Author: Forum on Emerging InfectionsInstitute of Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: emerging, infections, address, technology, incentives, developing, orphans
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 1997-10-30
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0309059410
ISBN-13: 9780309059411

Infectious diseases remain a leading cause of prolonged illness, premature mortality, and soaring health costs. In the United States in 1995, infectious diseases were the third leading cause of death, right behind heart disease and cancer. Mortality is mounting over time, owing to HIV/AIDS, pneumonia, and septicemia, with drug resistance playing an ever-increasing role in each of these disease categories.This book, a report from a Forum on Emerging Infections workshop, focuses on product areas where returns from the market might be perceived as being too small or too complicated by other facto

Authors:W. Michael Scheld, Scott M., M.D. Hammer, James M. H
Publisher: ASM Press
Keywords: emerging, infections, press, asm
Number of Pages: 450
Published: 2008-09
List price: $139.95
ISBN-10: 1555814441
ISBN-13: 9781555814441

The twenty chapters in this volume provide concise and timely updates on the epidemiology, clinical features, and prevention and control strategies for a number of important emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases and syndromes. They highlight the importance of disease surveillance and timely response as the best way to ensure that these diseases do not cause severe morbidity and mortality when and where they occur, and to reduce the likelihood of international spread. The chapters also identify research priorities, and emphasize the need for interdisciplinary collaboration in detecting a

Authors:David Oriel, Geoff Ridgway, Julius Schachter, David T
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: chlamydial, infections, sanderstead, june, human, surrey, international, proceedings, sixth, symposium
Number of Pages: 610
Published: 1986-09-26
List price: $99.95
ISBN-10: 052132453X
ISBN-13: 9780521324533

This volume provides a timely and authoritative account of Chlamydia and of the widespread, debilitating consequences of these microbial infections on humans. Sexually transmitted disease caused by C. trachomatis and the resulting infertility is of global importance. Trachoma itself is the world’s major cause of preventable blindness affecting some 400 million people. C psittaci produces serious infection in a wide range of animals as well as in man. Growing awareness of the clinical importance of chlarnydial infection has been paralleled by an explosion in basic research on Chlamydia. L

Author: William R. Jarvis
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Keywords: infections, hospital, brachman, bennett
Number of Pages: 816
Published: 2007-10-31
List price: $239.00
ISBN-10: 0781763835
ISBN-13: 9780781763837

The most influential reference in the field for nearly thirty years, Bennett and Brachman’s Hospital Infections is in its thoroughly updated Fifth Edition. Written by internationally recognized experts—many affiliated with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—the book is the most comprehensive, up-to-date, authoritative guide to the recognition, management, prevention, and control of infections in all types of healthcare facilities. More than half of this edition’s chapters have new authors who are current experts in the field. Important new chapters cover patient saf

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Keywords: infections, emerging
Number of Pages: 260
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ISBN-10: 1555812422
ISBN-13: 9781555812423

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Keywords: infections, emerging
Number of Pages: 350
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ISBN-10: 1555811973
ISBN-13: 9781555811976

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Keywords: infections, emerging
Number of Pages: 350
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ISBN-10: 155581168X
ISBN-13: 9781555811686