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.

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 Di...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Front Matter
• Historical Overview of Global Infectious Diseases and Geopolitics / Francis E G Cox
• Detection of Infectious Diseases Using Unofficial Sources / Lawrence C Madoff, David O Freedman
• Microbes on the move: Prevention, Curtailment, Outbreak / Patricia Schlagenhauf, Giles Poumerol, Francisco Santos-O'Connor
• Diagnostic Tests and Procedures / Larry I Lutwick, Marc Mendelson, Eskild Petersen
• East Africa: Madagascar and Indian Ocean Islands / Philippe Gautret, Philippe Parola
• Eastern Africa / Andreas Neumayr, Christoph Hatz
• Central Africa / Gerd D Burchard, Stephan Ehrhardt
• North Africa / Philippe Gautret, Nadjet Mouffok, Philippe Parola
• Southern Africa / Marc Mendelson, Olga Perovic, Lucille Blumberg
• West Africa / Joanna S Herman, Peter L Chiodini
• Eastern Asia / Susan MacDonald, Yasuyuki Kato, Annelies Wilder-Smith
• South Central Asia / Prativa Pandey, Holly Murphy, Ashish Bhalla
• South-Eastern Asia / Daniel H Paris, Nicholas J White
• Western Asia and the Middle East: Part 1 / Eyal Leshem, Eli Schwartz
• Western Asia and the Middle East: Part 2 / Jaffar A Al-Tawfiq, Ziad A Memish
• Eastern Europe / Natalia Pshenichnaya, Malgorzata Paul
• Northern Europe / Birgitta Evenḡ, Audrone Marcinkute, Eskild Petersen
• Southern Europe / Francesco Castelli, Fabio Buelli, Pier Francesco Giorgetti
• Western Europe / Peter J de Vries
• Caribbean / Jana I Preis, Larry I Lutwick
• Central America / Julius B Salamera, Larry I Lutwick
• South America / Rodrigo Nogueira Angerami, Luiz Jacintho da Silva
• Northern America / Barbra M Blair, Philip R Fischer, Michael Libman, Lin H Chen
• Australia and New Zealand / Karin Leder, Joseph Torresi, Marc Shaw
• Oceania / Karin Leder, Joseph Torresi, Marc Shaw
• Arctic and Antarctica / Anders Koch, Michael G Bruce, Karin Ladefoged
• The Immunosuppressed Patient / Brian T Montague, Terri L Montague, Maria D Mileno
• Emerging Infections / Mary Elizabeth Wilson
• Migration and the Geography of Disease / Rogelio L̤pez-V̌lez, Francesca F Norman, Još-Antonio P̌rez-Molina
• Climate Change and the Geographical Distribution of Infectious Diseases / David Harley, Ashwin Swaminathan, Anthony J McMichael
• Abbreviations
• Index.