Infectious Diseases : A Geographic Guide /: A Geographic Guide. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Eskild Petersen, Lin Hwei Chen, Patricia Schlagenhauf-Lawlor.
• Editors: Petersen, Eskild; Chen, Lin Hwei; Schlagenhauf-Lawlor, Patricia
• Contents: List of contributors, viii Foreword to the first edition by Alan J. Magill (deceased), xv Foreword to the second edition by Jay S. Keystone, xvii Preface, xix Envoi, xxi 1 Historical overview of global infectious diseases and geopolitics, 1; Francis. E.G. Cox and Frank J. Bia 2 Nontraditional infectious diseases surveillance systems, 12; Davidson H. Hamer, Kamran Khan, Matthew German, and Lawrence C. Madoff 3 Air travel−which infectious disease control measures are worthwhile?, 25; Karen J. Marienau 4 Infectious illnesses on cruise and cargo ships, 35; Joanna J. Regan, J. Scott Vega, and Clive M. Brown 5 Microbes on the move: prevention, required vaccinations, curtailment, outbreak, 45; Patricia Schlagenhauf-Lawlor, Giles Poumerol, and Francisco Santos-O’Connor 6 Diagnostic tests and procedures, 55; Eskild Petersen and Tom Boyles 7 Central Africa, 78; Gerd D. Burchard and Martin P. Grobusch 8 East Africa: Madagascar and Indian Ocean Islands, 93; Philippe Gautret and Philippe Parola 9 Eastern Africa, 104; Andreas Neumayr and Christoph Hatz 10 North Africa, 124; Philippe Gautret, Nadjet Mouffok, and Philippe Parola 11 Southern Africa, 137; Marc Mendelson, Olga Perovic, and Lucille Blumberg 12 West Africa, 154; Boubacar Maiga and Patrick Ayeh-Kumi 13 East Asia, 167; Bin Cao, Fei Zhou, and Mikio Kimura 14 South Central Asia, 185; Holy Murphy, Gulzhan Abuova, and Prativa Pandey 15 South-east Asia, 203; Daniel H. Paris and Nicholas J. White 16 Western Asia and the Middle East, 220; Jaffar A. Al-Tawfiq, Seif S. Al-Abri, and Ziad A. Memish 17 Eastern Europe, 235; Natalia Pshenichnaya, Malgorzata Paul, and Alexander Erovichenkov 18 Northern Europe, 257; Birgitta Evengard, Audrone Marcinkute, and Eskild Petersen 19 Southern Europe, 269; Francesco Castelli, Androula Pavli, and Pier Francesco Giorgetti 20 Western Europe, 278; Peter J. de Vries and Eric Caumes 21 The Caribbean, 302; Elizabeth A. Talbot and Laura E. Shevy 22 Central America, 317; Larry I. Lutwick and Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales 23 South America, 335; Rodrigo Nogueira Angerami, Luiz Jacintho da Silva, and Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales 24 Northern America, 356; Barbra M. Blair, Philip R. Fischer, Michael Libman, and Lin H. Chen 25 Australia, New Zealand, 375; Karin Leder, Joseph Torresi, and Marc Shaw 26 Oceania, 390; Karin Leder, Joseph Torresi, and Marc Shaw 27 Arctic and Antarctica, 404; Anders Koch, Michael G. Bruce, and Karin Ladefoged 28 The immunosuppressed patient, 419; Brian T. Montague, Christopher M. Salas, Terri L. Montague, and Maria D. Mileno 29 Emerging infections, 446; Mary E. Wilson 30 Migration and the geography of disease, 459; Rogelio López-Vélez, Francesca F. Norman, and José-Antonio Pérez-Molina 31 Climate change and the geographical distribution of infectious diseases, 470; Ashwin Swaminathan, Elvina Viennet, Anthony J. McMichael, and David Harley List of abbreviations, 481 Index, 484
• Edition: 2nd
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (520 pages)
• Subjects: 616.9; Communicable diseases; Epidemics; Epidemiology -- Methodology; Communicable Diseases -- epidemiology; Disease Outbreaks; Epidemiologic Methods; Topography, Medical -- methods
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781119085744; 1119085748
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