Emerging Infections (Volume 1) (Biomedical Research Reports, Volume 1) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0124259308 ISBN 13: 9780124259300

Publisher: Academic Press Inc, 1998

Synopsis

Aimed at the biomedical research community, this volume provides reviews and new and re-emerging bacterial, viral and parasitic infections, their life cycles, host defense evasion strategies, and clinical features. It includes the history of infectious disease outbreaks, population and evolutionary biology of human pathogens, and current epidemiological models that describe how ecological and demographic changes produce new epidemics.

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Review:

Praise for the casebound book
"...a splendid collection of essays, all of them good science and full of information, surprise, and thrill... well written and well edited..."
--BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL
"...highly recommended in that it provides the reader with an easy-to-read, yet detailed look into the leading emerging infectious diseases of the twentieth century."
--SIM NEWS
"This is an outstanding first volume in a new series entitled Biomedical Research Reports that contains comprehensive articles from eminent international researchers that discuss major new and reemerging pathogens... Each topic is current and well written and has an extensive and recent list of citations. Figures and tables appropriately reinforce the text. As a whole, this volume offers a concise, detailed overview of the continuing evolution of infectious diseases... This book is highly recommended as a comprehensive and important text for any university or departmental library collection, as well as the personal libraries of individuals who work with infectious diseases in either the research or clinical care setting."
--DOODY'S PUBLISHING REVIEWS

From the Back Cover:

Emerging Infections offers state-of-the-art coverage of new and reemerging bacterial, viral, and parasitic infections, their life cycles, host defense evasion strategies, and clinical features. This volume, with contributions from eminent international researchers, includes the history of infectious disease outbreaks, population and evolutionary biology of human pathogens, and current epidemiological models describing how ecological and demographic changes produce new epidemics. Articles detail the major established pathogens as well as the new and sensational.
Highlights
* Persisting problems in tuberculosis
* Pathogenic Escherichia coli 0157:H7
* The revival of Group A Streptococcal diseases
* Antibiotic resistance in bacteria
* Korean hemorrhagic fever and Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome
* Ebola virus: where does it come from and where is it going?

About this edition

• Publisher: Academic Press Inc
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0124259308
• ISBN 13: 9780124259300
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 513
• Editor: Krause Richard M.