Modeling the Transmission and Prevention of Infectious Disease

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hurst, Christon J. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Advances in Environmental Microbiology, 4
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Medical microbiology.; Health promotion.; Microbiology.; Environmental health.; Life Sciences.; Medical Microbiology.; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.; Environmental Health.

This volume focuses on blocking disease transmission and the ecological perspective of pathogens and pathogenic processes. The chapters on blocking transmission cover the environmental safety of space flight, biocides and biocide resistance, as well as infection control in healthcare facilities. The...

Table of Contents:

• Preventing infectious diseases in spacecraft and space habitats
• Bacterial resistance to hospital disinfection
• Disinfection of microbial aerosols
• The role of the indigenous gut microbiota in human health and disease
• Buruli ulcer: Case Study of a Neglected Tropical Disease
• Coccidioidomycosis: increasing incidence of an 'orphan' disease in response to environmental changes
• Antibiotic resistant environmental bacteria and their role as reservoirs in disease
• Population dynamics, invasion and biological control of environmentally growing opportunistic pathogens
• Of ducks and men - ecology and evolution of a zoonotic pathogen in a wild reservoir host.