Emerging Infectious Diseases: Trends and Issues

ISBN 10: 0826102506 / ISBN 13: 9780826102508

Published by Springer Publishing Company, 2007

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Emerging Infectious Diseases: Trends and Issues
• Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0826102506
• ISBN 13: 9780826102508
• Binding: hardcover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Good

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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 the Authors

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.

Jerry D. Durham, PhD, RN., FAAN, is Chancellor and Professor of Nursing at Allen College, Waterloo, Iowa.