Outbreak in the village : a family doctor's lifetime study of whooping cough / / by Douglas Jenkinson
| Outbreak in the village : a family doctor's lifetime study of whooping cough / / by Douglas Jenkinson |
| Autore | Jenkinson Douglas |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2020.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2020 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XXIII, 158 p. 63 illus., 43 illus. in color.) |
| Disciplina | 614.543 |
| Collana | Springer Biographies |
| Soggetto topico |
Immunology
Life sciences Pharmacology Medicine Medicine—History Public health Life Sciences, general Pharmacology/Toxicology Medicine/Public Health, general History of Medicine Public Health |
| ISBN | 3-030-45485-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction -- 2. From Africa to England -- 3. The children's clinic at Keyworth -- 4. Whooping cough vaccine -- 5. 1977-79: The first outbreak of whooping cough -- 6. Does the vaccine work? -- 7. 1981: Whooping cough vaccine is very rarely harmful -- 8. 1981-83: The second outbreak. How many cases are there really? -- 9.1985-87: The third outbreak. The search for subclinical infection -- 10. Does the effectiveness of the vaccine wear off? -- 11. 1988: Trying to raise the uptake of pertussis vaccine -- 12. 1989-91: The fourth outbreak. The natural history of whooping cough -- 13. 1990's: Whooping cough fades away but new diagnostic tests emerge -- 14. 2000: Whoopingcough.net. Overcoming diagnostic paralysis -- 15. The early noughties: The new tests aid the rediscovery of whooping cough -- 16. Late noughties: "Resurgence" of whooping cough in the USA and Australia puts the UK on alert -- 17. 2012: Whooping cough diagnoses peak in the UK but remain unchanged in Keyworth -- 18. What lies ahead? -- 19. Epilogue -- Appendix. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910422649803321 |
Jenkinson Douglas
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| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2020 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Pertussis : global status / / Stephen Berger, MD
| Pertussis : global status / / Stephen Berger, MD |
| Autore | Berger Stephen |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Los Angeles, California : , : Gideon Informatics, Inc., , 2017 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (380 pages) : illustrations, tables |
| Disciplina | 614.543 |
| Soggetto topico | Whooping cough |
| ISBN | 1-4988-1642-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910164204003321 |
Berger Stephen
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| Los Angeles, California : , : Gideon Informatics, Inc., , 2017 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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