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Emerging infectious diseases : trends and issues
- Title
- Emerging infectious diseases : trends and issues / edited by Felissa R. Lashley and Jerry D. Durham.
- Publication
- New York : Springer Pub. Co., [2007], ©2007.
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- Description
- xx, 591 pages; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 1. An introduction to emerging and reemerging infectious diseases / L. Scott Chavers and Sten H. Vermund -- 2. Microbial resistance to antibiotics / Stephan Harbarth -- 3. Categories and highlights of significant current emerging infectious diseases / Felissa R. Lashley -- 4. Cholera / Laurie J. Singel and Felissa R. Lashley -- 5. Cryptosporidiosis / Jeanne Beauchamp Hewitt -- 6. Cyclospora cayetanensis : arriving via Guatemalan raspberries / Felissa R. Lashley -- 7. Dengue fever / Barbara J. Holtzclaw -- 8. Ebola, Marburg, Lassa, and other hemorrhagic fevers / Daniel G. Bausch -- 9. Escherichia coli 0157 : H7 / Donna Tartasky -- 10. Emerging fungal infections / David S. Perlin -- 11. Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome / James E. Cheek and Amy V. Groom -- 12. Hepatitis C / Victoria Davey -- 13. HIV / AIDS / Inge B. Corless -- 14. Avian influenza A (H5N1) / James Mark Simmerman and Timothy M. Uyeki -- 15. Legionellosis : Legionnaires disease and Pontiac fever / Christina R. Phares and Matthew R. Moore -- 16. Lyme disease, ehrlichiosis, anaplasmosis, and babesiosis / Felissa R. Lashley -- 17. Malaria / Barbara A. Goldrick -- 18. Metapneumo virus / Bernadette G. van den Hoogen, Albert D. M. E. Osterhaus and Ron A. M. Fouchier -- 19. Monkeypox and other emerging orthopoxvirus infections / Kurt D. Reed -- 20. Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis / Neil W. Schluger -- 21. Prion diseases : Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and other transmissible spongiform encephalopathies / Felissa R. Lashley -- 22. SARS : from zoonosis to pandemic threat / Bart L. Haagmans and Albert D. M. E. Osterhaus -- 23. West Nile virus / Felissa R. Lashley -- 24. The role of infection in some cancers and chronic diseases / Felissa R. Lashley -- 25. Travel, recreation, and emerging infectious diseases / Felissa R. Lashley -- 26. Immunocompromised persons and emerging infectious diseases / Victoria Davey -- 27. Bioterrorism in the context of infectious diseases / Miriam Cohen -- 28. Behavioral and cultural aspects of transmission and infection / Barbara Jeanne Fahey -- 29. Into the future / C. J. Peters -- App. A. Emerging/reemerging infectious diseases by organism / Felissa R. Lashley -- App. B. Emerging/reemerging infectious diseases by modes of transmission / Felissa R. Lashley -- App. C. Prevention of emerging/reemerging infectious diseases / Felissa R. Lashley.
- ISBN
- 9780826102508 (hardback)
- 0826102506 (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2006102115
- OCLC
- ocm77476593
- 77476593
- SCSB-5345883
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries