Genetics and Evolution of Infectious Diseases, Third Edition discusses the evolving field of infectious diseases and their continued impact on the health of populations, especially in resource-limited areas of the world where they must confront the dual burden of death and disability due to infectious and chronic illnesses. Although substantial gains have been made in public health interventions for the treatment, prevention, and control of infectious diseases, in recent decades the world has witnessed the emergence of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and the COVID-19 pandemic, increasing antimicrobial resistance, and the emergence of many new bacterial, fungal, parasitic, and viral pathogens.Fully updated and revised, this new edition presents the consequences of such diseases, the evolution of infectious diseases, the genetics of host-pathogen relationship, and the control and prevention strategies that are, or can be, developed. This book offers valuable information to biomedical researchers, clinicians, public health practitioners, decisions-makers, and students and postgraduates studying infectious diseases, microbiology, medicine, and public health that is relevant to the control and prevention of neglected and emerging worldwide diseases.
- Takes an integrated approach to infectious diseases
- Provides the latest developments in the field of infectious diseases
- Focuses on the contribution of evolutionary and genomic studies for the study and control of transmissible diseases
- Includes updated and revised contributions from leading authorities, along with six new chapters
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Elsevier Science & Techn.
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978-0-443-28819-7 (9780443288197)
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1. Virus Species2. A Theory-Based Pragmatism for Discovering and Classifying Newly Divergent Bacterial Species3. Population Structure of Pathogenic Bacteria4. Diverse Strategies and Evolutionary Histories of Fungal Pathogens5. Molecular Epidemiology of Pathogenic Microorganisms and The Predominant Clonal Evolution (PCE) Model6. Coevolution of Host and Pathogen7. Human Population Diversity and Transmissible Diseases8. Pathogens as Tracers of Past Human Demography and Migrations9. Evolutionary Responses to Infectious Disease10. Infectious Diseases Genomics11. Proteomics and Host/Pathogen Interactions: A Bright Future?12. The Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance13. Evolution of Resistance to Insecticide in Disease Vectors14. Genetics of Major Insect Vectors15. Modern Morphometrics of Medically Important Insects16. Multilocus Sequence Typing of Pathogens17. Omics, Bioinformatics, and Infectious Disease Research18. Genomics of Infectious Diseases And Private Industry19. Biodiversity, Ecology, and Zoonoses20. Genetic Exchange in Trypanosomatids and its Relevance to Epidemiology21. Genomic Insights into the Past, Current and Future Evolution of Human Parasites of the Genus Plasmodium22. Host Adaptation in the Mycobacterium Genus: An Evolutionary and Genomic Perspective23. Evolution, Phylogenetics and Phylogeography of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis24. The Evolution of Staphylococcus Aureus25. Origin and Emergence of HIV/AIDS26. Evolution of SARS Coronavirus and the Relevance of Modern Molecular Epidemiology27. Ecology and Evolution of Avian Influenza Viruses
