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Columbia Univ., New York City, NY. Brandon/Hill Medical List minimal-core, first-purchase selection (#313). Provides comprehensive coverage of child infections, including management and treatment strategies. Covers classic clinical infections as well as new, emerging international infections. Previous edition: c1998. DNLM: Communicable Diseases–Child.
Krugman’s Infectious Diseases of Children
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In this edition of the Emerging Infectious Diseases of the 21st Century Series, the editor reviews the research, diagnosis, and treatment of some common infections facing researchers, clinicians and family physicians such as sinusitis, otitis media and pertussis in adults. Recent studies and surveys have shown that these conditions are often over diagnosed and treated unnecessarily with antibiotics. The approach and guidelines for diagnosis and management are reviewed in this volume. Other more complicated but less common conditions challenging internists, clinical infectious disease consultants and other specialists are also reviewed (i.e. meningitis, ventilator associated pneumonia, sepsis, hepatitis C, B, etc.).
Emerging Issues and Controversies in Infectious Disease
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Emerging infectious diseases may be defined as diseases being caused by pathogens only recently recognized to exist. This group of diseases is important globally, and the experience of the last 30 years suggests that new emerging diseases are likely to bedevil us. As the global climate changes, so changes the environment which can support not only the pathogens, but also their vectors of transmission. This expands the exposure and effects of infectious disease and therefore, the importance of widespread understanding of the relationship between public health and infectious disease.
This work brings together chapters which explain reasons for the emergence of these infectious diseases. These include the ecological context of human interactions with other humans, with animals which may host human pathogens, and with a changing agricultural and industrial environment, increasing resistance to antimicrobials, the ubiquity of global travel, and international commerce.
* Features the latest discoveries related to influenza with a newly published article by Davidson Hamer and Jean van Seventer
* Provides a listing of diseases which were rare which have become resurgent or spread their geographic distribution are ‘re-emergent’
* Highlights dengue and malaria, as well as agents such as West Nile and other arbovirus that have spread to new continents causing widespread concerns
* Includes discussions of climate influencing the spread of infectious disease, political and societal aspects
Public Health and Infectious Diseases
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Emerging infectious diseases may be defined as diseases being caused by pathogens only recently recognized to exist. This group of diseases is important globally, and the experience of the last 30 years suggests that new emerging diseases are likely to bedevil us. As the global climate changes, so changes the environment which can support not only the pathogens, but also their vectors of transmission. This expands the exposure and effects of infectious disease and therefore, the importance of widespread understanding of the relationship between public health and infectious disease.
This work brings together chapters which explain reasons for the emergence of these infectious diseases. These include the ecological context of human interactions with other humans, with animals which may host human pathogens, and with a changing agricultural and industrial environment, increasing resistance to antimicrobials, the ubiquity of global travel, and international commerce.
* Features the latest discoveries related to influenza with a newly published article by Davidson Hamer and Jean van Seventer
* Provides a listing of diseases which were rare which have become resurgent or spread their geographic distribution are ‘re-emergent’
* Highlights dengue and malaria, as well as agents such as West Nile and other arbovirus that have spread to new continents causing widespread concerns
* Includes discussions of climate influencing the spread of infectious disease, political and societal aspects
Public Health and Infectious Diseases
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In 1901 Emil von Behring received the first Nobel Prize in medicine for serum therapy against diphtheria, a disease that killed thousands of infants annually. Diphtheria serum was the first major cure of the bacteriological era & its development generated novel procedures for testing, standardizing, & regulating drugs. Since the intro. of antibiotics, Behring & his work have largely been forgotten. In the first English-language scientific biography of Behring, Derek S. Linton seeks to restore Behring s reputation. He emphasizes Behring s seminal contributions to the study of infectious disease, the formation of modern immunology, & innovative research on specific remedies & vaccines against deadly microbial infections. Behring s research program is placed within the context of Imperial Germany s vibrant scientific culture. This biography explores his complex relations to the rival bacteriological schools of Robert Koch in Berlin & Louis Pasteur in Paris, the emergent German pharmaceutical industry, & the institutionalization of experimental therapeutic research. It also analyzes Behring s collaborations & controversies with leading med. researchers. The second part of the vol. contains translations of 13 key articles by Behring & his associates on infectious diseases, immunology, drug testing, & therapeutics spanning 30 years of his remarkable scientific career.
Emil Von Behring: Infectious Disease, Immunology, Serum Therapy
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Coppetts Wood Hospital, London, U.K. Clinical textbook of infectious diseases as they occur in hospitals and communities. For the student. Introduces the range of diseases affecting each system and relevant pathogens. Discusses microbiology and epidemiology of pathogens, diagnosis, and more. DNLM: Communicable Diseases.
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Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) is a new molecular biological technique which has important clinical applications in terms of laboratory diagnosis. It has potential for diagnosis of genetic disease and investigation of forensic medicine, but at the moment the chief clinical use is in diagnosis of bacterial and viral infections, where it is faster, cheaper and more accurate. This volume is comprehensive as both a laboratory manual and a reference. It covers lab procedures and techniques in sufficient detail to enable the reader to set up and use PCR protocols, and reviews all current diagnostic applications in microbiology.
Pcr-Based Diagnostics in Infectious Disease
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Tufts Univ., Boston, MA. Reference for current diagnosis and treatment of common and uncommon infections seen in medical practice. More than 500 topics are arranged alphabetically and cover the basics, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up. Two-page, quick-reference format. DNLM: Communicable diseases–Handbooks.
The 5 Minute Infectious Diseases Consult
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The last four decades of human history have seen the emergence of an unprecedented number of ‘new’ infectious diseases: the familiar roll call includes AIDS, Ebola, H5N1 influenza, hantavirus, hepatitis E, Lassa fever, legionnaires’ and Lyme diseases, Marburg fever, Rift Valley fever, SARS, and West Nile. The outbreaks range in scale from global pandemics that have brought death and misery to millions, through to self-limiting outbreaks of mainly local impact. Some outbreaks have erupted explosively but have already faded away; some grumble along or continue to devastate as now persistent features in the medical lexicon; in others, a huge potential threat hangs uncertainly and worryingly in the air. Some outbreaks are merely local, others are worldwide.
This book looks at the epidemiological and geographical conditions which underpin disease emergence. What are the processes which lead to emergence? Why now in human history? Where do such diseases emerge and how do they spread or fail to spread around the globe? What is the armoury of surveillance and control measures that may curb the impact of such diseases? But, uniquely, it sets these questions on the modern period of disease emergence in an historical context. First, it uses the historical record to set recent events against a much broader temporal canvas, finding emergence to be a constant theme in disease history rather than one confined to recent decades. It concludes that it is the quantitative pace of emergence, rather than its intrinsic nature, that separates the present period from earlier centuries. Second, it looks at the spatial and ecological setting of emergence, using hundreds of specially-drawn maps to chart the source areas of new diseases and the pathways of their spread. The book is divided into three main sections: Part 1 looks at early disease emergence, Part 2 at the processes of disease emergence, and Part 3 at the future for emergent diseases.
Infectious Diseases: A Geographical Analysis: Emergence and Re-emergence
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This book provides a systematic introduction to the fundamental methods and techniques and the frontiers of — along with many new ideas and results on — infectious disease modeling, parameter estimation and transmission dynamics. It provides complementary approaches, from deterministic to statistical to network modeling; and it seeks viewpoints of the same issues from different angles, from mathematical modeling to statistical analysis to computer simulations and finally to concrete applications.
Modeling and Dynamics of Infectious Diseases