Emerging Infectious Diseases
A Guide to Diseases, Causative Agents, and Surveillance
Published on 8. March 2011
500 pages
978-1-118-00157-8 (ISBN)
Description
Emerging Infectious Diseases offers an introduction to emergingand reemerging infectious disease, focusing on significantillnesses found in various regions of the world. Many of thesediseases strike tropical regions or developing countries withparticular virulence, others are found in temperate or developedareas, and still other microbes and infections are moreindiscriminate.
This volume includes information on the underlying mechanisms ofmicrobial emergence, the technology used to detect them, and thestrategies available to contain them. The author describes thediseases and their causative agents that are major factors in thehealth of populations the world over.
The book contains up-to-date selections from infectious diseasejournals as well as information from the Centers for DiseaseControl and Prevention, the World Health Organization, MedLinePlus, and the American Society for Microbiology.
Perfect for students or those new to the field, the bookcontains Summary Overviews (thumbnail sketches of the basicinformation about the microbe and the associated disease underexamination), Review Questions (testing students' knowledge of thematerial), and Topics for Further Discussion (encouraging a widerconversation on the implications of the disease and challengingstudents to think creatively to develop new solutions).
This important volume provides broad coverage of a variety ofemerging infectious diseases, of which most are directly importantto health practitioners in the United States.
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Lisa A. Beltz, PhD, is assistant professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Kent State University at Tuscarawas, New Philadelphia, Ohio. Previously she was associate professor, Department of Biology, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa. Among her honors are a post-doctoral trainee fellowship at Johns Hopkins University and a SHARP Research Fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh. She won University of Northern Iowa's Biology Honors Teacher of the Year award in 2005.
Content
Tables and Figures.
Preface.
The Author.
Acknowledgments.
Part 1: Introduction to Emerging Infectious Diseases.
Chapter 1: Infectious Diseases Past and Present.
Chapter 2: Of Microbes and Men.
Part 2: Bacterial Infections.
Chapter 3: Lyme Disease.
Chapter 4: Human Ehrlichiosis.
Chapter 5: Bartonella Infections.
Chapter 6: Group A Streptococci.
Chapter 7: Escherichia coli O157:H7.
Chapter 8: Helicobacter pylori, Ulcers, and Cancer.
Chapter 9: Legionnaires' Disease and Pontiac Fever.
Chapter 10: Pulmonary Tuberculosis and Multidrug Resistance.
Chapter 11: Emerging Bacterial Drug Resistance.
Part 3: Viral Infections.
Chapter 12: Marburg and Ebola Hemorrhagic Fevers.
Chapter 13: American Hemorrhagic Fevers.
Chapter 14: Lassa Hemorrhagic Fever.
Chapter 15: Dengue Fever and Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever.
Chapter 16: The Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired ImmuneDeficiency Syndrome.
Chapter 17: Human Herpesvirus 8 and Kaposi's Sarcoma.
Chapter 18: Hepatitis C.
Chapter 19: Epidemic and Pandemic Influenza.
Chapter 20: Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome.
Chapter 21: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.
Chapter 22: West Nile Disease in the United States.
Chapter 23: Monkeypox.
Part 4: Parasitic Infections.
Chapter 24: Malaria: Reemergence Recent Successes.
Chapter 25: Babesiosis.
Chapter 26: Cryptosporidiosis.
Chapter 27: Chagas' Disease and Its Emergence in the UnitedStates.
Part 5: Infectious Proteins.
Chapter 28: Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease and Other TransmissibleSpongiform Encephalopathies.
Part 6: Special Issues in Infectious Diseases.
Chapter 29: The Emerging Importance of Infectious Diseases inthe Immunosuppressed.
Chapter 30: The Emerging Threat of Bioweapons.
Glossary.
Index.
