Emerging Zoonoses A Worldwide Perspective /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Fong, I. W. (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Σειρά: Emerging Infectious Diseases of the 21st Century
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Medical microbiology.; Virology.; Infectious diseases.; Medicine & Public Health.; Infectious Diseases.; Medical Microbiology.

The book begins with a review of zoonotic pandemics of the past: the “Black Death” or bubonic plague of the Middle Ages, the Spanish Influenza pandemic (derived from avian influenza) of the early 20th century, to the more modern pandemic of AIDS/HIV infection, which originated in Africa from primate...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1.Pandemic zoonoses from the Middle-Ages to the 20th Century
• 2.Animals and mechanisms of disease transmission
• 3.Swine and avian influenza outbreaks in recent times
•  4.Emerging animal coronaviruses: First SARS and now MERS
• 5.Emergence of new tickborne infections
• 6.Chikungunya virus and Zika virus expansion: an imitation of Dengue virus
• 7.Ebola and Marburg: out of Africa
• 8.Hepatitis E: a zoonosis
• 9.Zoonotic malaria: Plasmodium knowlesi
• 10.Zoonotic streptococci: A focus on Streptocccus suis
• 11.New and emerging parasitic zoonoses.