Infectious and contagious diseases

Synthesizing disparate information into a readily accessible format, this insightful volume presents state-of-the-art reviews on the basic and clinical features of pulmonary diseases in HIV-infected individuals-informing critical decision making as well as suggesting avenues for future research.

This book provides a concise but comprehensive description of human infectious diseases due to microbial pathogens, from a physicians and a microbiologists point of view, as well as providing an understanding of the use of microbial pathogens as biological weapons.

Parasitic infections such as malaria, schistosomiasis, trypanosomiasis and onchoceriasis are the scourge of the tropical countries.

Written by world-renowned experts, this book addresses immunological and molecular methodologies of diagnosis as well as clinical aspects of diseases.

This concise text explores the interactions between pathogens and the immune system.

Disease Surveillance: Technological Contributions to Global Health Security reminds us of the continued vulnerability of the world to contagious infections.

Two-Volume Set:Neurovirology is an interdisciplinary field representing a melding of virology, clinical neuroscience, molecular pathogenesis, diagnostic virology, molecular biology, and immunology.

Vulvovaginal Infections presents new knowledge to help clinicians accurately diagnose and treat their patients and highlights fora researchers remaining unsolved problems anda the most promising areas fora continued investigation.

Dermatologists are often the first medical professionals to see patients with HIV infection, as skin diseases are common in acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.

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.

This fully illustrated text is an essential guide for trainees in Haematology and Medicine studying for higher examinations, as well as for professionals wishing to expand their knowledge or revalidate.

Multiple viruses can be detected concurrently using the Integrated Virus Detection System (IVDS).

This book presents recent findings on the role of oxidative stress in chronic diseases.

The Zaire Ebola virus appeared out of nowhere and then disappeared into thin air after killing scores of humans in West Africa.

Three powerful profiles of men and women whose lives were changed forever by the AIDS epidemic"e;Some of my reasons for wanting to write about AIDS were altruistic, others selfish.

We Are Having This Conversation Now offers a history, present, and future of AIDS through thirteen short conversations between Alexandra Juhasz and Theodore Kerr, scholars deeply embedded in HIV responses.

In 2014 Barbados introduced a vaccine to prevent certain strains of the human papillomavirus (HPV) and reduce the risk of cervical cancer in young women.

In Collective Biologies, Emily A.

AIDS and the Distribution of Crises engages with the AIDS pandemic as a network of varied historical, overlapping, and ongoing crises born of global capitalism and colonial, racialized, gendered, and sexual violence.

While many doctors claim that Lyme disease-a tick-borne bacterial infection-is easily diagnosed and treated, other doctors and the patients they care for argue that it can persist beyond standard antibiotic treatment in the form of chronic Lyme disease.

Defeat was looming for the South--as the Civil War continued, paths to possible victory were fast disappearing.

In its updated and expanded second edition, this helpful guide offers a wealth of information for people living with HIV and for people caring for HIV-positive loved ones.

Your new kidney-friendly diet made easy with meal plans and flavorful recipesWhen you've just been diagnosed with stage 1-4 chronic kidney disease, learning to follow diet restrictions can be a challenge.

Increasing evidence suggests that hidden, low-level inflammation may be the number one cause of modern disease.

Read the devastating story of the Spanish flu - the twentieth century's greatest killer and discover what it can teach us about the current Covid-19 pandemic.

Tuberculosis is an ancient disease, but it's not a disease of history.

man no be God is a story of a willing and driven Canadian doctor who spent his life immersed in the wonderful, complex and interesting lives of the people of western Cameroon.

This book, entitled HIV/AIDS among Industrial Workers & Truck Drivers, is a world classhumanitarian effort.

First published in 1973, Short Textbook of Public Health Medicine for the Tropics, Fourth Edition was designed to provide medical students and other trainees with an introduction to the principles of public health with special reference to the situation in developing countries of the tropics.

To stem the tide of foodborne illness, it is important to understand the source of the problem.

The detection and/or isolation and identification of pathogenic microorganisms is critical for the laboratory diagnosis of infectious diseases.

Nutrition and infection are often at a crossroads, interacting with each other and influencing human health.

Using a multidisciplinary approach, Human Respiratory Viral Infections is set at the level between the definitive reference work and an essential clinical manual.

Preparedness and rigorous planning on community, state, and regional levels are critical to containing the threat of pandemic illness.

Neurovirology is an interdisciplinary field representing a melding of virology, clinical neuroscience, molecular pathogenesis, diagnostic virology, molecular biology, and immunology.

Neurovirology is an interdisciplinary field representing a melding of virology, clinical neuroscience, molecular pathogenesis, diagnostic virology, molecular biology, and immunology.

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The first in a fascinating series.

"La ENFERMEDAD que CURA".

Every twenty minutes, the scientific and medical communities discover yet another disease.

The Influenza Pandemic Response Plan for Office Buildings has been established as an operational guideline for building services designed to respond to a variety of emergency pandemic situations.

This medical guide introduces methods that will help to heal currently incurable diseases, namely, cancers and collagen and allergic diseases.

A doctor grapples with the challenges of mother-and-child health in the developing world.

A doctor grapples with the challenges of mother-and-child health in the developing world.

Although communicable infections have been known to man since the dawn of time, outbreaks of communicable infections still occur regularly.

The latest in the crucial series documenting scientific discoveries at the forefront of HIV and AIDS research!

Nothing experienced in human history, before or since, eclipses the terror, tragedy and scale of the Black Death, the disease which killed millions of people in Medieval Europe.