Emerging Infectious Diseases : A Guide to Diseases, Causative Agents, and Surveillance.
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| Author / Creator: | Beltz, Lisa A. |
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| Imprint: | Hoboken : Wiley, 2011. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (754 pages) |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Public Health/Epidemiology and Biostatistics Public Health/Epidemiology and Biostatistics. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10011960 |
Table of Contents:
- CONTENTS; Tables and Figures; Preface; The Author; Acknowledgments; PART I: INTRODUCTION TO EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES; Chapter 1: Infectious Diseases Past and Present; Chapter 2: Of Microbes and Men; PART II: BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; Chapter 3: Lyme Disease; Chapter 4: Human Ehrlichiosis; Chapter 5: Bartonella Infections; Chapter 6: Group A Streptococci; Chapter 7: Escherichia coli O157:H7; Chapter 8: Helicobacter pylori, Ulcers, and Cancer; Chapter 9: Legionnaires' Disease and Pontiac Fever; Chapter 10: Pulmonary Tuberculosis and MultidrugResistance
- Chapter 11: Emerging Bacterial Drug ResistancePART III VIRAL INFECTIONS; Chapter 12: Marburg and Ebola Hemorrhagic Fevers; Chapter 13: American Hemorrhagic Fevers; Chapter 14: Lassa Hemorrhagic Fever; Chapter 15: Dengue Fever and Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever; Chapter 16: The Human Immunodeficiency Virus and AcquiredImmune Deficiency Syndrome; Chapter 17: Human Herpesvirus 8 and Kaposi's Sarcoma; Chapter 18: Hepatitis C; Chapter 19: Epidemic and Pandemic Influenza; Chapter 20: Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome; Chapter 21: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
- Chapter 22: West Nile Disease in the United StatesChapter 23: Monkeypox; PART IV PARASITIC INFECTIONS; Chapter 24: Malaria: Reemergence and Recent Successes; Chapter 25: Babesiosis; Chapter 26: Cryptosporidiosis; Chapter 27: Chagas' Disease and Its Emergence in the UnitedStates; PART V INFECTIOUS PROTEINS; Chapter 28: Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease and Other TransmissibleSpongiform Encephalopathies; PART VI SPECIAL ISSUES IN INFECTIOUS DISEASES; Chapter 29: The Emerging Importance of Infectious Diseasesin the Immunosuppressed; Chapter 30: The Emerging Threat of Bioweapons; Glossary; Index