Petersen, Eskild. Chen, Lin H. Schlagenhauf-Lawlor, Patricia. text bibliography Electronic books. Electronic books. enk Chichester, West Sussex Wiley-Blackwell 2011 monographic eng

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1 online resource (xxi, 457 pages) : illustrations, map 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 emerging bacterial, viral and parasitic infections in a given geographical area of the world. Infectious Diseases: A Geographic Guide is 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. Front Matter -- Historical Overview of Global Infectious Diseases and Geopolitics / Francis E G Cox -- Detection of Infectious Diseases Using Unofficial Sources / Lawrence C Madoff, David O Freedman -- Microbes on the move: Prevention, Curtailment, Outbreak / Patricia Schlagenhauf, Giles Poumerol, Francisco Santos-O'Connor -- Diagnostic Tests and Procedures / Larry I Lutwick, Marc Mendelson, Eskild Petersen -- East Africa: Madagascar and Indian Ocean Islands / Philippe Gautret, Philippe Parola -- Eastern Africa / Andreas Neumayr, Christoph Hatz -- Central Africa / Gerd D Burchard, Stephan Ehrhardt -- North Africa / Philippe Gautret, Nadjet Mouffok, Philippe Parola -- Southern Africa / Marc Mendelson, Olga Perovic, Lucille Blumberg -- West Africa / Joanna S Herman, Peter L Chiodini -- Eastern Asia / Susan MacDonald, Yasuyuki Kato, Annelies Wilder-Smith -- South Central Asia / Prativa Pandey, Holly Murphy, Ashish Bhalla -- South-Eastern Asia / Daniel H Paris, Nicholas J White -- Western Asia and the Middle East: Part 1 / Eyal Leshem, Eli Schwartz -- Western Asia and the Middle East: Part 2 / Jaffar A Al-Tawfiq, Ziad A Memish -- Eastern Europe / Natalia Pshenichnaya, Malgorzata Paul -- Northern Europe / Birgitta Evenḡ, Audrone Marcinkute, Eskild Petersen -- Southern Europe / Francesco Castelli, Fabio Buelli, Pier Francesco Giorgetti -- Western Europe / Peter J de Vries -- Caribbean / Jana I Preis, Larry I Lutwick -- Central America / Julius B Salamera, Larry I Lutwick -- South America / Rodrigo Nogueira Angerami, Luiz Jacintho da Silva -- Northern America / Barbra M Blair, Philip R Fischer, Michael Libman, Lin H Chen -- Australia and New Zealand / Karin Leder, Joseph Torresi, Marc Shaw -- Oceania / Karin Leder, Joseph Torresi, Marc Shaw -- Arctic and Antarctica / Anders Koch, Michael G Bruce, Karin Ladefoged -- The Immunosuppressed Patient / Brian T Montague, Terri L Montague, Maria D Mileno -- Emerging Infections / Mary Elizabeth Wilson -- Migration and the Geography of Disease / Rogelio L̤pez-V̌lez, Francesca F Norman, Još-Antonio P̌rez-Molina -- Climate Change and the Geographical Distribution of Infectious Diseases / David Harley, Ashwin Swaminathan, Anthony J McMichael -- Abbreviations -- Index. [edited by] Eskild Petersen, Lin H. Chen, Patricia Schlagenhauf. Includes bibliographical references and index. Communicable diseases Epidemics Epidemiology Methodology Medical geography MEDICAL Epidemiology MEDICAL Health Risk Assessment Communicable diseases Epidemics Epidemiology Methodology Medical geography Communicable Diseases epidemiology Disease Outbreaks Epidemiologic Methods Topography, Medical methods RA643 .G54 2011eb 614.4 WC 100 Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011 (DLC) 2011002979 (OCoLC)698580677 9781119971641 1119971640 9781119971610 1119971616 10.1002/9781119971641 Wiley InterScience http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781119971641 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781119971641 DG1 110609 20171119082244.0 ocn729730941 eng