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Emerging infectious diseases a guide to diseases, causative agents, and surveillance

Lisa A Beltz 1960-

San Francisco Jossey-Bass c2011

Localização: FSP - Faculdade de Saúde Pública    (616.9 139 )(Acessar)

  • Título:
    Emerging infectious diseases a guide to diseases, causative agents, and surveillance
  • Autor: Lisa A Beltz 1960-
  • Assuntos: Emerging infectious diseases; Communicable Diseases, Emerging; Public health; Social Science; Medicine; Health; MEDICAL -- Public Health; MEDICAL -- Infectious Diseases; HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Contagious; DOENÇAS INFECCIOSAS; DOENÇAS TRANSMISSÍVEIS; SAÚDE PÚBLICA; MEDICINA; EPIDEMIOLOGIA; VIGILÂNCIA EPIDEMIOLÓGICA; DOENÇAS (CONTAMINAÇÃO); SAÚDE MUNDIAL; BIOLOGIA
  • Notas: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  • Descrição: Infectious diseases past and present -- Of microbes and men -- Lyme disease -- Human ehrlichiosis -- Bartonella infections -- Group A streptococci -- Escherichia coli O157:H7 -- Helicobacter pylori, ulcers, and cancer -- Legionnaires' disease and Pontiac fever -- Pulmonary tuberculosis and multidrug resistance -- Emerging bacterial drug resistance -- Marburg and Ebola hemorrhagic fevers -- American hemorrhagic fevers -- Lassa hemorrhagic fever -- Dengue fever and dengue hemorrhagic fever -- The human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immune deficiency syndrome -- Human herpesvirus 8 and Karposi's sarcoma -- Hepatitis C -- Epidemic and pandemic influenza -- Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome -- Severe acute respiratory syndrome -- West Nile disease in the United States -- Monkeypox -- Malaria : reemergence and recent successes -- Babesiosis -- Cryptosporidiosis -- Chagas' disease and its emergence in the United States -- Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and other transmissible spongiform encephalopathies -- The emerging importance of infectious diseases in the immunosuppressed -- The emerging threat of bioweapons.
    "This important resource offers a comprehensive introduction to emerging and reemerging infectious disease, including the underlying mechanisms of microbial emergence, the technology used to detect them and the strategies available to contain them. The author describes the diseases and their causative agents that are major factors in the health of populations the world over. One of the main features of the book is its broad coverage of 25 different emerging infectious diseases, most of which are directly important to those practicing health in the U.S. The book is designed for students in epidemiology, global health, and biology"--
  • Títulos relacionados: Série:Public health/epidemiology and biostatistics 10
  • Editor: San Francisco Jossey-Bass
  • Data de criação/publicação: c2011
  • Formato: (xvi, 734 p.) ill., maps.
  • Idioma: Inglês

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