Communicable Diseases
A Global Perspective
Seiten
2019
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6th edition
CABI Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-78639-524-5 (ISBN)
CABI Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-78639-524-5 (ISBN)
This well-established textbook provides a comprehensive account of diseases and their transmission, covering epidemiology, control strategies, notifications and regulations. Reviewing the major diseases established, new, and emerging, this new edition includes updates on human endogenous viruses, zika, monkeypox, vaccination, melioidosis and more.
Completely updated and revised, and now published in its sixth edition, this best-selling text has provided an essential overview of the subject for almost 25 years. A comprehensive yet synoptic account of communicable diseases, it covers theory, epidemiology and control, then systematically groups diseases by their main means of transmission. There are special chapters on infections in pregnancy and the concern of new and emerging diseases, and an annex lists all 353 diseases in an easy reference table. This edition includes updates to all chapters and a new section on melioidosis. It: - Provides information concisely so it can be found at a glance. - Includes numerous clear diagrams, bullet points and tables for rapid review and learning. - Contains a new full-colour internal design and online lecture slides to facilitate teaching. Communicable Diseases continues to provide an essential resource for doctors, medical students and all those in public health, and for healthcare workers needing a comprehensive yet concise practical text.
Completely updated and revised, and now published in its sixth edition, this best-selling text has provided an essential overview of the subject for almost 25 years. A comprehensive yet synoptic account of communicable diseases, it covers theory, epidemiology and control, then systematically groups diseases by their main means of transmission. There are special chapters on infections in pregnancy and the concern of new and emerging diseases, and an annex lists all 353 diseases in an easy reference table. This edition includes updates to all chapters and a new section on melioidosis. It: - Provides information concisely so it can be found at a glance. - Includes numerous clear diagrams, bullet points and tables for rapid review and learning. - Contains a new full-colour internal design and online lecture slides to facilitate teaching. Communicable Diseases continues to provide an essential resource for doctors, medical students and all those in public health, and for healthcare workers needing a comprehensive yet concise practical text.
Roger Webber is formerly of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK.
1: Elements of Communicable Diseases 2: Communicable Disease Theory 3: Control Principles and Methods 4: Control Strategy and Organization 5: Notification and Health Regulations 6: Classification of Communicable Diseases 7: Diseases of Poor Hygiene 8: Faecal–Oral Diseases 9: Food-borne Diseases 10: Diseases of Soil Contact 11: Diseases of Water Contact 12: Skin Infections 13: Respiratory Diseases and Other Airborne-transmitted Infections 14: Diseases Transmitted via Body Fluids 15: Insect-borne Diseases 16: Ectoparasite Zoonoses 17: Domestic and Synanthropic Zoonoses 18: Pregnancy and Infection 19: New and Emerging Diseases 20: List of Communicable Diseases
| Erscheinungsdatum | 20.11.2019 |
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| Verlagsort | Wallingford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 189 x 246 mm |
| Gewicht | 949 g |
| Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete |
| Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Infektiologie / Immunologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78639-524-X / 178639524X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78639-524-5 / 9781786395245 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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