Infectious Diseases - a Geographic Guide

Eskild Petersen, Lin Hwei Chen, Patricia Schlagenhauf-Lawlor (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

480 Seiten

2011
Wiley-Blackwell (Verlag)
978-0-470-65529-0 (ISBN)

Infos

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 included in that region. Chapters also include descriptions of infectious disease risk and problems with resistant bacteria in each region (e.g. antibiotic resistance in Salmonella infections in Southeast Asia). For the clinician, this book is a tool to generate differential diagnoses by considering the geographical history, as well the presenting symptoms and duration of illness. For the travel medicine specialist, this book provides information on risks of different diseases at various destinations and is particularly useful in advising long-term travelers.

Autor

Eskild Petersen, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark Lin Hwei Chen, Mount Auburn Hospital, MA, USA Patricia Schlagenhauf, University of Zurich WHO Collaborating Centre for Travellers Health, Zurich, Switzerland

Inhalt

List of Contributors, viii Foreword, xviii Infectious Diseases in a Global Perspective, xx 1 Historical overview of global infectious diseases and geopolitics, 1 Francis E.G. Cox 2 Detection of infectious diseases using unofficial sources, 11 Lawrence C. Madoff and David O. Freedman 3 Microbes on the move: prevention, curtailment, outbreak, 22 Patricia Schlagenhauf, Giles Poumerol and Francisco Santos-O'Connor 4 Diagnostic tests and procedures, 31 Larry I. Lutwick, Marc Mendelson and Eskild Petersen 5 East Africa: Madagascar and Indian Ocean islands, 53 Philippe Gautret and Philippe Parola 6 Eastern Africa, 64 Andreas Neumayr and Christoph Hatz 7 Central Africa, 84 Gerd D. Burchard and Stephan Ehrhardt 8 North Africa, 98 Philippe Gautret, Nadjet Mouffok and Philippe Parola 9 Southern Africa, 111 Marc Mendelson, Olga Perovic and Lucille Blumberg 10 West Africa, 128 Joanna S. Herman and Peter L. Chiodini 11 Eastern Asia, 139 Susan MacDonald, Yasuyuki Kato and Annelies Wilder-Smith 12 South Central Asia, 155 Prativa Pandey, Holly Murphy and Ashish Bhalla 13 South-eastern Asia, 170 Daniel H. Paris and Nicholas J. White 14 Western Asia and the Middle East: Part 1, 188 Eyal Leshem and Eli Schwartz 15 Western Asia and the Middle East: Part 2, 197 Jaffar A. Al-Tawfiq and Ziad A. Memish 16 Eastern Europe, 203 Natalia Pshenichnaya and Malgorzata Paul 17 Northern Europe, 218 Birgitta Evenga rd, Audrone Marcinkute and Eskild Petersen 18 Southern Europe, 230 Francesco Castelli, Fabio Buelli and Pier Francesco Giorgetti 19 Western Europe, 238 Peter J. de Vries 20 Caribbean, 261 Jana I. Preis and Larry I. Lutwick 21 Central America, 273 Julius B. Salamera and Larry I. Lutwick 22 South America, 290 Rodrigo Nogueira Angerami and Luiz Jacintho da Silva 23 Northern America, 309 Barbra M. Blair, Philip R. Fischer, Michael Libman and Lin H. Chen 24 Australia and New Zealand, 326 Karin Leder, Joseph Torresi and Marc Shaw 25 Oceania, 341 Karin Leder, Joseph Torresi and Marc Shaw 26 Arctic and Antarctica, 360 Anders Koch, Michael G. Bruce and Karin Ladefoged 27 The immunosuppressed patient, 374 Brian T. Montague, Terri L. Montague and Maria D. Mileno 28 Emerging infections, 393 Mary Elizabeth Wilson 29 Migration and the geography of disease, 404 Rogelio Lopez-Velez, Francesca F. Norman and Jose-Antonio Perez-Molina 30 Climate change and the geographical distribution of infectious diseases, 414 David Harley, Ashwin Swaminathan and Anthony J. McMichael Abbreviations, 424 Index, 426

Produkt-Details

• Verlagsort: Hoboken
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 158 x 230 mm
• Gewicht: 1 g
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Infektiologie / Immunologie
• ISBN-10: 0-470-65529-1 / 0470655291
• ISBN-13: 978-0-470-65529-0 / 9780470655290
• Zustand: Neuware