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Emerging infectious diseases [electronic resource] : a guide to diseases, causative agents, and surveillance / Lisa A. Beltz.

Beltz, Lisa A., 1960-
2011
RA643 .B45 2011eb
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Title
Emerging infectious diseases [electronic resource] : a guide to diseases, causative agents, and surveillance / Lisa A. Beltz.
Author
Beltz, Lisa A., 1960-
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9781118001578 (electronic bk.)
1118001575 (electronic bk.)
9781118001585 (electronic bk.)
1118001583 (electronic bk.)
9781118001592 (electronic bk.)
1118001591 (electronic bk.)
9780470398036 (pbk.)
0470398035 (pbk.)
Published
San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, [2011]
Copyright
©2011
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xvi, 734 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Call Number
RA643 .B45 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
362.196/9 616.9
Summary
"This important resource offers a comprehensive introduction to emerging and reemerging infectious disease, including the underlying mechanisms of microbial emergence, the technology used to detect them and the strategies available to contain them. The author describes the diseases and their causative agents that are major factors in the health of populations the world over. One of the main features of the book is its broad coverage of 25 different emerging infectious diseases, most of which are directly important to those practicing health in the U.S. The book is designed for students in epidemiology, global health, and biology"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Note
Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description
Description based on print version record.
Series
Public health/epidemiology and biostatistics ; 10.
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Emerging infectious diseases.
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1. Infectious diseases past and present
2. Of microbes and men
3. Lyme disease
4. Human ehrlichiosis
5. Bartonella infections
6. Group A streptococci
7. Escherichia coli O157:H7
8. Helicobacter pylori, ulcers, and cancer
9. Legionnaires' disease and Pontiac fever
10. Pulmonary tuberculosis and multidrug resistance
11. Emerging bacterial drug resistance
12. Marburg and Ebola hemorrhagic fevers
13. American hemorrhagic fevers
14. Lassa hemorrhagic fever
15. Dengue fever and dengue hemorrhagic fever
16. The human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immune deficiency syndrome
17. Human herpesvirus 8 and Karposi's sarcoma
18. Hepatitis C
19. Epidemic and pandemic influenza
20. Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome
21. Severe acute respiratory syndrome
22. West Nile disease in the United States
23. Monkeypox
24. Malaria : reemergence and recent successes
25. Babesiosis
6. Cryptosporidiosis
27. Chagas' disease and its emergence in the United States
28. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and other transmissible spongiform encephalopathies
29. The emerging importance of infectious diseases in the immunosuppressed
30. The emerging threat of bioweapons.

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