Infectious and contagious diseases

This fully updated third edition of the classic text, widely cited as the most important and useful book for health engineering and disease prevention, describes infectious diseases in tropical and developing countries, and the effective measures that may be used against them.

One of the first comparative reflections of its kind, this book examines the challenges that young men face when trying to grow up in societies where violence is the norm.

The Advances in Virus Research series covers a diverse range of in-depth reviews providing a valuable overview of the current field of virology.

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.

Published since 1953, Advances in Virus Research covers a diverse range of in-depth reviews providing a valuable overview of the current field of virology.

How did the universe and life begin and what are the threats to people and the environment in a pandemic?

This handbook is the first dealing with the discovery of drugs directed against apicomplexan parasites.

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

This volume covers the latest advances in the mechanisms of pathogenesis of the HIV-1 virus on target cells.

In a digital world where the public's voice is growing increasingly strong, how can health experts best exert influence to contain the global spread of infectious diseases?

Healers Abroad:Americans Responding to the Human Resource Crisis in HIV/AIDS calls for the federal government to create and fund the United States Global Health Service (GHS) to mobilize the nation's best health care professionals and other highly skilled experts to help combat HIV/AIDS in hard-hit African, Caribbean, and Southeast Asian countries.

This book explains how, and why, economics has been applied to a terrible pandemic, using a range of examples mostly drawn from the region most affected, sub-Saharan Africa.

This volume examines the complex medical, social, ethical, financial, and scientific problems arising from the AIDS epidemic and offers dozens of public policy and research recommendations for an appropriate national response to this dread disease.

Contemporary feminist theory has moved into posthuman terrains as feminist theorists utilise human/nonhuman relations and a motley crew of nonhuman entities to reinvigorate feminist critique of nature/culture dichotomies.

Modern transportation allows people, animals, and plantsand the pathogens they carryto travel more easily than ever before.

Germs and governance brings together leading historians, practitioners and policy makers to consider the past, present and future of hospital infection control.

To truly understand AIDS and sexual behaviour we must Possess the necessary knowledge and factual information acquired through formal education and teaching, self-learning and reading, and the personal experience of ourselves and others.

Viral hemorrhagic fevers have captured the imagination of the public and made their way into popular books and movies by virtue of their extreme virulence and mysterious origins.

The year 2012 marks the tenth anniversary of the announcement of the genome sequence of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum and that of its mosquito vector Anopheles.

AIDS (autoimmune deficiency syndrome) is a devastating human disease caused by HIV, a human immunodeficiency virus, which may be transmitted by either sexual or other contacts in which body fluids are exchanged.

Early detection is essential to the control of emerging, reemerging, and novel infectious diseases, whether naturally occurring or intentionally introduced.

"e;This new work updates the highly regarded first edition.

What does it mean to think of HIV/AIDS policy in a critical manner?

This book is an up-to-date reference on some of the major global health issues and the role of nutrition in their prevention and management.

Mathematical models are increasingly being used to examine questions in infectious disease control.

Most books on hematopathology are neoplastic in scope and offer little non-neoplastic content.

This book offers an accessible and up-to-date reference on primate zoonoses.

A new generation of technological vaccines protect against many infectious diseases.

The second edition of Microbiology of Waterborne Diseases describes the diseases associated with water, their causative agents and the ways in which they gain access to water systems.

The United States has spent two productivedecades implementing a variety of prevention programs.

This volume is a compilation of recent research work on the problem of osteoporosis in Asia.

Covering the theory and practice of non-insecticidal control of insect vectors of human disease, this book provides an overview of methods including the use of botanical biocides and insect-derived semiochemicals, with an overall focus on integrated vector management strategies.

Although measles is a preventable disease, today cases are on the rise in the United States because of falling vaccination rates.

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.

Immunology of Infection, 3e, edited by two leading experts in the field, presents the most appropriate up-to-date experimental approaches in the detail required for modern microbiological research.

Music at the Edge invites the reader to experience a complete music therapy journey through the words and music of the client, and the therapist's reflections.

This book and video collection provide a practical guide to the clinical neurological examination, an essential tool in the diagnosis of neurological conditions encountered in the outpatient clinic and hospital ward.

In this enlightening book, you'll explore the life struggles and adaptations leading up to and following HIV infection in young Americans.

The AIDS Pandemic explores the ways in which HIV/AIDS has, and continues to transform the wide range of related disciplines it touches.

Entre las enfermedades infecciosas existe un grupo complejo de enfermedades provocadas por una gran diversidad de agentes infecciosos patogenos para el ser humano que tienen en comun su transmision a traves de los animales de compania, entre otros.

Influenza pandemics overwhelm health care systems with thousands or hundreds of thousands of sick patients, as well as those worried they may be sick.

Attention and Responsibility in Global Health shows the construction of health through what is neglected and how the label of neglect is used to make the case that a shift in attitudes towards tropical diseases is based on changing policy practices of health and disease.

To effectively treat patients diagnosed with drug-resistant (DR) tuberculosis (TB) and protect the population from further transmission of this infectious disease, an uninterrupted supply of quality-assured (QA), second-line anti-TB drugs (SLDs) is necessary.

Vaccines protect people from disease by preparing the body to respond to an infection.

This authoritative and comprehensive book makes the reader familiar with the processes of bringing orphan drugs to the global market.

Planning for an influenza pandemic, whether it occurs in the near or distant future, will need to take into account many constantly evolving factors.

There is an urgent need to uncover new therapies that will protect against malaria, as the parasite becomes increasingly resistant to available drugs and this book offers insights into three interrelated aspects of the malaria-infected erythrocyte: * The transport of solutes into and out of the infected cell and the use of specific trafficking pathways in drug targeting * The traffic of proteins produced by the intracellular parasite as an essential process for the biogenesis of transport systems.