Infectious and contagious diseases

The book's purpose is to help community-based primary care physicians and nurses, and laboratory-based microbiologists, better understand each other's requirements in collecting and interpreting specimens, and thus to improve the quality of patient care, while saving resources and reducing unnecessary antibiotic prescription.

Diseases have a history, and understanding that history helps us understand how best to treat and control disease today.

A comprehensive review of research concerning genetic susceptibility to infectious diseases.

A comprehensive account of HIV and AIDS, the management of the disease and potential vaccines.

Virus Entry, Volume 104, the latest release in the Advances in Virus Research series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on plant virus cell-to-cell entry, plant virus entry via insect transmission, VSV/Rabies virus entry, Papovavirus entry, New approaches to study fusion proteins, Hantavirus receptors, Gamma Herpesvirus entry, and many other interesting topics.

Neurocutaneous syndromes and hemangiomas encompass a substantial proportion of congenital or hereditary disorders, and present themselves through variable clinical features.

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Emerging infectious diseases may be defined as diseases being caused by pathogens only recently recognized to exist.

The worldwide impact of HIV/AIDS is well recognized.

Telling the story of a clinical trial testing an innovative gel designed to prevent women from contracting HIV, Negotiating Pharmaceutical Uncertainty provides new insight into the complex and contradictory relationship between medical researchers and their subjects.

This book contains four selected chapters on infectious diseases, covering topics from prevention to control.

The science underpinning avian immunology is crucial to understanding basic immunological principles and the exceptional features of the avian immune system, as different strategies birds have adopted can provide important evolutionary insights.

Immunopathology, Diagnosis and Treatment of HPV induced Malignancies focuses on the human papilloma virus infection and associated cancers.

The Culture of AIDS in Africa enters into the many worlds of expression brought forth across this vast continent by the ravaging presence of HIV/AIDS.

Providing a broad overview of the microbial pathogens associated with hospital-acquired human illness, Techniques for the Study of Hospital Acquired Infection examines the cost-effective use of laboratory techniques in nosocomial infectious disease epidemiology and control.

This reader offers some of the most important writing to date from the science of COVID-19 and what science says about its spread and social implications.

Advances in Virus Research, Volume 106, the latest in the series, contains new, informative updates on the topic.

The current worldwide AIDS crisis is about 20 years old, but the disease itself is much older.

The field of HCV has changed perhaps faster than any other field in medicine.

Rather than existing in a planktonic or free-living form, evidence indicates that microbes show a preference for living in a sessile form within complex communities called biofilms.

The enormous genetic flexibility of bacteria jeopardizes the usefulness of currently available antibiotics, and requires new approaches to antibiotic discovery and development.

Thirty years after AIDS was first recognized, the American South constitutes the epicenter of the United States' epidemic.

Tuberculosis (TB) kills approximately 4,500 people worldwide every day.

The Power of Plagues presents a rogues' gallery of epidemic- causing microorganisms placed in the context of world history.

The number of people infected with HIV or living with AIDS is increasing at unprecedented rates as various scientists, organizations, and institutions search for innovative solutions to combating and preventing the disease.

A complete and concise diagnosis and therapy for infectious diseases associated with skin disease.

After thirty five years, Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett's Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases, 8th Edition is still the reference of choice for comprehensive, global guidance on diagnosing and treating the most challenging infectious diseases.

This authoritative work provides a thorough overview of the COVID-19 pandemic that swept the globe in 2020, devoting particular attention to its impact on all aspects of American society.

Long before the "e;germ theory"e; of disease was described, late in the nineteenth century, humans knew that climatic conditions influence the appearance and spread of epidemic diseases.

In the Psychological Insights for Understanding COVID-19 series, international experts introduce important themes in psychological science that engage with people's unprecedented experience of the pandemic, drawing together chapters as they originally appeared before COVID-19 descended on the world.

Written by leading authorities, this reference provides quick access to essential information on specific antibiotics, major clinical infections, selected pathogens, and infections in long-term elderly-care facilities.

STDs in the United States: A Reference Handbook provides information about sexually transmitted diseases and infections and their impact on both an individual and a societal level.

This book introduces charnolophagy (CP) as energy-driven, lysosomal-dependent mitochondrial inclusion-specific pleomorphic Charnoly body (CB) autophagy (ATG) involving free radical-induced Ca2+ dyshomeostasis, ?

Bacterial Endotoxic Lipopolysaccharides provides an up-to-date, two-volume review of the latest information regarding bacterial lipopolysaccharide structure and activities.

A complete and concise diagnosis and therapy for infectious diseases associated with skin disease.

The global response to HIV/AIDS has been a major aspect of global health and development policy over the last three decades.

Listeria monocytogenes is a foodborne pathogen transmitted to humans through ingested food.

This practical book covers all aspects of the biology of malaria vectors, with notes on the vectors of dengue.

With the vast majority of healthcare and social workers identifying as women, the vanguard of the COVID-19 response was distinctly gendered.

There is growing acceptance that the progress delivered under the Millennium Development Goal target for drinking water and sanitation has been inequitable.

Viruses are a huge threat to agriculture.

Globalization is by no means a new phenomenon; transcontinental trade and the movement of people date back at least 2,000 years, to the era of the ancient Silk Road trade route.

This is a clinically-oriented, user-friendly text on the diagnosis and management of infectious disease.

With new infectious agents, antibiotics, and instances of antimicrobial resistance constantly on the horizon, this field is an ever growing discipline that requires constant vigilance.

A wide-ranging reference text on the effect of trauma and disasters, for health professionals and research workers.

As the 2020 global lockdown became a universal strategy to control the COVID-19 pandemic, social distancing triggered a massive reliance on online and cyberspace alternatives and switched the world to the digital economy.

Understanding the Behavioral and Medical Impact of Long COVID serves to expand the research around the illness in order to enable health care researchers and practitioners to address the questions that are imperative to individuals suffering from this condition.