
Rabies
Scientific Basis of the Disease and Its Management
Description
Key Features
- Edited by renowned researchers in this subject and has gathered a team of experts to detail the science, treatment, and control of rabies
- Completely revised, the Fourth Edition presents rabies as a re-emergent infection with emphasis on a global perspective of the disease
- Includes new chapters the evolution of the rabies virus and on modeling rabies control and includes many full-color figures that highlight important information
Readership
Anyone involved in diagnosing, treating, controlling and preventing this disease, including: scientists, rabies researchers, academic researchers, public health advisors, animal health professionals, epidemiologists, physicians, veterinarians
Table of Contents
1. A history of rabies - The foundation for global canine rabies elimination
2. Rabies virus
3. Evolution of rabies virus
4. Epidemiology
5. Molecular epidemiology
6. Rabies in terrestrial animals
7. Bat rabies
8. Human disease
9. Pathogenesis
10. Pathology
11. Immunology
12. Laboratory diagnosis of rabies
13. Measures of rabies immunity
14. Human and animal vaccines
15. Next generation of rabies vaccines
16. Public health management of humans at risk
17. Therapy of human rabies
18. Dog rabies and its control
19. Rabies control in wild carnivores
20. Modeling canine rabies virus transmission dynamics
21. Strategies for the elimination of dog-mediated human rabies by 2030
22. Future developments and challenges
Product details
- No. of pages: 732
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2020
- Published: May 5, 2020
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780128205723
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780128187050