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Book SynopsisTHE ESSENTIAL WORK IN TRAVEL MEDICINE -- NOW COMPLETELY UPDATED FOR 2018As unprecedented numbers of travelers cross international borders each day, the need for up-to-date, practical information about the health challenges posed by travel has never been greater. For both international travelers and the health professionals who care for them, the CDC Yellow Book 2018: Health Information for International Travel is the definitive guide to staying safe and healthy anywhere in the world.The fully revised and updated 2018 edition codifies the U.S. government''s most current health guidelines and information for international travelers, including pretravel vaccine recommendations, destination-specific health advice, and easy-to-reference maps, tables, and charts. The 2018 Yellow Book also addresses the needs of specific types of travelers, with dedicated sections on: Precautions for pregnant travelers, immunocompromised travelers, and travelers with disabilities Special considerations for neTrade Review[The CDC Yellow BooK 2018] is a truly excellent and comprehensive resource * Andrew Berrington, Journal of Hospital Infection *Table of ContentsList of Boxes, Figures, Maps, and Tables, by Topic List of Maps Editorial Staff CDC Contributors External Contributors Acknowledgments In Memoriam: Dedication to Alan J. Magill Preface 1. Introduction Introduction to Travel Health & the Yellow Book Planning for Healthy Travel: CDC Travelers' Health Website and Mobile Applications Travel Epidemiology Perspectives: The Role of the Traveler in Translocation of Disease Perspectives: Why Guidelines Differ Air Travel Trends 2. The Pre-Travel Consultation The Pre-travel Consultation Perspectives: Travelers' Perception of Risk Perspectives: Prioritizing Care for the Resource-Limited Traveler Perspectives: The Need for a Cost Analysis of to Justify the Travel MedicineConsult General Recommendations for Vaccination & Immunoprophylaxis Interactions among Travel Vaccines & Drugs Perspectives: Fear of Vaccines Self-Treatable Conditions Travelers' Diarrhea Perspectives: Antibiotics in Travelers' Diarrhea -- Balancing the Risks & Benefits For the Record: A History of the Definition & Management of Travelers' Diarrhea Altitude Illness For the Record: A History of the Definition & Management of Altitude Illness Jet Lag Motion Sickness Respiratory Infections Counseling & Advice for Travelers Food & Water Precautions Perspectives: Prevention of Travelers' Diarrhea-It's Not Only WHAT You Eat & Drink Water Disinfection for Travelers Food Poisoning from Marine Toxins Protection against Mosquitoes, Ticks, & Other Arthropods Sun Exposure Problems with Heat & Cold Injury Prevention Safety & Security Animal-Associated Hazards Natural Disasters Environmental Hazards Scuba Diving Medical Tourism Discussing Complementary and/or Alternative Integrative Health Approaches with Travelers Deep Vein Thrombosis & Pulmonary Embolism Mental Health Travel Health Kits Perspectives: Pharmaceutical Quality & Counterfeit Falsified Drugs Obtaining Health Care Abroad for the Ill Traveler Travel Insurance, Travel Health Insurance, & Medical Evacuation Insurance 3. Infectious Diseases Related to Travel Amebiasis Angiostrongyliasis, Neurologic Anthrax B virus Bartonella Infections Brucellosis Campylobacteriosis Chikungunya Cholera Coccidioidomycosis Cryptosporidiosis Cutaneous Larva Migrans Cyclosporiasis Cysticercosis Dengue Diphtheria Ebola Virus Disease and Marburg Virus Disease Echinococcosis Escherichia coli, Diarrheagenic Fascioliasis Filariasis, Lymphatic Giardiasis Hand, Foot, & Mouth Disease Helicobacter pylori Helminths, Soil-Transmitted Hepatitis A Hepatitis B Hepatitis C Hepatitis E Histoplasmosis HIV Infection Influenza Japanese Encephalitis Legionellosis (Legionnaires' Disease & Pontiac Fever) Leishmaniasis, Cutaneous Leishmaniasis, Visceral Leptospirosis Lyme Disease Malaria For the Record: A History of Malaria Chemoprophylaxis Measles (Rubeola) Melioidosis Meningococcal Disease Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) Mumps Norovirus Onchocerciasis (River Blindness) Pertussis Pinworm (Enterobiasis, Oxyuriasis, Threadworm) Plague (Bubonic, Pneumonic, Septicemic) Pneumococcal Disease Poliomyelitis For the Record: A History of Polio Eradication Efforts Q Fever Rabies Perspectives: Intradermal Rabies Preexposure Immunization Rickettsial (Spotted & Typhus Fevers) & Related Infections, including Anaplasmosis & Ehrlichiosis Rubella Salmonellosis (Nontyphoidal) Sarcocystosis Scabies Schistosomiasis Sexually Transmitted Diseases Perspectives: Sex & Tourism Shigellosis Smallpox & Other Orthopoxvirus-Associated Infections Strongyloidiasis Taeniasis Tetanus Tickborne Encephalitis Toxoplasmosis Trypanosomiasis, African (Sleeping Sickness) Trypanosomiasis, American (Chagas Disease) Tuberculosis Perspectives: Tuberculin Skin Testing of Travelers Typhoid & Paratyphoid Fever Varicella (Chickenpox) Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers Yellow Fever For the Record: A History of Yellow Fever Vaccine Requirements Yersiniosis Zika Virus Yellow Fever & Malaria Information, by Country 4. Select Destinations Rationale for Select Destinations Africa & The Middle East East Africa: Safaris Saudi Arabia: Hajj/Umrah Pilgrimage South Africa Tanzania: Kilimanjaro The Americas & The Caribbean Brazil Cuba Dominican Republic Haiti Mexico Peru: Cusco-, Machu Picchu, and Other Regions Asia Burma (Myanmar) Cambodia China India Nepal Thailand Vietnam The Middle East & North Africa Egypt & Nile River Cruises Saudi Arabia: Hajj Pilgrimage 5. Post-Travel Evaluation General Approach to the Returned Traveler Fever in Returned Travelers Persistent Travelers' Diarrhea Skin & Soft Tissue Infections in Returned Travelers Screening Asymptomatic Returned Travelers 6. Conveyance & Transportation Issues Air Travel Cruise Ship Travel Perspectives: What to Expect when Traveling during an International Outbreak Death during Travel Taking Animals & Animal Products across International Borders 7. International Travel with Infants & Children Traveling Safely with Infants & Children Vaccine Recommendations for Infants & Children Travel & Breastfeeding International Adoption 8. Advising Travelers with Specific Needs Immunocompromised Travelers Travelers with Chronic Illnesses Pregnant Travelers Travelers with Disabilities Immigrants Returning Home to Visit Friends & Relatives (VFRs) Health Care Workers Advice for Air Crews Humanitarian Aid Workers Long-Term Travelers & Expatriates Perspectives: Malaria in Long-Term Travelers & Expatriates Last-Minute Travelers Special Considerations for US Military Deployments Study Abroad & Other International Student Travel Travel to Mass Gatherings Newly Arrived Immigrants & Refugees Wilderness and Expedition Medicine Work-Related Travel Immunocompromised Travelers Appendices Appendix A: Promoting Quality in the Practice of Travel Medicine Appendix B: Travel Vaccine Summary Table Appendix C: Migrant Health Resources Index Photo credits

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Book SynopsisThis book reverses the trend towards the biology getting lost in molecular detail by cutting through the information overload and placing the new sequence-derived information in the context of the natural history of the organism in question.Table of ContentsPreface Glossary Part I: An Introduction to the Background Science 1: The role of nucleic acid analysis in understanding infectious diseases 2: Some common factors involved in host-pathogen relations 3: The Three Great Pandemics of Plague Part II: Bacterial Pathogens 4: A Multifaceted Pathogen: Escherichia coli 5: Fever and Food Poisoning: The Two Faces of Salmonella 6: Understanding Pathogen Populations: Klebsiella pneumoniae 7: A Surprising Pathogen: Vibrio cholerae 8: The Accidental Pathogen: Legionella pneumophila 9: Two Related Pathogens, One Ancient and One New 10: Helicobacter pylori and Gastric Ulcers 11: A Tale of Two Pathogens: Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Pseudomonas syringae 12: The Enigmatic Pathogens: Syphilis, Yaws, Pinta, and Bejel 13: Mycobacterial Mysteries: Tuberculosis and Leprosy 14: Plasmids and Pathogenicity: The Bacillus cereus Complex 15: Tracking the Origins of Clostridium difficile Infections 16: Tracking Horizontal Gene Transfer: Staphylococcus aureus 17: The Inadvertent Pathogen: Borrelia burgdorferi and Lyme Disease 18: Phytoplasmas: Bacteria that Manipulate Plants and Insects 19: The Most Influential Bacterium: Wolbachia pipientis Part III: Eukaryotic Pathogens 20: The Ubiquitous Pathogen: Trichomonas vaginalis 21: The Greatest Killer of All Times: The Malarial Parasite 22: An Environmental Opportunistic Pathogen: Cryptococcus 23: The Most Famous Plant Pathogen: Phytophthora infestans Part IV 24: A Virus That Promotes Its Own Transfer: Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus 25: Morbilliviruses: Measles, Rinderpest and Canine Distemper 26: Filovirus Haemorrhagic Fevers: Marburg Virus and Ebola 27: The Origins of HIV and the AIDS Pandemic 28: The Benefits of a Segmented Genome: Influenza 29: Third Time Unlucky: SARS, MERS, and Covid-19 Part V: Some Unifying Themes 30: Zoonotic Diseases 31: Some Common Pathogenicity Themes

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Book SynopsisThis is a history of the Rockefeller Foundation's International Health Division (1913-1951), one of the most important public health agencies of the 20th century and a precursor of the World Health Organization. The book includes descriptions of the conflicts among the "medical barons" who ran the division.Trade Review"In this endeavour it succeeds quite well. It is well researched, highly readable, and even witty at times. To be sure, the conquest of infectious disease makes for a good story and while it is easy to get lost in the names and the places, the results speak for themselves." --International Epidemiology Association "John Farley's book is a good read. Well written, generally free of opinion and jargon, and dependent largely on primary sources, it chronicles the rise and decline of the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation from 1913 to 1951." --JAMA "...will render an important service to researchers..."--edical History "Overall there is much to recommend Farley's book...fill[s] this longstanding gap in the history of global public health."--Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences "In this endeavour it succeeds quite well. It is well researched, highly readable, and even witty at times. To be sure, the conquest of infectious disease makes for a good story and while it is easy to get lost in the names and the places, the results speak for themselves." --International Epidemiology Association "John Farley's book is a good read. Well written, generally free of opinion and jargon, and dependent largely on primary sources, it chronicles the rise and decline of the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation from 1913 to 1951." --JAMA "...will render an important service to researchers..."--Medical History "Overall there is much to recommend Farley's book...fill[s] this longstanding gap in the history of global public health."--Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied SciencesTable of Contents1. Introduction ; PART I: ROSE'S VISION ; 2. The First Stage: Rose's Vision ; 3. Rose's Vision: Tuberculosis in France (1917-1924) ; PART II: DISEASE ERADICATION ; 4. The First Hookworm Campaigns (1913-1920) ; 5. Retreat from Hookworm (1920-1930) ; 6. Yellow Fever: From Coast to Jungle ; 7. Malaria: Killing Mosquitoes and Anophilines (1915-1935) ; 8. World War II: DDT, Typhus, and Malaria ; 9. Malaria: The Ultimate Kill ; PART III: A RESEARCH PROGRAM ; 10. Reorganization and Research Laboratories (1928-1940) ; 11. Yellow Fever Vaccines: A Slap in the Face ; 12. Disease for Research ; PART IV: TRAINING THE EXPERTS ; 13. Frustrations in Sao Paulo: The Wrong Step in Rio ; 14. Northern Lights: London and Toronto ; 15. Rough Seas: Prague, Rome, Tokyo ; PART V: FINALE ; 16. Post-War Confusion: What To Do Next? ; 17. Conclusion: Swinging Pendulums

