Edited by S.R. Palmer, Head of Profession, Epidemiology, Health Protection Agency, Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Cardiff University, UK, Lord Soulsby, Emeritus Professor of Animal Pathology, University of Cambridge, UK, Paul Torgerson, Professor of Veterinary Epidemiology, University of Zürich, Switzerland, and David W. G. Brown, Head of Department, Virus Reference Department, Health Protection Agency, London, UK
Professor Palmer is one of the UK's leading public health figures. He is the former Regional Epidemiologist for Wales and was appointed to the Mansel Talbot Chair in Epidemiology and Public Health at the former University of Wales College of Medicine in 1998. He has led field investigations of many zoonoses outbreaks and has published widely on communicable disease control. In addition to being Head of Department of Epidemiology, Statistics and Public Health at Cardiff University, in April 2003, he joined the new UK Health Protection Agency initially as the founding director of the Chemical Hazards and Poisons Division and Director of the HPA's, Local and Regional Services. Then he was Head of Profession for Epidemiology until June 2010. On 1st July 2010 Professor Palmer was been appointed Cardiff University's first Archie Cochrane Chair in Epidemiology and Public Heath.
Lord Soulsby was previously Professor of Animal Pathology at the University of Cambridge, UK from 1978 to 1993, and Professor of Parasitology at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA from 1964 to 1978.
Prior to his current position at the Institute of Parasitology of the University of Zurich, Paul Torgerson was a lecturer in Parasitology at the University College Dublin and a research fellow at Cambridge University. He holds a degree in veterinary medicine and a PhD in parasitology, both awarded by the University of Cambridge. He is also a diplomat of the European College of Veterinary Public health.
Contributors:
Stephen Palmer
Morgan, D.
Lysons, R.
Kirkbride, H.
Christine M. Budke
Hélène Carabin
Paul R. Torgerson
Lord Soulsby of Swaffham Prior, House of Lords, London
Les Ballie
Theresa Huwar
Jakob Zinsstag DVM, PhD, Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel
Esther Schelling DVM, PhD, Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel
Javier Solera, MD, PhD, Servicio de Medicina Interna y Unidad de Investigación, Hospital General Universitario, Albacete, Spain
José M. Blasco, DVM, PhD, CITA - Gobierno de Aragón, Unidad de Sanidad Animal, Edificio Torre Alfonso, Spain
Ignacio Moriyón, Professor, Depto. Microbiología - Edificio de Investigación
Universidad de Navarra, Spain
Mohamed A. Karmali, Laboratory for Foodborne Zoonoses, Public Health Agency of Canada, and the Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Canada
Jan M. Sargeant, Laboratory for Foodborne Zoonoses, Public Health Agency of Canada and Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University. Canada
Sue O'Connell, Consultant Medical Microbiologist, Head, Health Protection Agency Lyme Borreliosis Unit, Southampton University Hospitals Trust, Southampton, UK
Emmanouil Angelakis, Unité des Rickettsies, CNRS UMR 6020, IFR 48, Faculté de Médecine, Université de la Méditerranée, France
Didier Raoult, Unité des Rickettsies, CNRS UMR 6020, IFR 48, Faculté de Médecine, Université de la Méditerranée, France
J. McLauchlin, Food Water and Environmental Microbiology Network, Health Protection Agency Regional Microbiology Network, London, UK
Borna Müller, DST/NRF Centre of Excellence for Biomedical Tuberculosis Research, MRC Centre of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Division of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
Ivo Pavlik, Veterinary Research Institute, Department of Food and Feed Safety, Mycobacteriology Unit, OIE Reference Laboratories for Paratuberculosis and Avian Tuberculosis, Czech Republic
A. J. Lawson
Margaret Sillis
David Longbottom
Thomas J Marrie
Aruni De Zoysa
Richard Birtles
Daniel R.H. Thomas
R.L. Salmon
Marina Morgan
Michel Drancourt, M.D., Ph.D., Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes CNRS 6236 IRD 198, IFR 48, Faculté de Médecine, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France
Robert M. Smith, Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre, Public Health Wales, The Temple of Peace and Health, Cathays Park, Cardiff, UK
Susan Dawson, University of Liverpool, UK
Wendy J. Zochowski
Michael Prentice
Sharon J. Peacock, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Microbiology and Public Health Laboratory, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK
David A. B. Dance, Health Protection Agency, Regional Microbiologist's Office, Plymouth, Devon, UK
E. J. Threlfall, Health Protection Agency, Gastrointestinal, Emerging and Zoonotic Infections, Centre for Infections, London, UK
J. Wain, Health Protection Agency, Gastrointestinal, Emerging and Zoonotic Infections, Centre for Infections, London, UK
C. Lane, Health Protection Agency, Gastrointestinal, Emerging and Zoonotic Infections, Centre for Infections, London, UK
Andrew Pearson
Colin R. Howard, DSc, FRCPath, Department of Pathology and Infectious Diseases, Royal Veterinary College, London, UK
R. Swanepoel, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Sandringham 2131, South Africa
