Infectious Diseases A Geographic Guide [#440958]

Infectious Diseases: A Geographic Guide By
2011 | 478 Pages | ISBN: 0470655291 | PDF | 9 MB
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 emergingbacterial, viral and parasitic infections in a given geographical area of the world. Infectious Diseases: A Geographic Guideis 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 included in that region. Chapters also include descriptions of infectious disease risk and problems with resistant bacteria in each region (e.g. antibiotic resistance in Salmonella infections in Southeast Asia). For theclinician, this book is a tool to generate differential diagnoses by considering the geographical history, as well the presenting symptoms and duration of illness.For thetravel medicine specialist, this book provides information on risks of different diseases at various destinations and is particularly useful in advising long-term travelers.Content: Chapter 1 Historical Overview of Global Infectious Diseases and Geopolitics (pages 1-10): Francis E. G. CoxChapter 2 Detection of Infectious Diseases Using Unofficial Sources (pages 11-21): Lawrence C. Madoff and David O. FreedmanChapter 3 Microbes on the move: Prevention, Curtailment, Outbreak (pages 22-30): Patricia Schlagenhauf, Giles Poumerol and Francisco Santos?O'ConnorChapter 4 Diagnostic Tests and Procedures (pages 31-52): Larry I. Lutwick, Marc Mendelson and Eskild PetersenChapter 5 East Africa: Madagascar and Indian Ocean Islands (pages 53-63): Philippe Gautret and Philippe ParolaChapter 6 Eastern Africa (pages 64-83): Andreas Neumayr and Christoph HatzChapter 7 Central Africa (pages 84-97): Gerd D. Burchard and Stephan EhrhardtChapter 8 North Africa (pages 98-110): Philippe Gautret, Nadjet Mouffok and Philippe ParolaChapter 9 Southern Africa (pages 111-127): Marc Mendelson, Olga Perovic and Lucille BlumbergChapter 10 West Africa (pages 128-138): Joanna S. Herman and Peter L. ChiodiniChapter 11 Eastern Asia (pages 139-154): Susan MacDonald, Yasuyuki Kato and Annelies Wilder?SmithChapter 12 South Central Asia (pages 155-169): Prativa Pandey, Holly Murphy and Ashish BhallaChapter 13 South?Eastern Asia (pages 170-187): Daniel H. Paris and Nicholas J. WhiteChapter 14 Western Asia and the Middle East: Part 1 (pages 188-196): Eyal Leshem and Eli SchwartzChapter 15 Western Asia and the Middle East: Part 2 (pages 197-202): Jaffar A. Al?Tawfiq and Ziad A. MemishChapter 16 Eastern Europe (pages 203-217): Natalia Pshenichnaya and Malgorzata PaulChapter 17 Northern Europe (pages 218-229): Birgitta Evenga, Audrone Marcinkute and Eskild PetersenChapter 18 Southern Europe (pages 230-237): Francesco Castelli, Fabio Buelli and Pier Francesco GiorgettiChapter 19 Western Europe (pages 238-260): Peter J. de VriesChapter 20 Caribbean (pages 261-272): Jana I. Preis and Larry I. LutwickChapter 21 Central America (pages 273-289): Julius B. Salamera and Larry I. LutwickChapter 22 South America (pages 290-308): Rodrigo Nogueira Angerami and Luiz Jacintho da SilvaChapter 23 Northern America (pages 309-325): Barbra M. Blair, Philip R. Fischer, Michael Libman and Lin H. ChenChapter 24 Australia and New Zealand (pages 326-340): Karin Leder, Joseph Torresi and Marc ShawChapter 25 Oceania (pages 341-359): Karin Leder, Joseph Torresi and Marc ShawChapter 26 Arctic and Antarctica (pages 360-373): Anders Koch, Michael G. Bruce and Karin LadefogedChapter 27 The Immunosuppressed Patient (pages 374-392): Brian T. Montague, Terri L. Montague and Maria D. MilenoChapter 28 Emerging Infections (pages 393-403): Mary Elizabeth WilsonChapter 29 Migration and the Geography of Disease (pages 404-413): Rogelio Lopez?Velez, Francesca F. Norman and Jose?Antonio Perez?MolinaChapter 30 Climate Change and the Geographical Distribution of Infectious Diseases (pages 414-423): David Harley, Ashwin Swaminathan and Anthony J. McMichael