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Book SynopsisFor over half a century, the CDC Yellow Book has been a trusted resource, providing international travelers and clinicians with expert guidance for safe and healthy travel abroad. Along with disease-specific prevention and treatment recommendations, this comprehensive reference text provides readers with the background and context needed to understand and address health threats associated with all types of international travel.FEATURED IN THIS EDITION: Precautions for international travelers during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, including links to updated information on related CDC and US government websites Updates on practicing travel medicine in a virtual environment New standalone vaccine tables for bacterial and viral diseases with links to the relevant Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices and US FDA websites Safe international travel with pets and service animals Advice for obtaining healthcare abroad including guidance on different types of travel insurance Guidelines for self-treating common travel conditions including altitude illness, jet lag, motion sickness, and travelers'' diarrhea Detailed maps showing the distribution of travel-associated infections and diseases, including dengue and meningococcal meningitis Country-specific mosquito avoidance, yellow fever vaccine, and malaria prevention recommendations Food and drink precautions, plus updated water-disinfection techniques Expanded content on safe international travel for specific groups including: LGBTQ+ individuals, highly allergic travelers, travelers with substance use issues, and medical tourists Specialized recommendations for non-leisure travelers, study abroad, work-related travel, and travel to mass gatherings Health insights for 14 popular destinations and itineraries in Africa and the Middle East, the Americas and the Caribbean, and Asia Considerations for newly arrived adoptees, immigrants, and refugeesTrade ReviewA beloved travel must-have for the intrepid wanderer." -Publishers WeeklyA truly excellent and comprehensive resource." -Journal of Hospital InfectionThis is a very well-written book that provides a great explanation of the core principles of travel medicine. This [2020] edition includes updated recommendations on some of the vaccines, such as the yellow fever vaccine. An understanding of the concepts in this book serves the needs of clinicians who aim to conquer the outbreaks of infectious diseases associated with travel. (Weighted Numerical Score: 100 - 5 Stars!) * Manasa Velagapudi, Doodys *This is the gold-standard in the field of travel medicine due to its enormous scope, expertise, and ease of use. * Kenneth Schaefle, MD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Doody's Book Review *Table of ContentsList of Maps, by topic CDC Contributors External Contributors Acknowledgments Preface Dedication 1 Introduction Disease Patterns in Travelers ...perspectives: Why Guidelines Differ Maps & Travel Medicine Improving the Quality of Travel Medicine through Education & Training 2 Preparing International Travelers The Pretravel Consultation ...perspectives: Travelers' Perception of Risk Vaccination & Immunoprophylaxis-General Principles Interactions Between Travel Vaccines & Drugs Yellow Fever Vaccine & Malaria Prevention Information, by Country Travelers' Diarrhea ...perspectives: Antibiotics in Travelers' Diarrhea-Balancing Benefit & Risk Food & Water Precautions Water Disinfection Travel Health Kits Last-Minute Travelers Mental Health LGBTQ+ Travelers Complementary & Integrative Health Approaches to Travel Wellness Prioritizing Care for Resource-Limited Travelers Telemedicine ...perspectives: Risk Management Issues in Travel Medicine 3 Travelers with Additional Considerations Immunocompromised Travelers Travelers with Disabilities Travelers with Chronic Illnesses Highly Allergic Travelers Substance Use & Substance Use Disorders 4 Environmental Hazards & Risks Sun Exposure Extremes of Temperature Air Quality & Ionizing Radiation Scuba Diving: Decompression Illness & Other Dive-Related Injuries High Elevation Travel & Altitude Illness Mosquitoes, Ticks & Other Arthropods Zoonotic Exposures: Bites, Stings, Scratches & Other Hazards Zoonoses-The One Health Approach Bringing Animals & Animal Products into the United States Food Poisoning from Marine Toxins Safety & Security Overseas Injury & Trauma Death During Travel 5 Travel-Associated Infections & Diseases BACTERIAL Vaccine-Preventable Diseases: Bacterial Anthrax Bartonella Infections Brucellosis Campylobacteriosis Cholera Diphtheria Escherichia coli, Diarrheagenic Helicobacter pylori Legionnaires' Disease & Pontiac Fever Leptospirosis Lyme Disease Melioidosis Meningococcal Disease Pertussis / Whooping Cough Plague Pneumococcal Disease Q Fever Rickettsial Diseases Salmonellosis, Nontyphoidal Shigellosis Tetanus Tuberculosis ...perspectives: Testing Travelers for Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection Typhoid & Paratyphoid Fever Yersiniosis VIRAL Vaccine-Preventable Diseases: Viral B Virus Chikungunya COVID-19 Dengue Hand, Foot & Mouth Disease Henipavirus Infections Hepatitis A Hepatitis B Hepatitis C Hepatitis E Human Immunodeficiency Virus / HIV Influenza Japanese Encephalitis Middle East Respiratory Syndrome / MERS Mumps Norovirus Poliomyelitis Rabies ...perspectives: Rabies Immunization Rubella Rubeola / Measles Smallpox & Other Orthopoxvirus-Associated Infections Tick-Borne Encephalitis Varicella / Chickenpox Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers Yellow Fever Zika PARASITIC Amebiasis Angiostrongyliasis Cryptosporidiosis Cutaneous Larva Migrans Cyclosporiasis Cysticercosis Echinococcosis Enterobiasis / Pinworm Filariasis, Lymphatic Flukes, Liver Flukes, Lung Giardiasis Helminths, Soil-Transmitted Leishmaniasis, Cutaneous Leishmaniasis, Visceral Malaria Onchocerciasis / River Blindness Sarcocystosis Scabies Schistosomiasis Strongyloidiasis Taeniasis Toxoplasmosis Trypanosomiasis, African Trypanosomiasis, American / Chagas Disease FUNGAL Coccidioidomycosis / Valley Fever Histoplasmosis 6 Health Care Abroad Travel Insurance, Travel Health Insurance & Medical Evacuation Insurance Obtaining Health Care Abroad ...perspectives: Avoiding Poorly Regulated Medicines & Medical Products during Travel Medical Tourism 7 Family Travel Pregnant Travelers Travel & Breastfeeding Traveling Safely with Infants & Children Vaccine Recommendations for Infants & Children International Adoption Traveling with Pets & Service Animals 8 Travel by Air, Land & Sea Air Travel ...perspectives: Responding to Medical Emergencies when Flying Deep Vein Thrombosis & Pulmonary Embolism Jet Lag Road & Traffic Safety Cruise Ship Travel Motion Sickness Airplanes & Cruise Ships: Illness & Death Reporting & Public Health Interventions 9 Travel for Work & Other Reasons The International Business Traveler Advice for Aircrew ...perspectives: People Who Fly for a Living-Health Myths & Realities Health Care Workers, Including Public Health Researchers & Medical Laboratorians Humanitarian Aid Workers United States Military Deployments Long-Term Travelers & Expatriates Study Abroad & Other International Student Travel Visiting Friends & Relatives: VFR Travel Mass Gatherings Adventure Travel Sex & Travel 10 Popular Itineraries The Rationale for Popular Itineraries AFRICA & THE MIDDLE EAST African Safaris Saudi Arabia: Hajj & Umrah Pilgrimages South Africa Tanzania & Zanzibar THE AMERICAS & THE CARIBBEAN Brazil Dominican Republic Haiti Mexico Peru ASIA Burma (Myanmar) China India Nepal Thailand 11 Posttravel Evaluation General Approach to the Returned Traveler Rapid Diagnostic Tests for Infectious Diseases ...perspectives: Screening Asymptomatic Returned Travelers Fever in the Returned Traveler Antimicrobial Resistance Respiratory Infections Persistent Diarrhea in Returned Travelers Dermatological Conditions ...perspectives: Delusional Parasitosis Sexually Transmitted Infections Newly Arrived Immigrants, Refugees & Other Migrants

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Book SynopsisThe COVID-19 pandemic has worsened health disparities worldwide. Across all nations, the burden of COVID-19 has fallen most heavily on the socially disadvantaged. In the United States, the COVID-19 mortality rate for Black Americans is over twice that of their White American counterparts, and people in prisons have more than double the COVID-19 mortality rate of the general U.S. population. Other social dimensions such as income, gender, sexuality, and immigration status have also played a significant role in COVID-19 infection, hospitalization, and mortality. The Social Epidemiology of the COVID-19 Pandemic provides an interdisciplinary analysis of the pandemic''s effect across populations and its disproportionate impact on vulnerable groups in society, including racial/ethnic minority, immigrant, and incarcerated populations. Written by leading international scholars, this essential volume describes how the COVID-19 pandemic intersects with nearly every social determinant of health, Trade ReviewThe COVID-19 pandemic showed, yet again, that the consequences of pandemics emerge from far more than the pathogen itself. They emerge from the social conditions that set the stage for who becomes sick, who lives, and who dies. This book offers a comprehensive account of the social forces that created the COVID-19 pandemic and points to lessons we would be wise to learn if we are to mitigate the next pandemic. * Sandro Galea, MD, DrPH, Dean and Robert A. Knox Professor, School of Public Health, Boston University *The distribution and control of disease in human populations has always been profoundly and inextricably social. As these authors skillfully and exhaustively demonstrate, the COVID-19 pandemic serves as a paradigmatic case study of the social determinants of exposure, infection, and disease. Race, gender, class, and power all play starring roles in this terrible saga, along with work, housing, policing and trust. This book provides a comprehensive account of how to understand mass disease in terms of a society out of joint. * Jay S. Kaufman, PhD, Professor, School of Population and Global Health, McGill University *

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Book SynopsisFirst discovered in 1976, and long regarded as an easily manageable virus affecting isolated rural communities, Ebola rocketed to world prominence in 2014 as a deadly epidemic swept through Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia in West Africa. Thousands of people died as the extraordinarily contagious disease spread rapidly from villages to urban centres. Initial quarantine responses proved often too little and too late, and the medical infrastructure of the affected countries struggled to cope. By August 2014, several months after the start of the outbreak, the WHO declared the epidemic a public health emergency and international aid teams and volunteers began to pour in. But halting the epidemic proved to be hugely challenging, not only in terms of the practicalities of dealing with the sheer numbers of patients carrying the highly infectious virus, but in dealing with social and cultural barriers. The author, Dorothy Crawford, visited Sierra Leone while the epidemic was ongoing and met Trade ReviewThis excellent book provides an accessible account of all aspects of the virus, the disease, its history, how the dangerous 2014 epidemic developed, and how it was finally brought under controlstrongly recommended. * Professor Sir Anthony Epstein *Not only a superb story about the deadly virus but also a vivid account of human folly, frailty and bravery in combating it. * Robin A Weiss, Emeritus Professor of Viral Oncology, University College London *Table of ContentsENDNOTES; INDEX

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Book SynopsisVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Throughout history plague has been the cause of many major catastrophes. It was responsible for the ''Plague of Justinian'' in 542, the Black Death of 1348, and the Great Plague of London in 1665, as well as for devastating epidemics in China and India between the 1890s and 1920s. In the 21st century Coronavirus pandemics have served as a powerful reminder that we have not escaped the global impact of epidemic diseases. In this Very Short Introduction, Paul Slack takes a global approach to explore the historical and social impact of plague over the centuries, looking at the ways in which it has been interpreted, and the powerful images it has left behind in art and literature. Examining what plague meant for those who suffered from it, and how governments began to fight against it, he demonstrates the impact plague has had on modern notions of public health, and how it has shaped our history. This new edition also includes evidence on the nature of plague taken from recent discoveries in ancient DNA as well as new research on plague in the Middle East. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.Trade ReviewReview from previous edition Slack takes a thematic approach to the global and comparative history of plague that provides a wonderful survey for the newcomer to the topic, while still providing food for thought to readers already well versed in the literature. * Patrick Wallis, LPS *This book is not a textbook on Pasteurella pestis. Rather, using the disease it causes as a link, the text has the potential to attract the interest and attention of a wide range of readers, encompassing historical, social, geographical and economic factors and the role they played in changing European and wider social development. In these days of internet access, soundbites and the decline of text on paper, this book presents an excellent opportunity for those who wish for an absorbing and educational narrative, contained within an extremely portable package and with no risk of the battery losing its charge at an inconvenient moment. * The Bulletin of The Royal College of Pathologists, April 2013 *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction 1: Plague: what's in a name?? 2: Pandemics and epidemics 3: Big impacts: the Black Death 4: Private horrors 5: Public health 6: Enduring images 7: The lessons of histories References Further Reading Index

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Book SynopsisNeuroinfections presents 35 subjects, each with a different neurologic infectious or inflammatory disorder. A short vignette provides salient clinical symptoms and signs, laboratory studies, spinal fluid and imaging findings for each patient. A highly focused discussion leads the reader to the final diagnosis. Important features of the history, neurologic examination, findings on CSF and imaging are emphasized. There is no other book that provides a careful case description that includes all the neurologic features of 19 neurologic diseases produced by virus, as well as cases of bacterial meningitis and other infections produced by spirochetes, protozoans and prions, as well as inflammatory diseases of the nervous system of unknown etiology. A unique feature of the book is that every patient described is a real-time case that the author has seen or on whom he provided consultation. Anyone who reads every case in this book will know the essentials needed to diagnose and care for patientTrade ReviewThis is a useful, easy to read, 'charming' book highlighting the clinical presentation of common and not so common infections of the nervous system, written by one of the leaders in clinical and research neurovirology. By using the format of clinical vignettes the reader is immediately engaged and then is asked and told what to do next... Treatment is evidence based when such evidence is available and when not; the reader is provided the approach of an experienced neurologist with a career in neuroinfectious diseases... While this book serves as a resource to which one return when confronted with a patient with a clinical presentation that might well be due to infection or inflammation of the nervous system, it is also possible to simply read the book just for 'enjoyment'. I know I did. -- Robert P Lisak, MD, FRCP, FAAN, Parker Webber Chair in Neurology, Professor of Immunology and Microbiology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI Dr Gilden has written a remarkably concise and useful guide to the management of a wide range of infections of the nervous system... and he has managed the very difficult feat of giving a wealth of key information about each condition while at the same time getting over with commendable clarity all the key aetiological, clinical and management points... I am unaware of any previous book on this subject, in particular in relation to virus infections of the nervous system, which manages to present such an integrated, comprehensive, and practical approach as has been achieved here. This book will undoubtedly be of considerable value to a wide range of readers including neurologists, infectious diseases and general medicine consultants, specialist trainees, medical students and other health professionals. -- Professor Peter GE Kennedy CBE, MD, PhD, DSc, FRCP, FMedSci, FRSE, Burton Chair of Neurology, Glasgow University, College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, Scotland, UK Thirty-five succinctly analyzed and cogently discussed vignettes are written by a world renowned clinical neurologist with extensive experience in infections and inflammatory diseases of the nervous system. The cases are practical, well-written and packed with important teaching points and clinical pearls. The author does not shy away from controversy and provides strong opinions on management when scientific data is not available. This is a book that all clinical neurologists should keep on their desk. -- Professor Oded Abramsky, MD, PhD, FRCP, Chairmen Emeritus of the Department of Neurology, Dean Emeritus of the Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel "Neuroinflammatory diseases are among the most important, inherently interesting, sometimes exotic, constantly changing, and always challenging problems in medicine. In this wonderful volume, Don Gilden has brought together a lifetime of clinical experience to highlight, in an accessible case method format, both the common and the rare. The result is a unique survey of the field by one of its true giants, with insightful pedagogical insights that burst forth from every page. There is new, practical information here for everyone, from students to the most seasoned practitioner." -- Stephen L. Hauser, MD, Professor & Chair, Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, CA In this book, Dr. Gilden addresses 35 different cases of clinical infectious and inflammatory diseases of the nervous system through highly insightful presentations. Each case tells a practical story of how such diseases begin, are diagnosed and are managed and treated. -- Howard L. Lipton, MD, Department of Microbiology-Immunology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL Dr. Gilden has provided a very engaging approach to helping clinicians who care for individuals with a wide variety of infections and inflammatory diseases of the nervous system. The challenge of a case description is followed by his analysis of pathogenesis, then management, and finally bulleted "Key Points to Remember." Brief bibliographies list carefully selected references. Neuroinfections will be most useful to neurology and internal medicine residents, and to experienced clinicians who may not be dealing with these disorders on a daily basis. -- Donald Silberberg, MD, Professor and Chair Emeritus, Department of Neurology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA "This volume will have a significant place in the clinician's library. The format of 1) a case report, 2) what to do now (diagnosis and treatment), 3) key points about the infection and 4) further reading will serve as an excellent manual for students, residents and clinicians. It is clearly and concisely written and will be important in both academic settings and to private practitioners." -- Leslie P. Weiner, MD, Department of Neurology, Keck Medical Center of USC, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA "A helpful and informative summary of major etiologies of neurologic infections, in an enjoyable, easy-to-read format." -- Emerging Infectious Diseases "The narrative is very clear and well written and flows smoothly. ... It is an excellent introduction to a complicated and difficult field and should be available to the neurology resident and general neurologist as well as the specialist." --Journal of the Neurological SciencesTable of ContentsSECTION I Virus infections ; 1. Varicella Zoster Virus Vasculopathy ; 2. Aseptic Meningitis ; 3. Herpes Simplex Virus Encephalitis ; 4. HIV Encephalitis ; 5. Ramsey Hunt Syndrome ; 6. West Nile Virus Meningoencephalitis ; 7. Progressive Outer Retinal Necrosis ; 8. Rabies ; 9. Cytomegalovirus Polyradiculoneuropathy ; 10. Varicella Zoster Virus Myelopathy ; 11. Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis ; 12. Eastern Equine Encephalitis ; 13. Human Herpesvirus-6 Encephalitis ; 14. Zoster Sine Herpete ; 15. Human T-lymphotropic Virus-1 (HTLV-1) Myelopathy ; 16. Herpes Simplex Virus-2 Meningitis ; 17. HIV Vacuolar Myelopathy ; 18. Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy ; 19. Postherpetic Neuralgia ; SECTION II Bacterial, Spirochetal, Protozoan and Prion Disorders of the Nervous System ; 20. Listeria Rhombencephalitis ; 21. Neurosyphilis ; 22. Tuberculous Meningoencephalitis ; 23. Raeder's Paratrigeminal Syndrome ; 24. Fungal Meningitis ; 25. Whipple's Disease ; 26. Lyme Disease ; 27. CNS Toxoplasmosis ; 28. Cysticercosis ; 29. Jakob-Creutrzfeldt Disease ; SECTION III Inflammatory Diseases of the Nervous System of Unknown Etiology ; 30. Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis ; 31. Behcet's Disease ; 32. CNS Sarcoidosis ; 33. Giant Cell (Temporal) Arteritis ; 34. Melkersson-Rosenthal Syndrome ; 35. Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada Syndrome (Uveomeningoencephalitis)

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Book Synopsis.Trade ReviewAberth's book will be a useful guide for a new generation of students, born after AIDS cocktails made that disease more or less controllable in the mid-1990s and who are now grappling for the first time with what pandemics do to societies Whether upcoming generations adopt the "silver linings" optimism about pandemics Aberth espouses here remains to be seen. But Oxford University Press has served them well in providing this affordable and comprehensive volume. * Monica H. Green, Speculum *Aberth's clearly written book isâhighly recommended. * J.P. Byrne, emeritus, Belmont University, CHOICE *John Aberth is absolutely right that it is time for a new volume on this topic, and he seems to cover all the bases here. The prose is simultaneously expert and crystal-clear * a pleasure to read. Aberth moves easily from the historical to the scientific and back and forth between complex historiographical models in a way that even new undergraduates should be able to grasp.Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane, University of Minnesota, Morris *I love Alberth's approach to history; he covers social aspects, cultural aspects, and critical interpretation. Aberth is very good at walking students through his thinking; they will really learn about historical argument construction and the use of source evidence by reading his book. * Michael Sizer, Maryland Institute College of Art *Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Images List of Maps List of Tables About the Author Acknowledgments Preface. What was the Black Death? The Evolution and Epidemiology of Plague The Three Pandemics of Plague Paleomicrobiology Identifies the Black Death as Plague 1. "It Began in the Land of Darkness": The Geographical Origin and Spread of the Second Pandemic Where Did the Black Death Begin? How Did the Black Death Spread? Mapping the Black Death 2. Bring Out Your Dead! How Many People Died during the Great Mortality? How the Black Death Raised the Mortality Ante Plague Mortality, 1347-1353 Plague Mortality, 1353-c.1500 Why Did the Black Death End? Was the Black Death Indiscriminate? The Personal Side of Plague Mortality 3. Doctoring the Black Death: The Medical Response to Plague Causes Signs Prevention Cure The Verdict on Medieval Medicine 4. What Goes Around Comes Around: Environmental Aspects of the Black Death Environmental Causes and Signs of Plague Fear of Stenches Environmental Factors Affecting Plague Vectors: Climate Environmental Factors Affecting Plague Hosts: Rats and Housing 5. "Al Shal [Not] Be Wel": The Religious Response to the Great Mortality Spirituality and Piety in the Wake of the Plague Islam's Response to the Black Death The Problem of Post-Plague Parish Poverty Towards a Reformation? 6. "To Yow Myn Hand is Rawght to this Daunce": The Artistic Impact of the Black Death Painted Depictions of Plague The Plague Saints The Macabre or Memento Mori Physical Impacts of Plague 7. The "Red Knights of Christ": The Flagellant Movement The Flagellant Itinerary The Flagellant Ritual Perspectives on the Flagellants The Flagellants' Suppression 18. "They Processed to the Flames Dancing, Singing, and Weeping": The Artificial Poison Conspiracy First Stirrings in Southern France The Conspiracy in Catalonia The Poisoned Springs of the Savoy The Great Massacres of the Kingdom of Germany The Persecuted and Their Persecutors Aftermath of the Conspiracy 9. When Brothers Abandoned Brothers: The Social Impacts of the Black Death Fear of Being Abandoned Fear of Being Forgotten Fear of Being Unshriven Plague and the Poor 10. The Peasants are Revolting! The New Realities of the Plague Economy The Plague Economy Was There Economic Recovery After the Black Death? A Golden Age of the Laborer? The Decline of Serfdom The Peasant Land Market A Time of Transition? Epilogue. Could the Black Death Happen Again (and Would We Want It To)? Lessons to be Learned in the Modern World Appendix: The Plague Denial Controversy Bibliography

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Book SynopsisIn The greatest killer Donald R. Hopkins provides a historical account of smallpox beginning with its origins 10,000 years ago in Africa or Asia and tracing its spread through the ancient and modern worlds. Hopkins shows smallpox to be one of the most devastating attacks on society.Trade Review"This book tells the terrible history of smallpox, a saga that has new relevance given the awful possibility that someone might unleash the disease once again. It is a superb book." - former President Jimmy Carter

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Book SynopsisStates of Plagueexamines Albert Camus's novelas a palimpsest of pandemic life, an uncannily relevant account of the psychology and politics of a public health crisis. As one of the most discussed books of the COVID-19 crisis, Albert Camus's classic novelThe Plaguehas become a new kind of literary touchstone. Surrounded by terror and uncertainty, often separated from loved ones or unable to travel, readers sought answers within the pages of Camus's 1947 tale about an Algerian city gripped by an epidemic. Many found in it a story about their own livesa book to shed light on a global health crisis. In thirteen linked chapters told in alternating voices, Alice Kaplan and Laura Marris hold the past and present ofThe Plaguein conversation, discovering how the novel has reached people in their current moment. Kaplan's chapters explore the book's tangled and vivid history, while Marris's are drawn to the ecology of landscape and language. Through these pages, they find that their sense oTrade Review“Camus argued that ‘The true work of art is one that says the least.' La Peste is such a work, and States of Plague is a moving, thoughtful, and scrupulous examination of both the novel and its readers, the book’s inheritors.” * Times Literary Supplement *"Across 13 insightful, deeply personal chapters, Kaplan and Marris explore the human side of communal trauma. Many chapters provide the sociohistorical context for understanding Camus, covering topics ranging from colonial cemeteries to toxic Oranian politics, the messy denouement of world war, and beyond. Other chapters trace the author’s experiences and choices in writing the novel—his writer's block, narrative identity, and literary restraint—and how he was received by the literary establishment. Importantly, the authors avoid scholarly detachment and instead share their insightful, often vulnerable, reflections in evocative prose that serves to reinforce the deeply humanistic importance of Camus’s thought." -- L.A. Wilkinson * CHOICE *"In this mélange of history, literary analysis, and memoir, the authors explore the intersection between a celebrated novel, current realities, scholarship, language, and the tricks that time and circumstance play on all of them. Seasoned literary historian Kaplan and poet and translator Marris, whose new translation of The Plague was published in 2021, team up to cultivate a deeper understanding of Camus’ classic novel. In alternating short essays, they braid together their distinct sensibilities to offer fresh insight and added significance to a canonical mid-20th-century book. . . . This is a notable addition to the literature about an indispensable French author." * Kirkus *"This intelligent study goes a long way in highlighting Camus's enduring legacy." * Publishers Weekly *“I thought I knew both The Plague and what it brings to the story of our own plague experience. After reading Kaplan and Marris’s States of Plague, I realize I could not have been more mistaken. This is a brilliant book that is always eloquent, often insightful, and, at times, simply heartbreaking.” * Robert Zaretsky, author of "Victories Never Last: Reading and Caregiving in a Time of Plague" *“Turning the intensity of a lockdown gaze on The Plague, Kaplan and Marris restore to Camus's constrained and unsettling allegory a world of associations, from occupied Paris in World War II to crumbling colonial cemeteries in Algiers. These erudite but highly personal reflections spiral outward from careful readings of the novel, relieving the mind like the ventilation of a long-closed room.” * Emily Ogden, author of "On Not Knowing: How to Love and Other Essays" *“In States of Plague, Kaplan and Marris combine their thought-provoking personal impressions with brilliant critical analyses based on the novel’s wealth of cultural, historical, and political contexts. Their complementary readings function both as a helpful introduction to The Plague and eye-opening observations about the novel’s contemporary relevance.” * Raymond Gay-Crosier, emeritus, University of Florida *“Reading this fascinating and often meditative collection of essays by two subject experts who are skilled readers and gifted writers helps us understand the sheer importance of looking. Even if metaphors fail, even if language only serves to illuminate what is impossible to beautify, seeing what is happening in the world is the only way to engage it.” * Full Stop *Table of ContentsPreface ix 1 We, Dr. Rieux 2 Rat Eurydice 3 Les séparés 4 On Restraint 5 Fieldwork 6 Half-Life 7 Atmospheric Changes 8 Toxic City 9 The Essay Garden 10 The Endless Sentence 11 Anthologies of Insignificance 12 The Ends of Wars and Plagues Are Messy 13 Blood Memory Acknowledgments Notes Sources Index

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Book SynopsisLooking at the history of the United States with a focus on three diseases - smallpox, typhoid fever, and yellow fever, this book shows how constitutional rules and provisions that promoted individual liberty and economic prosperity also influenced the country's ability to eradicate infectious disease.Trade Review"Troesken's The Pox of Liberty fits into the broader category of works by Jared Diamond, David Landes, and Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson, as well as others who attempt to understand the relationship between disease, institutions, and economic outcomes. What I like about Troesken's book-and what I think fills a significant gap-is that instead of coming up with a singular story, he recognizes and elucidates with clear and careful prose the subtleties that exist in a complex relationship." (Melissa Thomasson, Miami University)

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Book SynopsisPandemic Societies brings together a range of experts to reflect on how their fields might be transformed in the context of our pandemic society. Examining how COVID-19 has transformed our lives, this book attempts to understand these changes and how to reinvent institutions and practices that we think of as intrinsically face to face.

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Book SynopsisPandemic Societies brings together a range of experts to reflect on how their fields might be transformed in the context of our pandemic society. Examining how COVID-19 has transformed our lives, this book attempts to understand these changes and how to reinvent institutions and practices that we think of as intrinsically face to face.

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Book SynopsisWritten for the educated patient and health care provider, Conquering Lyme Disease gives an up-to-the-minute overview of the science that is transforming the way we address this complex illness. Brian A. Fallon and Jennifer Sotsky argue forcefully that the expanding plague of Lyme and other tick-borne diseases can be confronted successfully.Trade ReviewLyme disease is a more complicated and nuanced illness than has been previously recognized. Fallon and Sotsky's experience with the neuropsychological manifestations of Lyme, combined with their insights into the current patient experience, make this book a significant addition to the literature. A well-organized, comprehensive treatment of Lyme disease and the associated issues that patients face. -- John Aucott, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Lyme Disease Research CenterTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPreface Basic Terminology1. What Is Lyme Disease?2. The Early History and Epidemiologic Surveillance3. What Are the Symptoms and Signs of Lyme Disease?4. What Do the Diagnostic Tests Tell Us?5. The Great Divide and the Lyme Wars6. Why Would Symptoms Persist After Antibiotic Treatment?7. What Are the Treatments for Lyme Disease? 8. Other Tick-Borne Infections9. What Other Non-infectious Diseases Cause Lyme-Like Symptoms?10. Lyme Disease Prevention and Transmission11. Suggestions to the Patient Seeking Evaluation or Treatment12. The Experience of the Patient with Chronic Symptoms13. Frequently Asked Questions14. The Good News Emerging from Lyme Disease ResearchGeneric (Brand) Drug NamesGlossary of TermsReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisRethinking Readiness offers an expert introduction to human-made threats and vulnerabilities, with a focus on opportunities to reimagine how we approach disaster preparedness. Jeff Schlegelmilch identifies and explores the most critical threats facing the world today.Trade ReviewIt is often said that the tragedy of 9/11 was rooted in a failure to imagine a disaster of that particular character and scale. Jeff Schlegelmilch reminds us once again of the continued relevance of that hard-earned lesson. He guides us through extreme but plausible scenarios of some of the most existential threats we face—biological catastrophe, cyber infrastructure collapse, and other civilization-altering events—providing a straightforward account of what could be in store for us if we fail to invest in prevention and mitigation. Rethinking Readiness forces our leaders to answer the question—have we done all we can? Now is the time to imagine! -- Tom Ridge, forty-third governor of Pennsylvania and first U.S. Secretary of Homeland SecurityThis timely book both looks ahead to the mega-disasters on the horizon—disasters that tank economies, shred infrastructure, and take lives—and outlines how communities can start preparing now. It is an essential guide for policy makers and concerned citizens alike who want to build a better future. -- Alice C. Hill, former senior director of resilience policy on the National Security CouncilCovering a wide range of natural hazards and man made threats, Schlegelmilch's book pushes us to think through the question that we ask all too often: are we truly prepared? With chapters on biothreats, climate change, critical infrastructure failure, cyberthreats, and nuclear conflict, he sets out a framework to ensure that we take serious risks head on and build resilience to them. A must read. -- Daniel P. Aldrich, author of Black Wave and Building Resilience and director of the Security and Resilience Program at Northeastern UniversityRethinking Readiness brings information on the scientific elements and socially constructed origins of megadisasters together in a clear and organized way. Schlegelmilch illustrates the interconnectivity of multiple drivers, showing how research and practice should consider these if we are to reach a more sustainable future. -- Ksenia Chmutina, coauthor of Disaster Risk Reduction for the Built EnvironmentSchlegelmilch provides a new perspective on the major threats and vulnerabilities facing modern society. Readers will find the discussion of megadisasters intriguing and the argument for better preparation compelling. Rethinking Readiness argues for a broader view of disasters and for a sustained effort to reduce the threats and societal vulnerability. -- William L. Waugh Jr., Professor Emeritus, Georgia State UniversityRethinking Readiness is a must-read for everyone committed to understanding the most existential threats we face, reinforced by the inclusion of multiple examples of inadequate response, including the identification of risks, opportunities, and misapplications embedded in practice. Compelling reading. * The Hindu Business Line *Table of ContentsForewordPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Biothreats2. Climate Change3. Critical Infrastructure Failure4. Cyberthreats5. Nuclear Conflict6. Crosscutting Threats and VulnerabilitiesConclusion: Investing in Today, Investing in TomorrowNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisRethinking Readiness offers an expert introduction to human-made threats and vulnerabilities, with a focus on opportunities to reimagine how we approach disaster preparedness. Jeff Schlegelmilch identifies and explores the most critical threats facing the world today.Trade ReviewIt is often said that the tragedy of 9/11 was rooted in a failure to imagine a disaster of that particular character and scale. Jeff Schlegelmilch reminds us once again of the continued relevance of that hard-earned lesson. He guides us through extreme but plausible scenarios of some of the most existential threats we face—biological catastrophe, cyber infrastructure collapse, and other civilization-altering events—providing a straightforward account of what could be in store for us if we fail to invest in prevention and mitigation. Rethinking Readiness forces our leaders to answer the question—have we done all we can? Now is the time to imagine! -- Tom Ridge, forty-third governor of Pennsylvania and first U.S. Secretary of Homeland SecurityThis timely book both looks ahead to the mega-disasters on the horizon—disasters that tank economies, shred infrastructure, and take lives—and outlines how communities can start preparing now. It is an essential guide for policy makers and concerned citizens alike who want to build a better future. -- Alice C. Hill, former senior director of resilience policy on the National Security CouncilCovering a wide range of natural hazards and man made threats, Schlegelmilch's book pushes us to think through the question that we ask all too often: are we truly prepared? With chapters on biothreats, climate change, critical infrastructure failure, cyberthreats, and nuclear conflict, he sets out a framework to ensure that we take serious risks head on and build resilience to them. A must read. -- Daniel P. Aldrich, author of Black Wave and Building Resilience and director of the Security and Resilience Program at Northeastern UniversityRethinking Readiness brings information on the scientific elements and socially constructed origins of megadisasters together in a clear and organized way. Schlegelmilch illustrates the interconnectivity of multiple drivers, showing how research and practice should consider these if we are to reach a more sustainable future. -- Ksenia Chmutina, coauthor of Disaster Risk Reduction for the Built EnvironmentSchlegelmilch provides a new perspective on the major threats and vulnerabilities facing modern society. Readers will find the discussion of megadisasters intriguing and the argument for better preparation compelling. Rethinking Readiness argues for a broader view of disasters and for a sustained effort to reduce the threats and societal vulnerability. -- William L. Waugh Jr., Professor Emeritus, Georgia State UniversityRethinking Readiness is a must-read for everyone committed to understanding the most existential threats we face, reinforced by the inclusion of multiple examples of inadequate response, including the identification of risks, opportunities, and misapplications embedded in practice. Compelling reading. * The Hindu Business Line *Table of ContentsForewordPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Biothreats2. Climate Change3. Critical Infrastructure Failure4. Cyberthreats5. Nuclear Conflict6. Crosscutting Threats and VulnerabilitiesConclusion: Investing in Today, Investing in TomorrowNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book tells the dramatic story of the Wuhan lockdown in the voices of the city's own people. Using a vast archive of more than 6,000 diaries, the sociologist Guobin Yang vividly depicts how the city coped during the crisis.Trade ReviewGuobin Yang paints a vivid and deeply moving portrait of ordinary people who suddenly find themselves at the epicenter of a frightening new disease. Based on dozens of online 'lockdown diaries' written by Wuhan residents, this book offers a revealing and humanizing perspective on one of the most controversial and consequential events of our time. -- Elizabeth J. Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Harvard UniversityThis brilliant book offers two expertly intertwined accounts. In the first, local diarists narrate the terror, boredom, and creativity of Wuhan residents as they lived through an emerging catastrophe. In the second, Yang shows how the Party, social media, health workers, patients, and citizen activists shaped people’s understandings of what was happening to their community. -- Gail Hershatter, University of California, Santa CruzThe Wuhan Lockdown documents ordinary people’s lives, sentiments, and activities during the pandemic in such an engaging and immersive fashion that when reading the manuscript, I felt like I was watching a documentary. This book allowed me to relive what people in Wuhan have gone through the pandemic. It is truly incredible how timely it is. -- Rongbin Han, author of Contesting Cyberspace in China: Online Expression and Authoritarian ResilienceHe presents a far more detailed and nuanced view than the US media ever did, allowing those of us would limited knowledge about China and the Chinese lockdown to have a greater and clearer understanding of what happened. * Fish Shelf *A thorough account of the events leading to the Covid-19 lockdown in Wuhan, China, in early 2020, drawing from dozens of personal accounts ('lockdown diaries'). * Kirkus Reviews (starred review) *A uniquely valuable contribution to the growing literature on COVID-19 as well as that on contemporary China. * Los Angeles Review of Books *Enriched by Yang's expert understanding of Chinese culture and politics, this is a valuable record of the early stages of the pandemic. * Publishers Weekly *Yang has crafted a fascinating portrait of modern China, capturing subtleties and sensitivities that mainstream European and North American media are typically content to ignore. * Lancet *[An] immaculate page-turner. * Lancet Infectious Disease *A forceful and timely reminder of the profound impact that COVID continues to have on ordinary people's lives. * China Review *Absolutely fabulous! The book can be read by everyone and I highly recommend it. * AI Femminile *Anyone interested in epidemiology or the history of global pandemics will find this a riveting account of the most recent such crisis due to COVID-19 and its socioeconomic, political—but especially human—ramifications in China and beyond. * Choice *This book would be useful not only for social psychology and medical sociology courses, but also for the general reader hoping to gain perspective from the Chinese people on the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. * H-Sci-Med-Tech *In his study of the Covid experience in Wuhan and beyond, Yang encompasses the positive and negative aspects of how the Chinese people coped with the dangers, threats and tragedies of the emergency. * Asian Affairs *A vivid and highly readable account. * China Quarterly *An exemplary study of the possibilities of online research methodologies as well as an empirically and theoretically rich account of the starting months of the pandemic. * Global Media and China *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1. Festivities, Interrupted2. Road to Apocalypse3. People’s War4. Lockdown Diaries5. Fire and Thunder6. Civic Organizing7. Game of Words8. COVID Nationalism9. Mourning and RememberingConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisJudith Butler shows how COVID-19 and all its consequences—political, social, ecological, economic—challenge us to develop a new account of interdependency. Butler argues for a radical social equality and advocates modes of resistance that seek to establish new conditions of livability and a new sense of a shared world.Trade ReviewThrough a thorough philosophical accounting of the moral imperatives of living in a globalized society, Butler makes a rousing case for pushing progressive policies as a response to the disruptions of the pandemic. Thoughtful and profound, this hits the mark. * Publishers Weekly *By investigating the world's disunity, Butler provides an excellent text where readers can reflect on how the pandemic affected us all and what it revealed about the nature of our national and global realities. . . Butler challenges readers to think more deeply about how they share their physical and social space with other humans to assemble a more interconnected and livable world. * Philosophy in Review *'Death and illness have been quite literally in the air,' writes Judith Butler in this stunningly poignant study. Phenomenology, they argue, speaks to moments when, every now and then, many, if not all of us, are reminded of the eventual end of the world, and, even more, worlds. That harbinger knocks at the door in 'this' world in which 'all' now at least attempt, despite and even because of tragedy, to live. Addressing the pan-demos, the people everywhere and our interconnectedness, permeability, and irreplaceability, Butler challenges the hubris of imagined protection from the 'external' and articulates the ebb, flow, fragility, and precarity of life beyond idols—beyond, in their word, 'pretense'—of self-sustained and hoarded power. In the spirit of repair, they ask us to embrace responsibility for conditions of radical equality and nonviolence on which livable lives depend, a common world of the symbiosis of breath and touch in the sociality of life. A beautiful and profound offering for our times and beyond. -- Lewis R. Gordon, author of Fear of Black ConsciousnessA thoughtful meditation on what it means to share a world with others in a time of global pandemic and climate change, from a philosopher who has already taught us so much about livable and grievable lives. This book offers a deeply human perspective on life at the edge of disaster. -- Lisa Guenther, author of Solitary Confinement: Social Death and its AfterlivesIn this remarkable meditation, Judith Butler draws together the key strands of their thought—from bodies that matter to melancholia to grievability to nonviolence—and offers a manifesto for our time. Turning to phenomenology, they make the urgent case for a new form of global responsibility based on the deepest entwinement of everyone to each other, to the earth we live on, and to the air we breathe. Nobody else could have made it. What World Is This? offers hope in a cruel and endangered world. -- Jacqueline Rose, author of On Violence and On Violence Against WomenIn this timely and important book, Butler pays careful attention to the specifics of our contemporary situation with startling clarity, bringing their inimitable voice and philosophical resources to the questions of what it means for life to be livable, what it means for the earth to be inhabitable, what it means for an entity to be grievable, and the ways the COVID-19 pandemic has cast these questions into relief, at the same time marking how intimately entwined with each other they are. -- Amy Hollywood, author of Acute Melancholia and Other Essays: Mysticism, History, and the Study of ReligionTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Senses of the World: Scheler and Merleau-Ponty2. Powers in the Pandemic: Reflections on Restricted Life3. Intertwining as Ethics and Politics4. Grievability for the LivingPostscript: TransformationsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisJudith Butler shows how COVID-19 and all its consequencespolitical, social, ecological, economicchallenge us to develop a new account of interdependency. Butler argues for a radical social equality and advocates modes of resistance that seek to establish new conditions of livability and a new sense of a shared world.Trade ReviewThrough a thorough philosophical accounting of the moral imperatives of living in a globalized society, Butler makes a rousing case for pushing progressive policies as a response to the disruptions of the pandemic. Thoughtful and profound, this hits the mark. * Publishers Weekly *By investigating the world's disunity, Butler provides an excellent text where readers can reflect on how the pandemic affected us all and what it revealed about the nature of our national and global realities. . . Butler challenges readers to think more deeply about how they share their physical and social space with other humans to assemble a more interconnected and livable world. * Philosophy in Review *'Death and illness have been quite literally in the air,' writes Judith Butler in this stunningly poignant study. Phenomenology, they argue, speaks to moments when, every now and then, many, if not all of us, are reminded of the eventual end of the world, and, even more, worlds. That harbinger knocks at the door in 'this' world in which 'all' now at least attempt, despite and even because of tragedy, to live. Addressing the pan-demos, the people everywhere and our interconnectedness, permeability, and irreplaceability, Butler challenges the hubris of imagined protection from the 'external' and articulates the ebb, flow, fragility, and precarity of life beyond idols—beyond, in their word, 'pretense'—of self-sustained and hoarded power. In the spirit of repair, they ask us to embrace responsibility for conditions of radical equality and nonviolence on which livable lives depend, a common world of the symbiosis of breath and touch in the sociality of life. A beautiful and profound offering for our times and beyond. -- Lewis R. Gordon, author of Fear of Black ConsciousnessA thoughtful meditation on what it means to share a world with others in a time of global pandemic and climate change, from a philosopher who has already taught us so much about livable and grievable lives. This book offers a deeply human perspective on life at the edge of disaster. -- Lisa Guenther, author of Solitary Confinement: Social Death and its AfterlivesIn this remarkable meditation, Judith Butler draws together the key strands of their thought—from bodies that matter to melancholia to grievability to nonviolence—and offers a manifesto for our time. Turning to phenomenology, they make the urgent case for a new form of global responsibility based on the deepest entwinement of everyone to each other, to the earth we live on, and to the air we breathe. Nobody else could have made it. What World Is This? offers hope in a cruel and endangered world. -- Jacqueline Rose, author of On Violence and On Violence Against WomenIn this timely and important book, Butler pays careful attention to the specifics of our contemporary situation with startling clarity, bringing their inimitable voice and philosophical resources to the questions of what it means for life to be livable, what it means for the earth to be inhabitable, what it means for an entity to be grievable, and the ways the COVID-19 pandemic has cast these questions into relief, at the same time marking how intimately entwined with each other they are. -- Amy Hollywood, author of Acute Melancholia and Other Essays: Mysticism, History, and the Study of ReligionTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Senses of the World: Scheler and Merleau-Ponty2. Powers in the Pandemic: Reflections on Restricted Life3. Intertwining as Ethics and Politics4. Grievability for the LivingPostscript: TransformationsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisWhy the news about the global decline of infectious diseases is not all good.Plagues and parasites have played a central role in world affairs, shaping the evolution of the modern state, the growth of cities, and the disparate fortunes of national economies. This book tells that story, but it is not about the resurgence of pestilence. It is the story of its decline. For the first time in recorded history, virus, bacteria, and other infectious diseases are not the leading cause of death or disability in any region of the world. People are living longer, and fewer mothers are giving birth to many children in the hopes that some might survive. And yet, the news is not all good. Recent reductions in infectious disease have not been accompanied by the same improvements in income, job opportunities, and governance that occurred with these changes in wealthier countries decades ago. There have also been unintended consequences. In this book, Thomas Bollyky explores the paradox in ou

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Book SynopsisA collection of short comics about the COVID-19 pandemic. Diverse artists address disruptions in work, school, and family life as well as failures in public policy, racial biases, and systemic inequalities revealed by the pandemic.Trade Review“In a diverse, impassioned book, these quick responders illustrate the impact of the pandemic with work of lasting value.”—starred review Kirkus Reviews“COVID Chronicles will prove to be an indispensable work of graphic medicine, a testimony to a dark but unforgettable chapter in our common history.”—A. David Lewis,author of The Lone and Level Sands“Impassioned and impressive. . . . Captures the anxiety, courage, and surreality of the current era with a visceral quality that lingers.”—Publishers Weekly“As a taxonomy of the many voices around the pandemic, COVID Chronicles is a substantial and wide-ranging anthology.”—Bruno Savill de Jong Broken Frontier“By all counts, this is a significant and monumental work. We see where we are, where we’ve been, and where we’re headed. Each story here has something important to share and the book adds up to an authentic and valuable response to one of the greatest challenges of our lives.”—Comics Grinder“Never has the need for empathetic, well-rounded, and intelligent physicians been more crucial to the betterment of society. COVID Chronicles will be a fantastic addition to any library's medical humanities collection given its relevance to the current social, cultural, and political climate. The artists' stunning illustrations and relatable prose will at once make the reader laugh and cry, feel enraged and hopeful.”—Tenley Sablatzky Journal of the Medical Library Association“This collection offers unique, informative descriptions in meditative or documentary-style narratives to the global experience of living through the pandemic. It is diverse in expression and information. Graphic medicine is an impactful medium to discuss observations during global trauma and this is a unique collection.”—Suzanne Jeanette Larsen Doody's Review Service“Making sense of the past year is no easy task; it requires an anthropologist’s eye and a psychologist’s ear, an artist’s observation and a writer’s empathy. The complex form of comics is ideally suited to this task, and COVID Chronicles is impressive as both an archive of the new normal of COVID-19 and a provocation to never return to the old normal.”—Candida Rifkind Winnipeg Free Press“A broad range of voices covers pandemic experiences in every facet of our lives, from housing to mental health to historical context. Together, these stories highlight the medium’s inherent strengths in conveying our complex humanity. Essential and accessible.”—Nate Powell,artist of the March trilogy“COVID Chronicles embodies what comics can do so well: it’s an extraordinary and diverse collection of graphic narratives that bear witness to the pandemic as it continues to rage.”—Josh Neufeld,author of A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge“Like the way panels and gutter space work together in a single comic, the stories in COVID Chronicles work together to link a remarkable variety of experiences from this shared pandemic while simultaneously connecting with the reader’s own life and imagination. This is the power of such volumes: to relate, to inform, to unify, and to witness. COVID Chronicles will prove to be an indispensable work of graphic medicine, a testimony to a dark but unforgettable chapter in our common history.”—A. David Lewis,author of The Lone and Level Sands“Wonderful art often emerges from pain and its rippling effects. The virus offers this silver lining of talented folks sharing their moments from 2020's year of hell.”—Paul Levitz,author of 75 Years of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Mythmaking

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Book SynopsisUtilizing the cross-disciplinary approach of global studies, contagion emerges as a vexed trope for globalization itselfTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction The Hydra of Contagion Bruce Magnusson and Zahi Zalloua 1 Rethinking the War on Terror New Approaches to Conflict Prevention and Management in the Post-9/11 World Paul B. Stares and Mona Yacoubian 2 Epidemic Intelligence Toward a Genealogy of Global Health Security Andrew Lakoff 3 The Aesthetic Emergency of the Avian Flu Affect Geoffrey Whitehall 4 Bio Terror Hybridity in the Biohorror Narrative, or What We Can Learn from Our Monsters Priscilla Wald 5 Contagion, Contamination, and Don DeLillo’s Post–Cold War World-System Steps toward a Haptical Theory of Culture Christian Moraru 6 Contagion of Intellectual Traditions in Post-9/11 Novels Alberto S. Galindo Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisA study of the great epidemic scourges of humanity over the last six centuries. It examines the connections between the movement of epidemics and the manifestations of imperial power in the Americas, Asia, Africa, and Europe, showing how perceptions of whom a disease targeted changed over time.

