Exposure: a Guide to Sources of Infection - Softcover

Stürchler, Dieter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1555813763 ISBN 13: 9781555813765

Publisher: ASM Press, 2006

Synopsis

A single reference source for those working to identify infectious disease agents. • Offers comprehensive coverage of infections and infectious agents and provides a starting point for compiling a thorough patient exposure history and initiating the appropriate laboratory testing. • Organizes infectious diseases by major exposure groups and subgroups, and offers an international scope of coverage. • Provides current information on sources of infections, transmission risks, and potential infectious agents, and documents infection risks for individuals, at-risk groups, the community at large, and outbreak situations. • Reviews the taxonomy of most agents that infect humans and a select number of agents that infect animals. • Serves as a resource for clinicians, public health professionals, epidemiologists, and clinical microbiologists.

About this title

Synopsis

This book describes infectious diseases by major exposure gropus, detailing sources of infections, transmission risks, and potential agents. The aim is to support clinicians, microbiologists, and epidemiologists in their search for causative agents. presents infections in a systematic review of a broad range of types of exposure provides infection risk estimates for individuals and outbreak situations features an alphabetical agent reference that includes various modes of the spread, risks, and impact of infections offers sample questions for a clinical exposure interview categorizes prions, viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasites by main modes of the spread of infection.

Edition details

• Publisher: ASM Press
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1555813763
• ISBN 13: 9781555813765
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 894