Emerging Infections
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Emerging Infections

  1. 513 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Emerging Infections

About this book

Emerging Infections is the first volume of the new Biomedical Research Reports Series, which will provide annual updates on hot topics of interest to a broad spectrum of the biomedical research community. This book provides state-of-the-art reviews of new and reemerging bacterial, viral, and parasitic infections, their life cycles, host defense evasion strategies, and clinical features. It includes the history of infectious disease outbreaks, population and evolutionary biology of human pathogens, and current epidemiological models that describe how ecological and demographic changes produce new epidemics. - Provides reviews on hot topics of interest to the biomedical research community - Editor and contributors are renowned international experts - Covers the major established pathogens as well as the new and sensational--such as mad cow disease, hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, pathogenic E. Coli, and flesh-eating bacteria

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Information

Publisher
Academic Press
Year
1998
Print ISBN
9780124259300
eBook ISBN
9780080530857
Topic
Medicine
Subtopic
Immunology

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Emerging Infections: Biomedical Research Reports
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Chapter 1. Introduction to Emerging Infectious Diseases; Stemming the Tide
  6. Chapter 2. Analytical Theory of Epidemics
  7. Chapter 3. Persisting Problems in Tuberculosis
  8. Chapter 4. Mobile Genetic Elements and the Evolution of New Epidemic Strains of Vibrio cholerae
  9. Chapter 5. Pathogenic Eschen'chia coil O157:H7: A Model for Emerging Infectious Diseases
  10. Chapter 6. The Revival of Group A Streptococcal Diseases, with a Commentary on Staphylococcal Toxic Shock Syndrome
  11. Chapter 7. Lyme Disease
  12. Chapter 8. Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
  13. Chapter 9. Influenza: An Emerging Microbial Pathogen
  14. Chapter 10. The Emergence of Dengue: Past, Present, and Future
  15. Chapter 11. The AIDS Epidemic: Demographic Aspects, Population Biology, and Virus Evolution
  16. Chapter 12. Korean Hemorrhagic Fever and Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome: Two Examples of Emerging Hantaviral Diseases
  17. Chapter 13. Ebola Virus: Where Does It Come from and Where Is It Going?
  18. Chapter 14. Arthropod–borne Pathogens: Issues for Understanding Emerging Infectious Diseases
  19. Chapter 15. "New" Intestinal Parasitic Protozoa
  20. Chapter 16. Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies of Man and Animals
  21. Chapter 17. Malaria. A Global Threat
  22. Index