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Trade Review“Discovering Tuberculosis provides a deep historical account of why tuberculosis remains a major threat to global health, despite more than seventy years of efforts. Taking readers from Kenya to the ‘expert committees’ in Geneva, this book shows how economic dogma trumped science in shaping global health policy in the twentieth century.”—Salmaan Keshavjee, author of Blind Spot: How Neoliberalism Infiltrated Global Health -- Salmaan Keshavjee“McMillen’s impressive global history of TB shows why it is essential that TB workers and policymakers understand the histories of past control efforts and the local settings and political contingencies that shaped them.”—Randall Packard, author of White Plague, Black Labor: Tuberculosis and the Political Economy of Health and Disease in South Africa -- Randall Packard“Once seen as a disease of the past, tuberculosis is making a frightening revival. McMillen crosses geographical, temporal, and disciplinary boundaries in this transnational history of global eradication efforts. Discovering Tuberculosis eloquently and disturbingly explains how and why TB remains such a durable scourge today.”—Matthew Klingle, Bowdoin College -- Matthew Klingle“Based on an impressive reading of the medical literature and some rich archival collections, this book does much with the history of tuberculosis into the early 2000s, with a focus on global TB policy that will be quite useful for the many people interested and involved today in TB control.”—David S. Jones, author of Rationalizing Epidemics: Meanings and Uses of American Indian Mortality since 1600 -- David S. Jones“Despite breakthroughs, our attempt to rein in tuberculosis continues to include setbacks, frustration, and failure. McMillen’s important study shows why.”—Booklist * Booklist *“Readers . . . will learn a great deal from this fascinating look at an old disease that is still very much with us.”—Library Journal * Library Journal *

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Book SynopsisAn urgent case for how we could have stopped the Covid-19 pandemic—and how to make sure it never happens again'MacKenzie's fascinating book gives us the scope and scale to be able to put this pandemic in perspective and, it begs the question, will we learn from this in time to prevent to next one?'—Molly Caldwell Crosby, bestselling author of The American Plague.*Named one of the Best Science Books of the Year by the Financial Times*The Covid-19 pandemic has left a trail of loss, misery, and economic ruin in its wake. With such destruction, can there be any silver lining? As veteran science journalist Debora MacKenzie illuminates in this captivating, acclaimed book, there is one: with the lessons learned from this disaster, we can stop it from happening again.         Here, in this fully revised and updated edition, she lays out the full story in accessible, gripping detail: the previous viruses that should have prepared us, the shocking public health failures that led to this catastrophe, the wrong decisions made at every turn. And employing what we have learned about viruses, vaccines, inequality, global cooperation, and more, she charts a bold, optimistic path forward for protecting humanity from threats to come. There is no question that more viruses are on the way, and we are still unprepared. But if we learn from our mistakes and heed the vision MacKenzie lays out in this book, we might avoid going through a nightmare like this – or worse - ever again.

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Book SynopsisThis volume examines our understanding of the relationships among microbes, disease vectors and human hosts, and explores possible new strategies for meeting the challenge of resistance.Table of Contents1 Front Matter; 2 Summary and Assessment; 3 1. Introduction; 4 2. Microbe Resistance; 5 3. Vector Resistance; 6 4. The Economics of Resistance; 7 5. Factors Contributing to the Emergence of Resistance; 8 6. Emerging Tools and Technology for Countering Resistance; 9 7 Strategies to Contain the Development and Consquences of Resistance; 10 Appendix A: Publc Health Consquences of Use of Antimicrobial Agents in Agriculture; 11 Appendix B: Agenda: Issues of Resistance: Microbes,Vectors, and the Host; 12 Appendix C: Information Resources; 13 Appendix D: Executive Summary: WHO Report; 14 Appendix E: Executive Summary: GFHR Report; 15 Appendix F: Executive Summary: Interagency Task Force Report; 16 Appendix G: Forum Member, Speaker, and Staff Biographies

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Book SynopsisSince the onset of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in early 2020, many individuals infected with the virus that causes COVID-19, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), have continued to experience lingering symptoms for months or even years following infection. Some symptoms can affect a person's ability to work or attend school for an extended period of time. Consequently, in 2022, the Social Security Administration requested that the National Academies convene a committee of relevant experts to investigate and provide an overview of the current status of diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis of long-term health effects related to Long COVID. This report presents the committee conclusions. Table of ContentsFront MatterSummary1 Introduction2 Diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 Infection3 Selected Long-Term Health Effects Stemming from COVID-19 and Functional Implications4 Global Functioning in Long COVID5 Chronic Conditions Similar to Long COVID6 Overall ConclusionsAppendix A: Public Meeting AgendasAppendix B: Literature Search StrategiesAppendix C: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members

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Book SynopsisA piercing and scientifically grounded look at the emergence of the coronavirus pandemic and how it will change the way we live—'excellent and timely.' (The New Yorker) Apollo's Arrow offers a riveting account of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic as it swept through American society in 2020, and of how the recovery will unfold in the coming years. Drawing on momentous (yet dimly remembered) historical epidemics, contemporary analyses, and cutting-edge research from a range of scientific disciplines, bestselling author, physician, sociologist, and public health expert Nicholas A. Christakis explores what it means to live in a time of plague—an experience that is paradoxically uncommon to the vast majority of humans who are alive, yet deeply fundamental to our species.Unleashing new divisions in our society as well as opportunities for cooperation, this 21st-century pandemic has upended our lives in ways that will tes

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Book SynopsisA piercing and scientifically grounded look at the emergence of the coronavirus pandemic and how it will change the way we live—'excellent and timely.' (The New Yorker) Apollo's Arrow offers a riveting account of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic as it swept through American society in 2020, and of how the recovery will unfold in the coming years. Drawing on momentous (yet dimly remembered) historical epidemics, contemporary analyses, and cutting-edge research from a range of scientific disciplines, bestselling author, physician, sociologist, and public health expert Nicholas A. Christakis explores what it means to live in a time of plague—an experience that is paradoxically uncommon to the vast majority of humans who are alive, yet deeply fundamental to our species.Unleashing new divisions in our society as well as opportunities for cooperation, this 21st-century pandemic has upended our lives in ways that will tes

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This book is easy to read, packed with a nice amount of useful information, and quite enjoyable.It focuses on many common conditions and syndromes that healthcare practitioners might encounter." -John S Czachor, MD (Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine) for Doody's Review ServiceTable of ContentsGraphic Guide to Infectious Disease Section 1. Viral Hepatitis 1.2. Hepatitis A 1.3. Hepatitis B 1.4. Hepatitis B-Serum Markers 1.5. Hepatitis C 1.6. Hepatitis D 1.7. Hepatitis E Section 2. Infectious Diarrhea 2.1. Bacterial 2.1.1. Shigellosis 2.1.2. Salmonellosis 2.1.3. Cholera 2.1.4. Campylobacteriosis 2.1.5. Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia Coli 2.1.6. Enterotoxigenic Escherichia Coli 2.1.7. Yersiniosis 2.1.8. Clostridium Difficile Infection 2.1.9. Vibriosis 2.2. Viral 2.2.1. Norovirus 2.2.2. Rotavirus 2.3. Protozoan 2.3.1. Giardiasis 2.3.2. Cryptosporidiosis 2.3.3. Amebiasis Section 3. Childhood Illness 3.1. Measles 3.2. Mumps 3.3. Rubella 3.4. Erythema Infectiousum 3.5. Examthum Subitum 3.6. Chickenpox 3.7. Congenital and Perinatal Infections 3.8. Pertussis 3.9. Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease 3.10. Bronchiolitis 3.11. Kawasaki Disease 3.12. Croup Section 4. Tick Borne Illness 4.1Tick Borne Illness and Ticks as Vectors 4.2. Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever 4.3 Lyme Disease 4.4 Ehrlichiosis 4.5. Anaplasmosis 4.6. Babesiosis 4.7. Tularemia 4.8. Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever 4.9. Colorado Tick Fever Section 5. Worms 5.1. Roundworms 5.1.1. Ascariasis 5.1.2. Filariasis 5.1.3. Onchocerciasis 5.1.4. Pinworms 5.1.5. Hookworm 5.1.6. Whipworm 5.1.7. Trichinosis 5.1.8. Dracunculiasis 5.1.9. Cutaneous Larva Migrans 5.1.10. Threadworm 5.2. Tapeworms 5.2.1. Pork Tapeworm and Cysticercosis 5.2.2. Broad Fish Tapeworm 5.2.3. Beef Tapeworm 5.2.4. Dog Tapeworm 5.2.5. Dwarf Tapeworm 5.3 Flatworms 5.3.1. Schistosomiasis 5.3.2. Liver Fluke 5.3.3. Lung Fluke Section 6. Fungal 6.1. Sporotrichosis 6.2. Paracoccidiomycosis 6.3. Coccidiomycosis 6.4. Blastomycosis 6.5. Histoplasmosis 6.6. Tinea Infections of Skin 6.7. Tinea Versicolor 6.8. Aspergillosis 6.9. Mucormycosis Section 7. Sexually Transmitted Diseases 7.1. Gonorrhea 7.2. Condyloma Acuminata 7.3. Pubic Lice 7.4. Syphilis 7.5. Chlamydia 7.6. Trachoma 7.7. Reactive Arthritis 7.8. Herpes Simplex 7.9. Trichomoniasis 7.10. Scabies 7.11. Chancroid 7.12. Donovanosis 7.13. Vaginitis 7.14. Molluscum Contagiosum 7.15. Lymphogranuloma Venereum Section 8. Pulmonary 8.1. Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome 8.2. Tuberculosis 8.3. Legionnaires' Disease 8.4. Psittacosis 8.5. Avian Influenza 8.6. Influenza 8.7. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Section 9. Mosquito Borne Illness 9.1. Zika Fever 9.2. Dengue 9.3. Yellow Fever 9.4. Malaria 9.5. Encephalitis 9.6. Chikungunya Section 10. Rat Borne Illness 10.1. Hanta Virus 10.1.1. Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome 10.1.2. Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome 10.2. Plague 10.3. Leptospirosis 10.4. Rat Bite Fever 10.5. Trench Fever 10.6. Scrub Typhus 10.7. Epidemic Typhus 10.8. Endemic (Murine) Typhus 10.9. Arenaviridae Section 11. Oropharyngeal 11.1. Peritonsillar Abscess 11.2. Diphtheria 11.3. Herpangina 11.4. Thrush 11.5. Streptococcal Pharyngitis Section 12. Viral 12.1. Ebola 12.2. Rabies 12.3. AIDS: Opportunistic Infections 12.4. Smallpox 12.5. Mononucleosis 12.5. Polio Section 13. Parasites and Prions 13.1. Chagas Disease 13.2. African Sleeping Sickness 13.3. Pediculosis 13.4. Naegleriasis 13.5. Prion Diseases Section14. Bacterial 14.1. Anthrax 14.2. Botulism 14.3. Brucellosis 14.4. Typhoid Fever 14.5. Cat Scratch Fever 14.6. Leprosy 14.7. Infective Endocarditis 14.8. Tetanus 14.9. Listeriosis 14.10. Q Fever 14.11. Melioidosis

