Infectious diseases : a geographic guide /

• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Petersen, Eskild, Chen, Lin H., Schlagenhauf-Lawlor, Patricia
• Μορφή: Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
• Θέματα: Communicable diseases.; Epidemics.; Epidemiology > Methodology.; Medical geography.; MEDICAL > Epidemiology.; MEDICAL > Health Risk Assessment.; Communicable Diseases > epidemiology.; Disease Outbreaks.; Epidemiologic Methods.; Topography, Medical > methods.; Electronic books.
• Φυσική περιγραφή: 1 online resource (xxi, 457 pages) : illustrations, map
• Βιβλιογραφία: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9781119971641; 1119971640; 9781119971610; 1119971616
• DOI: 10.1002/9781119971641

This concise and practical guide describes infections in geographical areas and provides information on disease risk, concomitant infections (such as co-prevalence of HIV and tuberculosis) and emerging bacterial, viral and parasitic infections in a given geographical area of the world. Infectious Diseases: A Geographic Guide is divided according to United Nations world regions and addresses geographic disease profiles, presenting symptoms and incubation periods of infections. Each chapter contains a section on the coverage of the childhood vaccination programs in the countries included in that.