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Introduction to pandemic influenza [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Jonathan Van-Tam, Chloe Sellwood
| Introduction to pandemic influenza [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Jonathan Van-Tam, Chloe Sellwood |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Wallingford, UK ; ; Cambridge, MA, : CAB International, c2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (241 p.) |
| Disciplina | 614.5/18 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
SellwoodChloe
Van-TamJonathan |
| Collana | Modular texts |
| Soggetto topico |
Influenza - Epidemiology
Influenza - Prevention |
| ISBN |
1-282-49986-6
9786612499869 1-84593-726-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Contributors; Editor Biographies; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Glossary; A; B; C; D; E; H; I; L; M; N; P; Q; R; S; Z; 1 Seasonal Influenza: Epidemiology, Clinical Features and Surveillance; 1.1 Pandemic and Seasonal Influenza are Related Diseases; 1.2 Influenza A and B; 1.3 Clinical Features; 1.4 Timing and Seasonality; 1.5 Burden of Illness and Clinical Attack Rates; 1.6 Influenza in Children; 1.7 Diagnostic Certainty; 1.8 Excess Mortality; 1.9 High-risk Illnesses; 1.10 Nosocomial Infection and Outbreaks in Semi-closed Communities
1.11 Surveillance Data on Seasonal Influenza and Pandemic Needs1.12 Summary; 1.13 Summary Points; 2 Basic Influenza Virology and Immunology; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The Virus; 2.3 Nomenclature; 2.4 Replication; 2.5 The Immune Response; 2.6 The Variable Virus; 2.7 Pandemics; 2.8 Summary Points; 3 Avian and Animal Influenza: Manifestations in Man; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Avian Influenza in Wild and Domesticated Birds; 3.3 Influenza in Other Species; 3.4 Avian Influenza in Man; 3.5 Managing the Human and Public Health Consequences of Avian Influenza in Poultry; 3.6 Pandemic Preparedness 3.7 Summary Points4 Brief History and Epidemiological Features of Pandemic Influenza; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Prerequisites for Pandemic Influenza; 4.3 Pandemics before the 20th Century; 4.4 Influenza Pandemics of the 20th Century; 4.5 Swine Flu, 1976: a Pandemic Averted?; 4.6 Re-emergence of Influenza A/H1N1 in 1977; 4.7 Antigenic Recycling in Relation to Human Pandemics; 4.8 Will an Avian Influenza Virus Cause a Future Pandemic?; 4.9 Pandemic Preparedness; 4.10 Summary Points; 5 Influenza Transmission and Related Infection Control Issues; 5.1 Introduction 5.2 What is Known about Influenza Transmission?5.3 What is Unknown about Influenza Transmission?; 5.4 What can Reasonably be Deduced about Influenza Transmission?; 5.5 Modes of Transmission of Infection; 5.6 Infection Control Precautions to Counteract Transmission; 5.7 Which Infection Control Precautions are Required for Influenza?; 5.8 Counteracting Droplet Transmission; 5.9 Influenza Transmission: the Evidence For and Against the Different Modes of Transmission; 5.10 The Debate: Current Thinking Regarding Influenza Transmission; 5.11 Counteracting Transmission 5.12 Aerosol-generating Procedures5.13 Translating Evidence on Transmission into Practical Advice; 5.14 Unresolved Questions for Further Research; 5.15 Summary Points; 6 The Role of Emergency Planning, Business Continuity and Exercises in Pandemic Preparedness; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Emergency Preparedness and Business Continuity Planning; 6.3 Interdependency and Interoperability; 6.4 Background to the Role of Exercises in Pandemic Preparedness; 6.5 Types of Exercise; 6.6 Potential Problems in the Design of Pandemic Influenza Exercises; 6.7 Lessons Identified; 6.8 Conclusion 6.9 Summary Points |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910446332403321 |
| Wallingford, UK ; ; Cambridge, MA, : CAB International, c2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Pandemic influenza
| Pandemic influenza |
| Edizione | [2nd ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Place of publication not identified], : CABI, 2013 |
| Disciplina | 614.5/18 |
| Collana | Modular texts Pandemic influenza |
| Soggetto topico |
Orthomyxoviridae Infections
Epidemics Public Health Public Health Practice Respiratory Tract Infections Respiratory Tract Diseases RNA Virus Infections Disease Outbreaks Medicine Diseases Health Occupations Environment and Public Health Virus Diseases Disciplines and Occupations Health Care Epidemiology Influenza, Human Communicable Disease Control Pandemics Health & Biological Sciences Communicable Diseases |
| ISBN |
1-84593-856-9
9781845938567 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910627284603321 |
| [Place of publication not identified], : CABI, 2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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