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is an excellent resource for any pathologist who wants to brush up on infectious histopathology or to have scope-side for expert consultation. Microbiologists will love the clinical correlate to the microorganisms with which they're so familiar. Users of the first edition will be pleased with the update and pathologists looking for a new reference for infectious histopathology can stop here!" Reviewed by Sarah L. Rooney, BA, MD (University of Michigan Medical School) Doody's Score: 96, 4 Stars!Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. General Principles in the Diagnosis of Infection 3. Biopsy in the Diagnosis of Infection: Clinical Approach 4. Cytopathology of Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases 5. Ultrastructural Diagnosis of Infection 6. New Techniques for the Diagnosis of Infection 7. Ear, Nose, and Throat Infections 8. Pathology of Pulmonary Infection 9. Cardiac Infections 10. Infections of the Gastrointestinal Tract 11. Liver and Bile Duct Infections 12. Infectious Lymphadenitis 13. Infectious Diseases of the Bone Marrow and Spleen 14. Infection of Bone 15. Infections of Joints, Synovium-lined Structures, and Soft Tissue 16. Genitourinary Infectious Disease Pathology 17. Gynecological Infections 18. Perinatal Infections 19. Infections of the Nervous System 20. Skin Infections 21. Infections of the Eye and Its Adnex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The chapters are full of excellent tables clearly delineating important elements, including many algorithms describing the approach to specific problems." -Winnie W Ooi, MD, MPH, DMD (Harvard Medical School) Doody's Score: 91-4 Stars!Table of ContentsSection 1: Practice of Travel Medicine 1. Introduction to Travel Medicine 2. Epidemiology: Morbidity and Mortality in Travelers 3. Starting, Organizing and Marketing a Travel Clinic 4. Pre-travel Consultation Section 2: The Pre-Travel Consultation 5. Water Disinfection for International Travelers 6. Insect Protection 7. Pre-travel Considerations for Non-Vaccine-Preventable Travel Infections 8. Travel Medicine Kits Section 3: Immunization 9. Principles of Immunization 10. Routine Adult Vaccines 11. Routine Travel Vaccines: Hepatitis A and B, Typhoid 12. Recommended/Required Travel Vaccines 13. Pediatric Travel Vaccinations Section 4: Malaria 14. Malaria: Epidemiology and Risk to the Traveler 15. Malaria Chemoprophylaxis 16. Self-Diagnosis and Self-Treatment of Malaria by the Traveler 17. Approach to Patient with Malaria Section 5: Travelers' Diarrhea 18. Epidemiology of Travelers' Diarrhea 19. Prevention of Travelers' Diarrhea 20. Clinical Presentation and Management of Travelers' Diarrhea 21. Persistent Gastrointestinal Symptoms in the Ill-Returning Traveler Section 6: Travelers with Special Needs 22. The Pregnant and Breastfeeding Traveler 23. The Pediatric and Adolescent Traveler 24. The Older Traveler 25. The Physically Challenged Traveller 26. The Traveler with Pre-Existing Disease 27. The Immunocompromised Traveller 28. The Traveler with HIV 29. The Business Traveler 30. The VIP Traveler: Mission-Oriented Travel Medicine 31. Health Aspects of International Adoption 32. Visiting Friends and Relatives Section 7: Travelers with Special Itineraries 33. Expatriates: Corporate, Missionary and Volunteer 34. The Migrant Traveler 35. Humanitarian Aid Workers 36. The Deployed Military: Medical Readiness and Travel-Related Health Issues 37. Expedition Medicine 38. Ecotourism 39. Medical Tourism 40. Cruise Ship Travel 41. Mass Gatherings Section 8: Environmental Aspects of Travel Medicine 42. High-Altitude Medicine 43. Diving Medicine 44. Extremes of Temperature and Hydration 45. Jet Lag 46. Motion Sickness 47. The Aircraft Cabin Environment Section 9: Health Problems While Traveling 48. Bites, Stings, and Envenoming Injuries 49. Seafood Poisining 50. Injuries and Injury Prevention 51. Mental Health Issues of Travelers 52. Travelers' Thrombosis 53. Healthcare Abroad 54. Personal Security and Crime Avoidance Section 10: Post-Travel 55. Post-travel Screening 56. Fever in Returned Travelers 57. Skin Diseases 58. Eosinophilia 59. Respiratory Infections Appendix Sources of Travel Medicine Information

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPart 1 - CLINICAL PRACTICE IN THE TROPICS - all editors Section A: ORGAN-BASED CHAPTERS 1. Tropical Lung Diseases 2. Cardiovascular Diseases 3. Gastrointestinal Diseases 4. Hepatobiliary Diseases 5. Hematologic Diseases 6. Genitourinary Diseases 7. Sexually Transmitted Infections 8. Tropical Dermatology 9. Ophthalmological Diseases 10. Neurologic Diseases 11. Psychiatric Diseases 12. ENT 13. Diseases of the Musculoskeletal System Section B: SKILLS-BASED CHAPTERS 14. General Surgery in the Tropics 15. Oral Health and Disease in the Tropics 16. Maternal and Newborn Health 17. Pediatrics in a Resource-constrained Setting Section C: SERVICE-BASED CHAPTERS 18. Diagnostic Imaging in the Tropics 19. Blood Transfusion in Resource-limited Settings 20. Infection Control in the Tropics 21. Microbiology Section D: TOPIC-BASED CHAPTERS 22. Approach to the Patient with Diarrhea 23. Cancer in the Tropics 24. Heat-associated Illness 25. Traditional Medicine 26. Environmental Health Hazards in the Tropics 27. Neglected Tropical Diseases: Public Health Control Programs and Mass Drug Administration 28. Health Systems and Health Care Delivery 29. The Health Care Response to Disasters, Complex Emergencies, and Population Displacement Part 2: Viral Diseases Introduction and General Principles 30. Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection 30.1 HIV, Tuberculosis, Malaria and Streptococcus pneumoniae 31. Viral Infections with Cutaneous Lesions 31.1 Measles 31.2 Poxviruses 31.3 Nonpolio Enterovirus Mucocutaneous Infections 31.4 Kaposi's Sarcoma-associated Herpesvirus 32. Viral Respiratory Infections 33. Viral Gastroenteritis 33.1 Rotavirus 33.2 Norovirus 33.3 Enteric Adenoviruses 33.4 Astroviruses 33.5 Sapovirus 34. Viral Hepatitis (Hep A, B, C, D, E and Non A to E) 35. Viral Febrile Illnesses and Emerging Pathogens 35.1 Dengue and Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever 35.2 Chikungunya Fever 35.3 Zika 35.4 O'nyong Nyong Fever 35.5 Ross River Virus Disease 35.6 Oropouche Virus 35.7 Mayaro Virus 35.8 Pathogenic Phleboviruses (old: Sandfly Fever) 35.9 Sindbis Fever 36. Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers - INTRODUCTION 36.1 Yellow Fever 36.2 Lassa Fever 36.3 South American Hemorrhagic Fevers 36.4 Ebola and Marburg Virus Infections 36.5 Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever 36.6 Diseases Caused by Hantaviruses 36.7 Rift Valley Fever 37. Viral CNS Infections 37.1 Rabies & Related Viruses 37.2 Enterovirus Infections That Cause Central Nervous System Disease (including Poliomyelitis) 37.3 Venezuelan, Eastern and Western Equine Encephalitis 37.4 Japanese Encephalitis 37.5 West Nile Virus 37.6 Saint Louis Encephalitis and Rocio Encephalitis 37.7 Other Arboviral Encephalitides 37.8 Prion Disease 37.9 Human T-Lymphotropic Virus Type I and II Infection PART 3: BACTERIAL INFECTIONS Section A: Infections of the Eye and Throat 38. Trachoma and Inclusion Conjunctivitis 39. Group A Strepto coccus 40. Diphtheria Section B: Respiratory Tract Infections 41. Bacterial Pneumonia 42. Tuberculosis 43. Pertussis Section C: Gastrointestinal Tract Infections 44. Helicobacter pylori Infection 45. Escherichia coli Diarrhea 46. Cholera and Other Vibrios 47. Shigellosis 48. Nontyphoid Salmonella Disease 49. Campylobacter Infections 50. Miscellaneous Bacterial Enteritides 50.1 Yersinia Enterocolitica 50.2 Clostridium Infections 50.3 Aeromonas Section D: Sexually Transmitted Diseases 51. Chlamydial Infections 52. Lymphogranuloma Venereum 53. Gonorrhea 54. Chancroid 55. Granuloma Inguinale 56. Syphilis and the Endemic Treponematoses Section E: Infections Causing Neurologic Manisfestations 57. Acute Bacterial Meningitis 58. Tetanus 59. Botulism Section F: Infections of Skin and Soft Tissues Bacterial skin and soft tissue infections in the Tropics 60. Leprosy 61. Buruli Ulcer 62. Mycobacterium marinum Infection 63. Anthrax Section G: Febrile Systemic Syndromes with or without Lymphadenopathy 64. Epidemic Louse-borne Typhus 65. Murine Typhus 66. Scrub Typhus 67. Tick-borne Spotted Fever Rickettsioses 68. Rickettsialpox 69. Q Fever 70. Trench Fever 71. Bartonellosis : Carrion's Disease and other Bartonella Infections 72. Typhoid and Paratyphoid (Enteric) Fever 73. Brucellosis 74. Melioidosis and Glanders 75. Plague 76. Tularemia 77. Leptospirosis 78. Relapsing Fever and Borrelioses Part 4 - The Mycoses 79. General Principles 80. Superficial Mycoses 81. Subcutaneous Mycoses : General Principles 82. Protothecosis 83. Histoplasmosis 84. Coccidioidomycosis 85. Blastomycosis 86. Paracoccidioidomycosis 87. Cryptococcosis 88. Penicilliosis Marneffei 89. Pneumocystis Pneumonia 90. Treatment of Systemic Mycoses Part 5 - Protozoal Infections 91. General Principles Section A: Intestinal and Genital Infections 92. Entamoeba histolytica (Amebiasis) 93. Giardiasis 94. Cryptosporidiosis 95. Cyclosporiasis 96. Cystoisospora belli (syn. Isospora belli ) 97. Miscellaneous Intestinal Protozoa 98. Trichomoniasis Section B: Infections of the Blood and Reticuloendothelial System 99. Malaria 100. African Trypanosomiasis 101. American Trypanosomiasis (Chagas disease) 102. Leishmaniasis 103. Babesiosis Section C: Tissue Infection 104. Toxoplasmosis 105. Pathogenic and Opportunistic Free-living Ameba Infections 106. Sarcocystosis 107. Microsporidiosis Part 6 - Helminthic Infections 108. General Principles Section A: Intestinal Nematode Infections 109. Nematodes Limited to the Intestinal Tract ( Enterobius vermicularis , Trichuris trichiura , Capillaria philippinensis and Trichostrongylus spp.) 110. Intestinal Nematodes: Ascariasis 111. Hookworm and Strongyloides Infections Section B: Filarial Infections 112. Lymphatic Filariasis 113. Loiasis 114. Onchocerciasis 115. Miscellaneous Filariae Section C: Other Tissue Nematode Infections 116. Dracunculiasis 117. Trichinellosis 118. Toxocariasis 119. Gnathostomiasis 120. Eosinophilic Meningitis ( Angiostrongylus cantonensis , Parastrongylus cantonensis ) 121. Abdominal Angiostrongyliasis 122. Cutaneous Larva Migrans 123. Anisakidosis Section D: Trematodes Infections 124. Schistosomiasis 125. Intestinal Fluke Infections 126. Liver Fluke Infections 127. Paragonimiasis Section E: Cestode Infections 128. Tapeworm Infections 129. Larval Cestode Infections (Cysticercosis) 130. Cystic Echinococcosis 131. Alveolar Echinococcosis (Alveolar Hydatid Disease) 132. Polycystic Echinococcosis (Polycystic Neotropical Disease) 133. Sparganosis 134. Coenuriasis Part 7 - Poisonous and Toxic Plants and Animals 135. Animals hazardous to humans: Venomous Bites, Stings and Envenoming 136. Injurious Arthropods 137. Poisonous Plants and Aquatic Animals 138. PENTASTOMIASIS 139. BATS Part 8 - Nutritional Problems and Deficiency Diseases 140. General Principles 141. Protein-energy Malnutrition in Children 142. Vitamin Deficiencies 143. Mineral Deficiencies Part 9 - Vector Transmission of Diseases and Zoonoses Section A: Medical Entomology 144. Introduction medical Entomology Section B: Diseases associated with Vectors (Arthropods in Disease Transmission) 145. Diseases associated with Vectors (Arthropods in Disease Transmission) Section C: Vector Control 146. Vector Control Part 10 - The sick returning traveller 147. General Principles 148. Fever in the Returned Traveler 149. Malaria in the Returned Traveler 150. Screening of the Asymptomatic Long-term Traveler 151. Persistent Diarrhea in the Returned Traveler 152. Skin Lesions in Returning Travelers 153. Eosinophilia in Migrants and Returned Travelers: A Practical Approach 154. Immigrant Medicine 155. International Adoption 156. Medical Tourism 157. Transplant Patients and Tropical Diseases 158. Delusional Parasitosis Part 11 - Laboratory Diagnosis of Parasitic 159. General Principles 159.1 Preparation of Samples for Morphologic Diagnosis of Parasites in Stool and Urine Specimens 159.2 Examination of Blood, Other Body Fluids, Tissues, and Sputum Part 12: Drugs used in Tropical Medicine 160. Albendazole 161. Artemisinin 162. Benznidazole 163. Dapsone 164. DEC 165. Eflornithine 166. Ivermectin 167. Mebendazole 168. Miltefosine 169. Nifurtimox 170. Nitazoxanide 171. Pentamidine 172. Pentavalent Antimony 173. Praziquantel

