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Title
Infectious diseases / Lester M. Shulman, editor.
Edition
Second edition.
ISBN
9781071624630 (electronic bk.)
1071624636 (electronic bk.)
9781071624623
1071624628
Published
New York, NY : Springer, 2022.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (black and white, and color).
Item Number
10.1007/978-1-0716-2463-0 doi
Call Number
RC111
Dewey Decimal Classification
616.9
Summary
This volume on Infectious Diseases in an Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology (ESST) addresses the needs of health care providers and policy makers as well as scientists and engineers. Most of chapters in this volume deal with infectious diseases that directly affect humans, including the detailed characterization of specific pathogens, how they reproduce, how they are transmitted, and the means available to control, eliminate, or eradicate them. In this revised and updated second edition, the number of human infectious diseases covered has been significantly expanded. Other new chapters deal with current leading edge technologies for the diagnosis of pathogens; surveillance including environmental and syndromic surveillance for pathogens; requirements for quality assurance, quality control and the need for biological standards and controls to sustain high quality diagnosis and surveillance; the use of big data for personalized medicine; modeling infectious diseases; zoonotic and vector borne diseases; disease prevention with antibiotics, antivirals and vaccines; and factors that affect ecological balances leading to emergence of new diseases such as climate change and deforestation. Finally, infectious diseases that affect livestock and culture of plants for food, comfort and beauty are also addressed, since we must also consider them when discussing sustainability of humans in our ecosystem.
Note
Includes index.
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Description based on print version record.
Series
Encyclopedia of sustainability science and technology series.
From previous spin-off: 1. Infectious Diseases, Introduction
2. Antibiotics for Emerging Pathogens
3. HIV/AIDS Global Epidemic
4. Human Bacterial Diseases from Ocean
5. Infectious Disease Modeling
6. Infectious Diseases, Climate Change Effects on
7. Infectious Diseases, Vibrational Spectroscopic Approaches to Rapid Diagnostics
8. Malaria Vaccines
9. Marine and Freshwater Fecal Indicators and Source Identification
10. Polio and Its Epidemiology
11. Tropical Health and Sustainability
12. Tuberculosis, Epidemiology of
13. Waterborne Diseases of the Ocean, Enteric Viruses
14. Waterborne Infectious Diseases, Approaches to Control
15. Waterborne Parasitic Diseases in Ocean
Index.