Tuesday, June 16, 2009


Meningococcal Disease: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Medicine) by Andrew J. Pollard and Martin C.J. Maiden (Hardcover - Aug 2001)



Book Description:

Andrew Pollard and Martin Maiden bring together a panel of leading authorities to produce a comprehensive, interdisciplinary survey of recent advances and knowledge about meneigococcal disease. The review and methods-based chapters collected here provide essential information for diagnosis in the clinical microbiology laboratory, isolate characterization, clinical management, and control of meningococcal disease. They also examine the immunopathological mechanisms occurring in the acutely ill, host-pathogen interactions, and the possible components of meningococcus responsible for virulence. Meningococcal Disease: Methods and Protocols integrates the basic science, clinical, and epidemiological aspects of this terrible infectious disease to promote the deeper understanding needed to identify novel targets for therapeutic interventions and vaccines.

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Tuberculosis in the Workplace

By Committee on Regulating Occupational Exposure to Tuberculosis, Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

Publisher: National Academies Press

Number Of Pages: 340

Publication Date: 2001-06-15


ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0309073308

ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780309073301

Binding: Paperback



(Institute of Medicine) Yale Univ., New Haven, CT. Report of a committee of the Institute of Medicine on the incidence and risk of tuberculosis infection of health care professionals in the workplace. Makes conclusions about the likely sources of infection, the degree and trends of risk, and the effectiveness of current tuberculosis control measures. Softcover

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Salmonella in Domestic Animals (Cabi Publishing)


By C. Wray, A. Wray





Publisher: CABI

Number Of Pages: 463

Publication Date: 2000-05-15

ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0851992617

ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780851992617

Binding: Hardcover





Salmonella is an major cause of zoonotic infections (animal diseases which can infect humans) on a worldwide scale. Consequently, it is an organism which is the subject of a considerable amount of research. Written by leading researchers into Salmonella from Europe, North America and Australia, this book provides the only up to date review of work on all aspects of Salmonella in farm animals, including fundamental characteristics and biology (together with the laboratory techniques necessary for their study), a description of its effects, virulence, epidemiology and control.



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Communicable Disease Control Handbook


By Jeremy Hawker, Norman Begg, Iain Blair, Ralf Reintjes, Julius Weinberg



Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Number Of Pages: 424

Publication Date: 2005-11-18

ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1405124245

ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781405124249

Binding: Paperback





Concise and practical handbook for all those who have responsibility for the identification and control of infectious disease




Why Buy this Book?:

Clear and concise - combining science, attention to detail and a practical approach

Covers basic principles of communicable disease control and health protection, major syndromes, control of individual infections, main services and activities, organizational arragements for all EU countries and sources of further information

All chapters updated inline with recent changes in epidemiology, new guidelines for control and adminstrative changes

New or expanded chapters on immunization queries, smallpox, SARS, West Nile virus, delibrate release / bioterrorism and on-call response





"This comprehensive and practical handbook will provide a very accessible source of detailed information for everyone in the field of communicable disease control."

Sir Liam Donaldson, Chief Medical Officer (from the foreword)



"This handbook will be a valuable resource for all those who are interested in control of communicable disease, including public-health physicians, epidemiologists, infection control nurses, microbiologists and those training to work in these related fields."

The Lancet Infectious Diseases



"This book fulfils all the needs of a practical handbook, being easy to use and packed with practical information."

Epidemiology and Infection



"This would be the first book to reach for in any number of day-to-day or crisis situations in communicable disease control."

British Journal of Infection Control



"If you undertake on-call public health duties, just buy the book."

Journal of Public Health Medicine


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New and Emerging Infectious Diseases, An Issue of Medical Clinics


(The Clinics: Internal Medicine)

By Mary Elizabeth Wilson





Publisher: Saunders

Number Of Pages: 240

Publication Date: 2008-11-15

ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1416063196

ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781416063193

Binding: Hardcover





As expanding human communities result in radical modifications to our natural environments, previously harmless micro-organisms take on lethal potential. Moreover, existing diseases continually threaten to re-emerge or spread. This issue of Medical Clinics of North America looks at important aspects of this troubling topic and features the following articles: the Role of Migrants and Immigrants in Infectious Disease; Global Environment Change and Infectious Disease; the Role of the Traveller; Cholera; Rickettsial and Other Emerging Tick-borne Infections; West Nile Virus; Surveillance of Microbial Threats; HIV/AIDS; Chikungunya Virus Infections; Rift Valley Fever; Medical Tourism; Changing Patterns of Dengue and the Role of Travellers; and Antimicrobial Resistance

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The Complete HIV/AIDS Teaching Kit

By Josefina Card, Angela Amarillas, Alana Conner, Diana Dull Akers, Julie Solomon
Product Description:



In today's highly emotional HIV/AIDS debates, HIV risk behaviors are often simplistically described as a matter of "human choice," with little attention paid to the complex social, environmental, cultural, and economic factors impacting these choices. It is critically important to understand not only the science of the disease but also the behavioral and sociocultural influences that both facilitate, and prevent the spread of HIV.


This unique teaching kit--a research-based resource for a diverse audience, including academics, students, and health professionals--facilitates this understanding. The book covers the biomedical, social, psychological, and behavioral aspects of AIDS, thus providing a multidisciplinary view of prevention and treatment.

The Complete HIV/AIDS Teaching Kit offers an overview of what science knows about the incidence, prevalence, antecedents, consequences, prevention, and treatment of HIV/AIDS and is organized in four parts:
  • HIV/AIDS: The Epidemic
  • Preventing AIDS
  • Living with HIV/AIDS
  • Gender, Culture, and HIV/AIDS
Use the companion volume, Tools for Building Culturally Competent HIV Prevention Programs (Springer Publishing late 2007), to answer all your questions about program structure, effectiveness, goals, recruitment, evaluation, and more.


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Guidelines for the Programmatic Management of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis: Emergency Update 2008

By WHO





  • Publisher: World Health Organization
  • Number Of Pages: 184
  • Publication Date: 2008-12
  • ISBN-10 / ASIN: 9241547588
  • ISBN-13 / EAN: 9789241547581




Product Description:



The emergence in 2006 of extensively drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis, especially in countries with a high prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus, is a serious threats to global public health and jeopardizes efforts to effectively control the disease. These important developments and the availability of new evidence related to the diagnosis and management of drug-resistant tuberculosis have mandated an urgent update of existing guidelines. Guidelines for the Programmatic Management of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis: Emergency Updated Edition 2008 replaces previous publications by the World Health Organization on this subject.



The Guidelines offer updated recommendations for the diagnosis and management of drug-resistant tuberculosis in a variety of geographical, economic and social settings, and the recording of data that enables the monitoring and evaluation of programs. Intended for use by both tuberculosis control programs and medical practitioners in low- and middle-income countries, the guidelines take into account a number of recommendations which will support the achievement by countries of the goals of the Global Plan to Stop TB 2006-2015 of the Stop TB Partnership.




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