Infectious diseases : a geographic guide

Infectious diseases : a geographic guide / [edited by] Eskild Petersen, Lin H. Chen, Patricia Schlagenhauf-Lawlor.

The second edition of this concise and practical guide describes infections in geographical areas and provides information on disease risk, concomitant infections (such as co-prevalence of HIV and tuberculosis) and emerging bacterial, viral and parasitic infections in a given geographical area of th...

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Other Authors: Petersen, Eskild (Editor), Chen, Lin H. (Editor), Schlagenhauf-Lawlor, Patricia (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2017.
Edition:Second edition.
Subjects:
Communicable diseases.
Epidemics.
Epidemiology > Methodology.
Medical geography.
Pandemics.
epidemics.
pandemics.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
MEDICAL > Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL > Internal Medicine.
Communicable diseases
Epidemics
Epidemiology > Methodology
Medical geography
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Historical overview of global infectious diseases and geopolitics / Francis EG Cox, Frank J Bia
  • Nontraditional infectious diseases surveillance systems / Davidson H Hamer, Kamran Khan, Matthew German, Lawrence C Madoff
  • Air travel
  • which infectious disease control measures are worthwhile? / Karen J Marienau
  • Infectious illnesses on cruise and cargo ships / Joanna J Regan, J Scott Vega, Clive M Brown
  • Microbes on the move: prevention, required vaccinations, curtailment, outbreak / Patricia Schlagenhauf-Lawlor, Giles Poumerol, Francisco Santos-O'Connor
  • Diagnostic tests and procedures / Eskild Petersen, Tom Boyles
  • Central Africa / Gerd D Burchard, Martin P Grobusch
  • East Africa / Philippe Gautret, Philippe Parola
  • Eastern Africa / Andreas Neumayr, Christoph Hatz
  • North Africa / Philippe Gautret, Nadjet Mouffok, Philippe Parola
  • Southern Africa / Marc Mendelson, Olga Perovic, Lucille Blumberg
  • West Africa / Boubacar Maiga, Patrick Ayeh-Kumi
  • East Asia / Bin Cao, Fei Zhou, Mikio Kimura
  • South Central Asia / Holy Murphy, Gulzhan Abuova, Prativa Pandey
  • South-east Asia / Daniel H Paris, Nicholas J White
  • Western Asia and the Middle East / Jaffar A Al-Tawfiq, Seif S Al-Abri, Ziad A Memish
  • Eastern Europe / Natalia Pshenichnaya, Malgorzata Paul, Alexander Erovichenkov
  • Northern Europe / Birgitta Evengard, Audrone Marcinkute, Eskild Petersen
  • Southern Europe / Francesco Castelli, Androula Pavli, Pier Francesco Giorgetti
  • Western Europe / Peter J Vries, Eric Caumes
  • The Caribbean / Elizabeth A Talbot, Laura E Shevy
  • Central America / Larry I Lutwick, Alfonso J Rodriguez-Morales
  • South America / Rodrigo Nogueira Angerami, Luiz Jacintho Silva, Alfonso J Rodriguez-Morales
  • Northern America / Barbra M Blair, Philip R Fischer, Michael Libman, Lin H Chen
  • Australia, New Zealand / Karin Leder, Joseph Torresi, Marc Shaw
  • Oceania / Karin Leder, Joseph Torresi, Marc Shaw
  • Arctic and Antarctica / Anders Koch, Michael G Bruce, Karin Ladefoged
  • The immunosuppressed patient / Brian T Montague, Christopher M Salas, Terri L Montague, Maria D Mileno
  • Emerging infections / Mary E Wilson
  • Migration and the geography of disease / Rogelio López-Vélez, Francesca F Norman, José-Antonio Pérez-Molina
  • Climate change and the geographical distribution of infectious diseases / Ashwin Swaminathan, Elvina Viennet, Anthony J McMichael, David Harley.

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