Microbial Zoonoses and Sapronoses

• Main Authors: Hubálek, Zdenek (Author), Rudolf, Ivo (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2011.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Infectious diseases.; Medicine & Public Health.; Infectious Diseases.

This book presents the state of art in the field of microbial zoonoses and sapronoses. It could be used as a textbook or manual in microbiology and medical zoology for students of human and veterinary medicine, including Ph.D. students, and for biomedicine scientists and medical practitioners and sp...

Table of Contents:

• 1
• Introduction
• 2. Types of human disease by source of the infectious agent
• 3. A history of zoonoses and sapronoses and research into them
• 4. The infection process in zoonoses and sapronoses
• 4.1. Infectious agent
• 4.2. Infection entry
• 4.3. Infection course and host defence
• 5. The epidemic process in zoonoses and sapronoses
• 5.1. Characteristics of the epidemic process
• 5.2. External factors in the epidemic process
• 5.3. Natural focality of diseases
• 5.4. Epidemiological examination in the focus of an infectious disease
• 5.5. Epidemiological surveillance
• 5.6. The control of zoonoses and sapronoses
• 6. Haematophagous arthropods as vectors of diseases
• 6.1. Characteristics of transmission of infections by arthropods
• 6.2. A survey of haematophagous vectors of microbial diseases
• 6.3. A list of microbial agents transmitted by vectors
• 7. Vertebrates as hosts and reservoirs of zoonotic microbial agents
• 7.1. Mammals (Mammalia)
• 7.2. Birds (Aves)
• 7.3. Reptiles (Reptilia)
• 7.4. Amphibians (Amphibia)
• 7.5. Fishes (Pisces)
• 8. Systematic survey of zoonotic and sapronotic microbial agents
• 8.1. Prions
• 8.2. Viruses
• 8.3. Bacteria
• 8.4. Fungi
• 8.5. Protozoa
• 8.6. Other eucaryotic microorganisms
• 9. Literature
• 10. Index.