiene, knowledge etc.
Tropical medicine mainly focuses on pharmacological, molecular biological, physiological, pathological and gene studies on treatment and management of alarming infectious diseases such as kala-azar, tsutsugamushi, schistosomiasis, anthracite pestis, plague, malaria, cholera, Ebola hemorrhagic fever, leprosy, Japanese encephalitis, hepatitis.