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewDoody's Core Titles® 2022 "This is a one-of-a-kind book that presents very focused information in a simple, synthesized, and easy-to-digest format." -Natalie Neu, MD, MPH (Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons) Doody's Review Service

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Book SynopsisTable of Contents. General Approach to Infectious Diseases Evaluation 2. Interacting with the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory 3. A Primer on Microbiology 4. General Principles of Antimicrobial Therapy 5. A Primer on Antimicrobials 6. Fever of Unknown Origin 7. Fever and Rash 8. Ear, Nose, Throat and Neck Infections 9. Lower Respiratory Tract Infections 10. Select Gastrointestinal and Hepatobiliary Infections 11. Urinary Tract Infections 12. Skin and Soft Tissue Infections 13. Bone and Joint Infections 14. Diagnostic Approach to a Patient with Suspected Central Nervous System Infection 15. Vector-Borne Infections 16. Sepsis 17. Sexually Transmitted Infections 18. HIV Infection 19. Bacteremia

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The late Dr. Frank H. Netter's understanding of anatomy, physiology, pathogenesis, and clinical signs of disease are translated by his incredible artistic talent into visual images that reduce complexities into simple concepts, which improve patient care and add lasting enjoyment to medical education." ©Doody's Review Service, 2022, Robert Gene Penn, MD(Nebraska Methodist Hospital) Doody's Score: 5 Stars!Table of ContentsContents SECTION I Vaccine-Preventable Diseases in Children and Adolescents Introduction to Vaccine-Preventable Diseases in Children and Adolescents Diphtheria and Tetanus Bordetella pertussis and Pertussis (Whooping Cough) Haemophilus influenzae Type b Pneumococcal Disease: Infections Caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae Infections Caused by Neisseria meningitidis Poliomyelitis (Polio) and Polioviruses Influenza Rotavirus Infection Measles Mumps Rubella Varicella-Zoster Virus Infections Hepatitis A Infection and Prevention Hepatitis B Infection Human Papillomavirus Infections and Prevention SECTION II Skin and Soft-Tissue Infections Introduction to Skin and Soft-Tissue Infections Impetigo Erysipelas and Cellulitis Folliculitis, Furuncles, and Carbuncles Life-Threatening Skin and Soft-Tissue Infections Superficial Dermatophyte Infections of the Skin Herpes Simplex Virus Infection Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Skin and Soft-Tissue Infections SECTION III Respiratory Tract Infections Introduction to Respiratory Tract Infections Community-Acquired Pneumonia, Bacterial Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia Atypical Pneumonia Aspiration Pneumonia Viral Respiratory Infections Sinus Infections Acute Otitis Media Pharyngitis Acute Exacerbations of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease SECTION IV Systemic Infections Introduction to Systemic Infections Endocarditis Meningitis Osteomyelitis Urinary Tract Infections Systemic Fungal Infections SECTION V Surgical Infections Surgical Infections: Introduction and Overview Acute Appendicitis Acute Ascending Cholangitis and Suppurative Toxic Cholangitis Acute Diverticulitis Hydatid Cyst Disease (Echinococcosis) Intraabdominal Abscess Liver Abscess: Pyogenic and Amebic Hepatic Abscess Necrotizing Soft-Tissue Infections Anorectal Abscess and Fistula in Ano Peritonitis Pyomyositis (Pyomyositis Tropicans) Surgical Site Infections SECTION VI Sexually Transmitted Infections Introduction to Sexually Transmitted Infections Trichomonas vaginalis Herpes Simplex Virus Genital Infection Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Human Papillomavirus Infections Caused by Chlamydia trachomatis, Including Lymphogranuloma Venereum Infections With Neisseria gonorrhoeae Syphilis (Treponema pallidum) Bacterial Vaginosis, Related Syndromes, and Less Common Sexually Transmitted Diseases SECTION VII Infections Associated With International Travel and Outdoor Activities Introduction to Infections Associated With International Travel and Outdoor Activities Malaria Yellow Fever Travelers' Diarrhea Cholera Enteric Fever: Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fever Hepatitis A, B, C, D, and E: Focus on Adult Infections Rabies Arboviruses of Medical Importance West Nile Virus Disease Tick-Borne Encephalitis Lyme Disease Leptospirosis Primary Amebic Meningoencephalitis SECTION VIII Parasitic Diseases Introduction to Parasitic Diseases Amebiasis Giardia, Cryptosporidium, Cyclospora, and Other Intestinal Protozoa Soil-Transmitted Helminths and Other Intestinal Roundworms Intestinal Cestodes (Tapeworms) Cysticercosis Food-Borne Trematodes: Liver, Lung, and Intestinal Flukes Schistosomiasis Filarial Diseases Echinococcosis: Cystic and Alveolar Disease Trichinellosis Chagas Disease SECTION IX Emerging Infectious Diseases and Pandemics Introduction to Emerging Infectious Diseases and Pandemics Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis Anthrax Tularemia Zika Virus Disease and Congenital Zika Virus Infection Neuroangiostrongyliasis (Rat Lungworm Disease) Ebola and Other Emerging Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome and Coronavirus Disease 2019 Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Influenza Virus: A Public Health Concern

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewDoody's Core Titles® 2022 "As a pediatric infectious disease clinician, I find this book to be a helpful reference for both clinical work as well as lecture preparation when engaging learners." ©Doody's Review Service, 2022, Bradford Becken, MD (University of Nebraska Medical Center)Table of Contents[The TOC contains hundreds of small chapters; so below is the consolidated list with only Parts and Sections.] PART I: Understanding, Controlling, and Preventing Infectious Diseases A. Epidemiology and Control of Infectious Diseases B. Prevention of Infectious Diseases PART II Clinical Syndromes and Cardinal Features of Infectious Diseases: Approach to Diagnosis and Initial Management A. Septicemia, Toxin and Inflammation-Mediated Syndromes B. Cardinal Symptom Complexes C. Oral Infections and Upper and Middle Respiratory Tract Infections D. Lower Respiratory Tract Infections E. Cardiac and Vascular Infections F. Central Nervous System Infections G. Genitourinary Tract Infections H. Gastrointestinal Tract Infections and Intoxications I. Intra-abdominal Infections J. Skin and Soft-Tissue Infections K. Bone and Joint Infections L. Eye Infections M. Infections Related to Trauma N. Infections of the Fetus and Newborn O. Infections and Transplantation P. Infections and Cancer Q. Infections Associated with Hospitalization and Medical Devices R. Infections in Patients with Deficient Defenses S. Human Immunodeficiency Virus and the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome PART III. Etiologic Agents of Infectious Diseases A. Bacteria B. Viruses C. Fungi Part IV: Laboratory Diagnosis and Therapy of Infectious Diseases A. The Clinician and the Laboratory B. Anti-Infective Therapy

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is a well-conceived pocket guide providing initial wisdom for a variety of emergencies." ©Doody's Review Service, 2022, David James Dries, MSE MD (University of Minnesota Medical School)Table of ContentsIntroduction Cardiac Emergencies Respiratory Emergencies Neurological Emergencies Gastrointestinal Emergencies Endocrine Emergencies Hematologic Emergencies Oncologic Emergencies Infectious Disease Emergencies Management of Postprocedural Complications in Hospitalized Patients Rapid Response Cases Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This book includes 100 cases focusing on the diagnosis and management of infectious diseases. It comes with an online version (ebook) for quick access. The title adequately explains the book's content, and each case includes material relevant to infectious diseases." ©Doody’s Review Service, 2023, Faran Ahmad, MBBS (Creighton University Medical Center)Table of ContentsCase 1 Case 2 Case 3 Case 4 Case 5 Case 6 Case 7 Case 8 Case 9 Case 10 Case 11 Case 12 Case 13 Case 14 Case 15 Case 16 Case 17 Case 18 Case 19 Case 20 Case 21 Case 22 Case 23 Case 24 Case 25 Case 26 Case 27 Case 28 Case 29 Case 30 Case 31 Case 32 Case 33 Case 34 Case 35 Case 36 Case 37 Case 38 Case 39 Case 40 Case 41 Case 42 Case 43 Case 44 Case 45 Case 46 Case 47 Case 48 Case 49 Case 50 Case 51 Case 52 Case 53 Case 54 Case 55 Case 56 Case 57 Case 58 Case 59 Case 60 Case 61 Case 62 Case 63 Case 64 Case 65 Case 66 Case 67 Case 68 Case 69 Case 70 Case 71 Case 72 Case 73 Case 74 Case 75 Case 76 Case 77 Case 78 Case 79 Case 80 Case 81 Case 82 Case 83 Case 84 Case 85 Case 86 Case 87 Case 88 Case 89 Case 90 Case 91 Case 92 Case 93 Case 94 Case 95 Case 96 Case 97 Case 98 Case 99 Case 100

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsEpidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 and Covid-19 SARS-CoV-2: Structure, pathogenesis, and diagnosis Covid-19: Natural History and Spectrum of Disease Immunology of Covid-19 Covid-19: Emergency Medicine Challenges Pulmonary Manifestations of Covid-19 Covid-19 and the Cardiovascular System Gastrointestinal manifestations of Covid-19 Musculo-skeletal manifestations of Covid-19 Neurological Manifestations of Covid-19 Psychiatric manifestations of Covid-19 Impact of Maternal SARS-CoV-2 Infection on the Fetus and Newborn Covid-19 in children Oral Cavity and Covid-19: Clinical Manifestations, Diagnostics and Transmission Therapeutics for Covid-19 Novel Therapeutic Targets for SARS-CoV-2 and Covid-19 Vaccine Basics and Covid-19 Vaccines

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