Infectious diseases : a geographic guide / / [edited by] Eskild Petersen, Lin H. Chen, Patricia Schlagenhauf-Lawlor

• Pubblicazione: Chichester, West Sussex ; ; Hoboken, NJ, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (481 p.)
• Disciplina: 614.4
• Soggetto topico: Communicable diseases; Epidemics; Epidemiology - Methodology; Medical geography
• Altri autori: PetersenEskild ChenLin H Schlagenhauf-LawlorPatricia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Infectious diseases
• ISBN: 1-119-97162-4; 1-283-40502-4; 9786613405029; 1-119-97161-6; 1-119-97164-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910131023103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II