J.T. Paweska, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Sandringham 2131, South Africa
Satu Kurkela, Virus Reference Department, HPA Centre for Infection, London, UK
David W.G. Brown, Virus Reference Department, HPA Centre for Infection, London, UK
X.J. Meng, Center for Molecular Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg VA, USA
I H. Brown, Veterinary Laboratory Agency, Addlestone, Surrey, UK
D. J. Alexander, Veterinary Laboratory Agency, Addlestone, Surrey,UK
N. Phin, Consultant Epidemiologist, Centre for Infections, London, UK
M. Zuckerman, Consultant Virologist, Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
G. Lloyd
E. A. Gould, Unité des Virus Emergents, Faculté de Médecine Timone, France and Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Oxford, UK
Hugh W. Reid
Mark Dagleish
James Hope, Veterinary Laboratories Agency Lasswade, Midlothian, UK
A. C. Banyard, Rabies Wildlife and Zoonoses Group, Veterinary Laboratories Agency, Weybridge, Surrey, UK
A. R. Fooks, Rabies Wildlife and Zoonoses Group, Veterinary Laboratories Agency, Weybridge, Surrey, UK
Patricia A. Nuttall
Thomas P. Monath, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Harvard, USA
J. Erin Staples, Medical Epidemiologist, Arboviral Disease Branch, Division of Vectorborne Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, USA
Merion Evans, Senior Lecturere in Epidemiology and Public Health, Cardiff University, UK
Diana Bell, Senior Lecturer, School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
Paul A. Rota, Measles, Mumps Rubella, and Herpesvirus Laboratory Branch, Division of Viral Diseases, National Center Immunizations and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA
William J. Bellini, Measles, Mumps Rubella, and Herpesvirus Laboratory Branch, Division of Viral Diseases, National Center Immunizations and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA
W. Gibson
C.J. Schofield, ECLAT Coordinator, Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Marina Gramiccia
R.C.A. Thompson, WHO Collaborating Centre for the Molecular Epidemiology of Parasitic Infections, School of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, Murdoch University, Australia
Aaron R. Jex, Department of Veterinary Science, The University of Melbourne, Werribee, Victoria, Australia
Rachel M. Chalmers
Huw V. Smith
Giovanni Widmer
Vincent McDonald
Robin B. Gasser
J.P. Dubey, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Animal Natural Resources Institute, Animal Parasitic Diseases Laboratory, Beltsville, USA
F. E. G. Cox, Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Louis M. Weiss M.D., M.P.H., Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, USA
Manoj K. Puthia, Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Parasitology, Department of Microbiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore,
and Defence Medical and Environmental Research Institute, DSO National Laboratories, Singapore
Kevin S. W. Tan, Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Parasitology, Department of Microbiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, and Infectious Disease Programme, Life Science Institute, National University of Singapore
Ana Flisser
Philip S. Craig
Akira Ito
Sheelagh Lloyd
C. N. L. Macpherson, St George's University, Grenada, West Indies
D. A. Vuitton, WHO Collaborating Centre on Prevention and Treatment of Echinococcosis, Université de Franche-Comté et CHU de Besançon, France
J. Eckert
P. Deplazes
P. Kern
Hélène Carabin
Maria V. Johansen
Jennifer F. Friedman
Stephen T. McGarvey
Henry Madsen
Steven Riley
T.J. Nolan, Laboratory of Parasitology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
T.B. Nutman, Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA
G.A. Schad, Laboratory of Parasitology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
Choosak Nithikathkul, Huachiew Chalermprakiet University, Thailand
Prasert Saichua, Thammasat University, Thailand
Louis Royal, Huachiew Chalermprakiet University, Thailand
John H. Cross
Qiao-Ping Wang, Center for Parasitic Organisms, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, P.R. China
Zhao-Rong Lun, Center for Parasitic Organisms, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, P.R. China
Harman S. Paintal, M.B.B.S., Staff Physician, United States Department of Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA
Rajinder K. Chitkara, M.B., M.D., Staff Physician, United States Department of Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA
Edoardo Pozio, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy
Dwight D. Bowman
Woon-Mok Sohn, Department of Parasitology and Institute of Health Sciences, Gyeongsang National University School of Medicine, Jinju 660-751, Korea
Jong-Yil Chai, Department of Parasitology and Tropical Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul 110-799, Korea
Eric R. Morgan
K.E Mounsey
S.F Walton
Heinz Mehlhorn, Parasitology, Heinrich- Heine- Universität, D- 40225- Düsseldorf, Germany
Mahmoud N. Abo-Shehada
L. Joseph Wheat
Lynn Guptill
B. Mignon
M. Monod
Michael Parkinson, School of Biotechnology, Dublin City University, Glasnevin, Ireland, UK
John P. Dalton, Institute for the Biotechnology of Infectious Diseases (IBID), University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Sandra M. O'Neill, School of Nursing, Dublin City University, Glasnevin, Ireland, UK
