Emerging infectious diseases : a guide to diseases, causative agents, and surveillance

"This important resource offers a comprehensive introduction to emerging and reemerging infectious disease, including the underlying mechanisms of microbial emergence, the technology used to detect them and the strategies available to contain them. The author describes the diseases and their causative agents that are major factors in the health of populations the world over. One of the main features of the book is its broad coverage of 25 different emerging infectious diseases, most of which are directly important to those practicing health in the U.S. The book is designed for students in epidemiology, global health, and biology"-- Read more... Content: Infectious diseases past and present -- Of microbes and men -- Lyme disease -- Human ehrlichiosis -- Bartonella infections -- Group A streptococci -- Escherichia coli O157:H7 -- Helicobacter pylori, ulcers, and cancer -- Legionnaires' disease and Pontiac fever -- Pulmonary tuberculosis and multidrug resistance -- Emerging bacterial drug resistance -- Marburg and Ebola hemorrhagic fevers -- American hemorrhagic fevers -- Lassa hemorrhagic fever -- Dengue fever and dengue hemorrhagic fever -- The human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immune deficiency syndrome -- Human herpesvirus 8 and Karposi's sarcoma -- Hepatitis C -- Epidemic and pandemic influenza -- Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome -- Severe acute respiratory syndrome -- West Nile disease in the United States -- Monkeypox -- Malaria : reemergence and recent successes -- Babesiosis -- Cryptosporidiosis -- Chagas' disease and its emergence in the United States -- Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and other transmissible spongiform encephalopathies -- The emerging importance of infectious diseases in the immunosuppressed -- The emerging threat of bioweapons Abstract: This important resource offers a comprehensive introduction to emerging and reemerging infectious disease, including the underlying mechanisms of microbial emergence, the technology used to detect them and the strategies available to contain them. Read more...