Emerging infectious diseases in india / Viroj Wiwanitkit and Mohen Y. Singh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Viroj Wiwanitkit.

Contributor:

Singh, Mohen Y.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emerging infectious diseases--India.

Emerging infectious diseases.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (237 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hauppauge, N.Y. : Nova Science Publishers, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"The purpose of this book is to summarize and present the topics specifically relating to emerging and remerging infections in India, the well known subcontinent. Due to the globalization in the present day, the change in the epidemiology of diseases from one site to the others all around the world can be expected. Indian story is the focus of interest in medicine. The summative on the common infectious problems in the tropical countries can be and should be performed. This work can be a useful reference material for the practitioners who are not familiar to the unique problems of the developing world and might face up with those problems due to the possible migration of diseases. This book can make them at least realize and familial with the problems."--Publisher's description.

Contents:

India : a model for health in developing world

Leptospirosis in India

Indian malaria

Leishmaniasis in India

Dengue virus infection in India

Chikungunya fever in India

Japanese encephalitis in india

Gastrointestinal infectious disease in India

Emerging hepatitis in India

Tuberculosis in India

A study of anal and perianal tubercular infection

Cutaneous tuberculosis : a review

Suppurative lesions complicating chronic anal fissures

Bird flu in India

Scrub typhus in india

Buffalopox in India

HIV and related emerging infections in india.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record and cip data provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1-61728-394-0

OCLC:

923664218