Cholera Outbreaks

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Nair, G. Balakrish (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Takeda, Yoshifumi (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Σειρά: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology, 379
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Medical microbiology.; Vaccines.; Infectious diseases.; Epidemiology.; Biomedicine.; Medical Microbiology.; Infectious Diseases.; Vaccine.

The most feared attribute of the human pathogen Vibrio cholerae is its ability to cause outbreaks that spread like wildfire, completely overwhelming public health systems and causing widespread suffering and death. This volume starts with a description of the contrasting patterns of outbreaks caused...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Cholera Outbreaks in the Classical Biotype Era
• Cholera Outbreaks in the El Tor Biotype Era and the Impact of the New El Tor variants
• Cholera Outbreaks in India
• Cholera Outbreaks in South East Asia
• Cholera Outbreaks in Africa
• The Cholera Outbreak in Haiti: Where and How Did it Begin?- Role of Phages in the Epidemiology of Cholera
• Circulation and Transmission of Clones of Vibrio Cholerae During Cholera Outbreaks
• Modelling Cholera Outbreaks
• Genomic Science in Understanding Cholera Outbreaks and Evolution of Vibrio cholerae as a Human pathogen
• When, How and Where Can Oral Cholera Vaccines be Used to Interrupt Cholera Outbreaks?.