Infectious and contagious diseases

Emerging and re-emerging pathogens pose several challenges to diagnosis, treatment, and public health surveillance, primarily because pathogen identification is a difficult and time-consuming process due to the novel nature of the agent.

Now in its sixth edition, Infectious Diseases in Obstetrics and Gynecology remains the only book to comprehensively cover infectious diseases in both obstetrics and general gynecology.

Drawing on a growing consensus about the importance of community representation and participation for ethical research, community engagement has become a central component of scientific research, policy-making, ethical review, and technology design.

In the care of pediatric patients, infectious diseases comprise over 50% of the clinical diagnoses.

In the years since the end of apartheid, South Africans have enjoyed a progressive constitution, considerable access to social services for the poor and sick, and a booming economy that has made their nation into one of the wealthiest on the continent.

Representing Ebola provides readers with a critical legal analysis of the recent West African Ebola Outbreak.

First discovered in 1976, and long regarded as an easily manageable virus affecting isolated rural communities, Ebola rocketed to world prominence in 2014 as a deadly epidemic swept through Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia in West Africa.

This is a definitive and comprehensive account of the human herpes viruses.

The Ebola virus disease represented a grave crisis for Liberia.

'The growth of public health courses aimed at undergraduates has created a new need for textbooks that are appropriate and stimulating.

With the mounting public interest in disease, health, physicians, nurses, and hospitals, it is necessary to study problems in the field with a view to constructive improvement.

Sheds new light on what the WHO described as "e;the single most devastating infectious disease outbreak ever recorded,"e; focusing on social control, gender, class, religion, national identity, and military medicine's reactions to thepandemic.

Provides an introduction to the cell types, chemical mediators, and general mechanisms of the host''s first response to invasion.

This book highlights the role of vitamins in preventing or reducing the pathogenesis or treatment of infectious viral diseases based on current ongoing research and past work.

This volume brings together environmental and human perspectives, engages with both historians and scientists, and, being mindful that environments and disease recognize no boundaries, includes studies that touch on Europe, the wider Mediterranean world, Asia, Africa, and the Americas.

Textiles and Their Use in Microbial Protection: Focus on COVID-19 and Other Viruses provides readers with vital information about disinfection mechanisms used in textile applications in the fight against dangerous microbes and viruses.

Infectious Diseases: Smart Study Guide for Medical Students, Residents, Physicians and Clinical Pharmacists attempts to consolidate knowledge and information into a step-by-step process that would be easy to understand, remember, and apply in a clinical setting.

What You Need to Know About the Flu offers readers a concise yet in-depth look at the influenza virus and the illness it causes, with both a historical perspective and a contemporary discussion of treatment, prevention, and controversies.

Based on papers presented at the XI International Congress for Tropical Medicine and Malaria, this publication provides an authoritative evaluation of treatment and control of helminth parasite infections.

Advances in Virus Research, Volume 98, the latest in a series first published in 1953, covers a diverse range of in-depth reviews, providing a valuable overview of the current field of virology.

The bestselling environmental health text, with all new coverage of key topics Environmental Health: From Global to Local is a comprehensive introduction to the subject, and a contemporary, authoritative text for students of public health, environmental health, preventive medicine, community health, and environmental studies.

Diagnostic and Treatment Algorithms in every chapter Box of Signs/Symptoms and Differential Diagnosis Boxed element for when to refer Medical Treatment includes drugs and dosages in tabular formatIcons to lead the reader to the content they need quickly Clinical COLOR photos and clear, didactic diagrams on every page

This book explores the thoroughly human dimension of the health care and prevention responses to the HIV crisis in the UK, and the impact that such initiatives had on the progression of the epidemic.

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This book explores the normalization of HIV and AIDS, reflecting upon the intended and unintended consequences of the multifarious "e;AIDS industry.

Providing an analysis of the benefits and limitations of every available drug, vaccine and immunotherapy used to control and prevent antiviral diseases, this unique and genuinely comprehensive text is unlike any other current reference of its kind.

The third edition of this widely used book has been substantially updated to take into account changes since the last edition.

This work in the field of tropical medicine provides an in-depth review in the development of vaccines against some of the most debilitating tropical diseases.

Women now account for one third of the ten million people with HIV infection worldwide.

Admittedly, the world and the nature of forced migration have changed a great deal over the last two decades.

Provides an introduction to the cell types, chemical mediators, and general mechanisms of the host''s first response to invasion.

It is not the presence of microorganisms, but their interaction with patients that determines their influence on wound healing.

Since the first edition that was published in 1998 we have seen manychanges in ophthalmology from advancements in laser surgery to new techniques in cataract surgery.

Effectively Assess Intervention Options for Controlling Infectious DiseasesOur experiences with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), and Ebola virus disease (EVD) remind us of the continuing need to be vigilant against the emergence of new infectious diseases.

Mayo Clinic Infectious Diseases Case Review is a comprehensive collection of case studies covering a wide array of infectious diseases.

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

Unlike any other source on the subject, this reference provides an up-to-date account of fungal syndromes in immunocompromised patients and provides expert descriptions of their clinical manifestations and settings in which they cause illness-covering the pros and cons of current and emerging diagnostic measures, techniques to incorporate new diagn

Legionella pneumophila, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Mycobacterium avium are water-borne opportunistic premise plumbing pathogens (OPPPs) that cause human disease of great economic cost.

This practical guide summarizes and evaluates knowledge in the field of cerebellar disorders.

The book is intended for readers who are interested in learning about the use of computer-based modelling of the COVID-19 disease.

The Complement FactsBook contains entries on all components of the Complement System, including C1q and Lectins, C3 Family, Serine Proteases, Serum Regulators of Complement Activation, Cell Surface Proteins, and Terminal Pathway Proteins.

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a disproportionate impact on the 1.

In the past few decades, there have been great advances in the phylogenetic classification of infectious diseases of man.

This book offers a cross-national analysis of contemporary issues and challenges for the governing of urban regions.

Malaria is one of the most important "e;emerging"e; or "e;resurgent"e; infectious diseases.

This book makes a psycho-social study of HIV-AIDS.

Now in its sixth edition, Infectious Diseases in Obstetrics and Gynecology remains the only book to comprehensively cover infectious diseases in both obstetrics and general gynecology.

In 1882, Robert Koch identified tuberculosis as an infectious bacterial disease.

This book deals with the emerging concept that certain pathogenic bacteria and viruses, when infecting people with cancer, actively fight tumors, allowing their regression.