This volume addresses the issue of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases and the critical importance of detecting, responding to, and controlling them. The 25 contributions by physicians and other health care consultants discuss background information, specific diseases (epidemiology, microbiolgoy, clinical picture, treatment, and prevention) and special considerations such as the role of infections in cancer and other illnesses, bioterrorism, and behavioral and cultural aspects of transmission and infection. Edited by Lashley (School of Nursing, Southern Illinois U.) and Durham (nursing, U. of Missouri). Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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""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.

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