Infectious and contagious diseases

Microbial threats, including endemic and emerging infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance, can cause not only substantial health consequences but also enormous disruption to economic activity worldwide.

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Zoonotic diseases represent one of the leading causes of illness and death from infectious disease.

Biofilms in Infection and Disease Control: A Healthcare Handbook outlines the scientific evidence and rationale for the prevention of infection, the role biofilms play in infection control, and the issues concerning their resistance to antimicrobials.

Brucellosis presents an overview of the conditions associated with the subject matter.

The purpose of this book is to analyze and determine how a host responds to a blood stage malaria infection.

The Oxford Textbook of Medicine: Infection is selected from the infection section of the renowned Oxford Textbook of Medicine, Fifth Edition.

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Viruses, bacteria, fungi, protozoa, helminths and various agents may infect the central nervous system.

It is estimated that 90% of those who are HIV positive are in employment.

The essential guide to controlling and managing today s communicable diseases The fourth edition of Communicable Disease Control and Health Protection Handbook offers public health workers of all kinds an authoritative and up-to-date guide to current protocols surrounding the identification and control of infectious diseases.

Drug dependence is a complex, chronic, relapsing condition that is often accompanied by severe health, psychological, economic, legal, and social consequences.

Advances in Cancer Research provides invaluable information on the exciting and fast-moving field of cancer research.

Master the principles of clinical infectious disease in 30 days or less!

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 Oxford Handbook of Genitourinary Medicine, HIV, and Sexual Health returns for a third edition, fully updated to encompass the changes in the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV, British HIV Association, and Faculty of Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare guidelines and recommendations.

Medical problems of the male genitals are extremely common and male health is assuming a new importance as men are increasingly recognising the need to look after their bodies.

This book explores the innovations, disruptions and changes that are required to adapt in a fast-evolving landscape due to the extraordinary circumstances triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic.

With specially commissioned introductions from international experts, the Psychological Insights for Understanding COVID-19 series draws together previously published chapters on key themes in psychological science that engage with people's unprecedented experience of the pandemic.

Cultures of Plague opens a new chapter in the history of medicine.

Malaria is one of the most common infectious diseases and an enormous public health problem.

For more than 50 years, low-cost antimalarial drugs silently saved millionsof lives and cured billions of debilitating infections.

Fenner and White's Medical Virology, Fifth Edition provides an integrated view of related sciences, from cell biology, to medical epidemiology and human social behavior.

This book considers the response to the HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa by examining family planning programs and HIV prevention efforts.

The field of global health is expanding rapidly.

Completely revised and updated, the new edition of this groundbreaking text integrates basic virology with pathophysiological conditions to examine the connection between virology and human disease.

This reference book offers an in-depth analysis of the fundamental aspects, causative agents, and clinical manifestations of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases of viral origin (EID-REID).

Fungal diseases have contributed to death and disability in humans, triggered global wildlife extinctions and population declines, devastated agricultural crops, and altered forest ecosystem dynamics.

An estimated 2 billion people, one third of the global population, are infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium that causes tuberculosis.

An authoritative guide to the epidemiology, incidence, testing and diagnosis and management of HIV and AIDS.

Evidence shows that nutritional supports can help maintain health in the HIV-infected patient by replacing lost nutrients, compensating for nutritional damage done by the retrovirus-induced immunodeficiency, and stimulating the remaining immune system and cells for better host defenses.

This remarkable book tells you everything you need to know about vaccines.

This book examines the complex relationships between young masculinities and sexual health within Southern Africa.

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.

Although adopting global norms often improves domestic systems of governance, domestic obstacles to norm diffusion are frequent.

Proper nutrition is essential to individuals with HIV/AIDS.

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

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

The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 killed as many as fifty million people worldwide and affected the vast majority of Canadians.

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.

This definitive volume presents the clinical and pathological features of bronchopulmonary dysplasia, a disease that accounts for the majority of long-term hospitalizations, slow growth, and recurrent early childhood respiratory ailments that are common in low-birth-weight newborns.

In October 1999, the Forum on Emerging Infections of the Institute of Medicine convened a two-day workshop titled "e;International Aspects of Emerging Infections.

This is a comprehensive reference that includes the basic science, clinical features, imaging, pathology and treatment of specific viral entities affecting the central nervous system (CNS).

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

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In May 1993, a cluster of cases of a lethal disease among healthy young people brought the attention of the world to the southwestern deserts.

This reference text is a must have for any current or future clinicians or students of microbiology.

This book covers pathophysiology of fever, the general approach to the febrile patient, and offers a systematic, in-depth discussion regarding the differential diagnosis of unexplained fever.

This is the only book to cover toxoplasmosis of animals and humans thoroughly in one single source.