
Public Health and Infectious Diseases
Description
Key Features
- Features the latest discoveries related to influenza with a newly published article by Davidson Hamer and Jean van Seventer
- Provides a listing of rare diseases that have become resurgent or spread their geographic distribution and are re-emergent
- Highlights dengue and malaria, as well as agents such as West Nile and other arboviruses that have spread to new continents causing widespread concerns
- Includes discussions of climate influencing the spread of infectious disease and political and societal aspects
Readership
Table of Contents
Part I: Overview and Syndrome Chapters; Bacterial Infections, Childhood infectious diseases, Intestinal infections, Foodborne illnesses, Waterborne diseases, Hepatitis viral, Pneumonia; Part II: Bacteria and Rickettsia, Botulism, Tetanus, Diphtheria, Brucellosis, Escherichia coli, Cholera and other Vibrioses, Shigellosis, Salmonella, Typhoid fever, Helicobacter Pylori, Rickettsia, Streptococcal diseases, Chlamydia (Trachoma &STI), Leprosy, Syphilis; Part III: Parasites, intro to Parasitic diseases, Ectoparasites and Arthropod vectors, Protozoan diseases (various), Helminthes diseases (various); Part IV: Viruses, Arboviruses, Dengue, Dengue Hemorhagic Fever, Herpes Viruses, Measles, Mumps, Poliomyelitis, Rabies, Influenza, Respiratory Syncytial Virus, Rhinoviruses, Rubella, Yellow Fever
Product details
- No. of pages: 512
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier 2010
- Published: March 9, 2010
- Imprint: Elsevier
- eBook ISBN: 9780123815071
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780123815064
About the Editor in Chief
Davidson Hamer
Affiliations and Expertise
About the Editors
Jeffrey Griffiths
James Maguire
Kristian Heggenhougen
Affiliations and Expertise
Stella Quah
Affiliations and Expertise
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