No germs allowed! : how to avoid infectious diseases at home and on the road /

No germs allowed! : how to avoid infectious diseases at home and on the road /

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Author / Creator:Weinberg, Winkler G., 1952-
Imprint:New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©1996.
Description:1 online resource (x, 285 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:English
Subject:
Travel -- Health aspects.
Communicable diseases -- Prevention.
Infection.
Infection Control -- methods -- popular works.
Travel -- popular works.
Communicable diseases -- Prevention.
Infection.
Travel -- Health aspects.
Electronic books.
Popular Work.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11100020
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ISBN:0585029261
9780585029269
0813522803
0813522811
9780813522807
9780813522814
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-276) and index.
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Other form:Print version: Weinberg, Winkler G., 1952- No germs allowed!. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©1996 0813522803
Table of Contents:
  • Tables and figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: At risk
  • Part 1. The infections of daily living
  • 1. The common cold
  • 2. Strep throat and other strep infections
  • 3. Urinary tract infections
  • 4. Infections of the skin
  • Part 2. Infections you get from your environment
  • 5. Lyme disease and other tickborne infections
  • 6. Food poisoning
  • 7. Health hazards of travel
  • 8. Pneumonia and Legionnaires' disease
  • Infections you get from others
  • 9. Tuberculosis
  • 10. Sexually transmitted diseases
  • 11. Hepatitis
  • 12. HIV infection and AIDS
  • Part 3. Persons with unique risks
  • 13. Special persons and special situations
  • 14. How to avoid infections if you have HIV
  • 15. If you are pregnant
  • 16. In the hospital
  • Part 4. Twenty-first-century infections
  • 17. Emerging infections
  • 18. Bioterrorism
  • Appendixes
  • A. Vaccination schedules
  • B. Antibiotics to prevent infective endocarditis
  • C. Rabies
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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