Emerging Infections - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0123886635 ISBN 13: 9780123886637

Publisher: Academic Press, 2011

Emerging Infections is the first volume of the new Biomedical Research Reports Series, which will provide annual updates on hot topics of interest to a broad spectrum of the biomedical research community. This book provides state-of-the-art reviews of new and reemerging bacterial, viral, and parasitic infections, their life cycles, host defense evasion strategies, and clinical features. It includes the history of infectious disease outbreaks, population and evolutionary biology of human pathogens, and current epidemiological models that describe how ecological and demographic changes produce new epidemics.

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Emerging Infections offers state-of-the-art coverage of new and reemerging bacterial, viral, and parasitic infections, their life cycles, host defense evasion strategies, and clinical features. This volume, with contributions from eminent international researchers, includes the history of infectious disease outbreaks, population and evolutionary biology of human pathogens, and current epidemiological models describing how ecological and demographic changes produce new epidemics. Articles detail the major established pathogens as well as the new and sensational.
Highlights
* Persisting problems in tuberculosis
* Pathogenic Escherichia coli 0157:H7
* The revival of Group A Streptococcal diseases
* Antibiotic resistance in bacteria
* Korean hemorrhagic fever and Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome
* Ebola virus: where does it come from and where is it going?

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