Emerging infectious diseases a guide to diseases causative agents and surveillance 1st Edition by Lisa A Beltz ISBN 0470398035 9780470398036

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ISBN 10: 0470398035

ISBN 13: 9780470398036 

Author: Lisa A. Beltz 

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Emerging Infectious Diseases offers an introduction to emerging and reemerging infectious disease, focusing on significant illnesses found in various regions of the world. Many of these diseases strike tropical regions or developing countries with particular virulence, others are found in temperate or developed areas, and still other microbes and infections are more indiscriminate.

This volume includes information on the underlying mechanisms of microbial emergence, the technology used to detect them, and the strategies available to contain them. The author describes the diseases and their causative agents that are major factors in the health of populations the world over.

The book contains up-to-date selections from infectious disease journals as well as information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Health Organization, MedLine Plus, and the American Society for Microbiology.

Perfect for students or those new to the field, the book contains Summary Overviews (thumbnail sketches of the basic information about the microbe and the associated disease under examination), Review Questions (testing students’ knowledge of the material), and Topics for Further Discussion (encouraging a wider conversation on the implications of the disease and challenging students to think creatively to develop new solutions).

This important volume provides broad coverage of a variety of emerging infectious diseases, of which most are directly important to health practitioners in the United States.

Table of contents:

Tables and Figures vii
Preface xv
The Author xvii
Acknowledgments xviii

Part 1: Introduction to Emerging Infectious Diseases
Chapter 1: Infectious Diseases Past and Present 3
Chapter 2: Of Microbes and Men 27

Part 2: Bacterial Infections
Chapter 3: Lyme Disease 55
Chapter 4: Human Ehrlichiosis 75
Chapter 5: Bartonella Infections 97
Chapter 6: Group A Streptococci 117
Chapter 7: Escherichia coli O157:H7 139
Chapter 8: Helicobacter pylori, Ulcers, and Cancer 161
Chapter 9: Legionnaires’ Disease and Pontiac Fever 181
Chapter 10: Pulmonary Tuberculosis and Multidrug Resistance 205
Chapter 11: Emerging Bacterial Drug Resistance 225

Part 3: Viral Infections
Chapter 12: Marburg and Ebola Hemorrhagic Fevers 247
Chapter 13: American Hemorrhagic Fevers 273
Chapter 14: Lassa Hemorrhagic Fever 293
Chapter 15: Dengue Fever and Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever 313
Chapter 16: The Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome 335
Chapter 17: Human Herpesvirus 8 and Kaposi’s Sarcoma 365
Chapter 18: Hepatitis C 389
Chapter 19: Epidemic and Pandemic Influenza 409
Chapter 20: Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome 431
Chapter 21: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome 455
Chapter 22: West Nile Disease in the United States 475
Chapter 23: Monkeypox 499

Part 4: Parasitic Infections
Chapter 24: Malaria: Reemergence and Recent Successes 523
Chapter 25: Babesiosis 547
Chapter 26: Cryptosporidiosis 565
Chapter 27: Chagas’ Disease and Its Emergence in the United States 585

Part 5: Infectious Proteins
Chapter 28: Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease and Other Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies 609

Part 6: Special Issues in Infectious Diseases
Chapter 29: The Emerging Importance of Infectious Diseases in the Immunosuppressed 635
Chapter 30: The Emerging Threat of Bioweapons 667

Glossary 701
Index 723

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