Emerging Infectious Diseases: Trends and Issues - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0826102506 ISBN 13: 9780826102508

Publisher: Springer Publishing Company, 2007

Synopsis

This new work updates the highly regarded first edition...and is equally excellent. It offers a wealth of timely information about a variety of emerging and reemerging infections...This is an excellent reference for anyone interested in emerging infections, and will be a valuable resource for health science students, especially those in nursing and public health....Highly recommended. Upper-level undergraduates through professionals/practitioners."--Choice

Emerging, re-emerging, and antibiotic-resistant infectious diseases continue to increase at an alarming rate throughout the world. Written for a wide range of health professionals, particularly nurses, this revised edition provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of these diseases: their epidemiology, clinical manifestations, prevention, and treatment.

With contributions by a multidisciplinary team of nurses, physicians, and infectious disease specialists, the book includes material on the most recent and important new emerging infectious diseases:

• Avian influenza and SARS
• Issues of demographics and microbial resistance
• Special topics, including bioterrorism
• Behavioral and cultural factors
• Infectious etiologies of chronic diseases
• Travel and recreational exposure

Each chapter is amply illustrated with clinical case examples to demonstrate the pitfalls in differential diagnosis and elucidate proper management and treatment. Valuable appendices provide critical reference information for each of the bacterial, viral, fungal, and parasitic diseases.

About this title

About the Author

Felissa R. Lashley, PhD, RN, FABMGG, is former dean and professor at the College of Nursing at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Prior to that, she was a dean and professor at the Southern Illinois University—Edwardsville and a clinical professor of pediatrics at the School of Medicine, Southern Illinois University—Springfield. She is the first nurse to be certified as a PhD medical geneticist by the American Board of Medical Genetics, and is a founding fellow of the American College of Medical Genetics. She began her practice of genetic evaluation and counseling in 1973.

Review

Praise for the first edition:
"...this book is a gem to read... it's an invaluable resource to clinicians and educators who want a state-of-the-science reference for this fascinating and important field."
--Elaine Larson, RN, PhD, FAAN, CIC, Columbia University, School of Nursing

"This interesting and well researched text avoids politicizing, yet the authors carefully discuss the demographic, psychosocial, behavioral, and health care technology-based factors that have contributed to infectious disease emergence and transmission. Strategies for dealing with these diseases are thoroughly and courageously discussed. The text is logically ordered and contains many references. Each chapter is accompanied by a succinct, yet inclusive, summary. Specific diseases have their own chapters; it is noteworthy that the authors have chosen to include prisons and bioterrorism in the discussion....Nursing students, nursing professionals, and allied health care practitioners can benefit from a careful reading of this text."

--Sandy Carroll, MSN, RN
College of the Canyons, Valencia, CA
The Research Journal of the National League for Nursing 2009

About this edition

• Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0826102506
• ISBN 13: 9780826102508
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 616
• Editor: Felissa R. Lashley, Jerry D. Durham