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Infectious diseases : a geographic guide / [edited by] Eskild Petersen, Lin H. Chen, Patricia Schlagenhauf-Lawlor.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Communicable diseases.
- Epidemics.
- Epidemiology--Methodology.
- Epidemiology.
- Medical geography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (481 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chichester, West Sussex ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This concise and practical guide describes infections in geographical areas and provides information on disease risk, concomitant infections (such as co-prevalence of HIV and tuberculosis) and emerging bacterial, viral and parasitic infections in a given geographical area of the world. Infectious Diseases: A Geographic Guide is divided according to United Nations world regions and addresses geographic disease profiles, presenting symptoms and incubation periods of infections. Each chapter contains a section on the coverage of the childhood vaccination programs in the countries include
- Contents:
- Infectious Diseases: A Geographic Guide; Contents; List of Contributors; Foreword; Infectious Diseases in a Global Perspective; 1 Historical overview of global infectious diseases and geopolitics; 2 Detection of infectious diseases using unofficial sources; 3 Microbes on the move: prevention, curtailment, outbreak; 4 Diagnostic tests and procedures; 5 East Africa: Madagascar and Indian Ocean islands; 6 Eastern Africa; 7 Central Africa; 8 North Africa; 9 Southern Africa; 10 West Africa; 11 Eastern Asia; 12 South Central Asia; 13 South-eastern Asia; 14 Western Asia and the Middle East: Part 1
- 15 Western Asia and the Middle East: Part 216 Eastern Europe; 17 Northern Europe; 18 Southern Europe; 19 Western Europe; 20 Caribbean; 21 Central America; 22 South America; 23 Northern America; 24 Australia and New Zealand; 25 Oceania; 26 Arctic and Antarctica; 27 The immunosuppressed patient; 28 Emerging infections; 29 Migration and the geography of disease; 30 Climate change and the geographical distribution of infectious diseases; Abbreviations; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-119-97162-4
- 1-283-40502-4
- 9786613405029
- 1-119-97161-6
- 1-119-97164-0
- OCLC:
- 729730941
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