Author: Felissa R. Lashley
Edition: 2
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
Binding: Kindle Edition
ISBN: B0044R7EG8
Emerging Infectious Diseases
"This new work updates the highly regarded first edition. Medical books Emerging Infectious Diseases. .and is equally excellent. It offers a wealth of timely information about a variety of emerging and reemerging infections. Medical books Emerging Infectious Diseases and the Threat to Occupational Health in the U. S. and Canada. Categories: Emerging infectious diseases. Contributors: William Charney - Editor. Format: Hardcover
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Medical Book Emerging Infectious Diseases
.and is equally excellent. It offers a wealth of timely information about a variety of emerging and reemerging infections...This is an excellent reference for anyone interested in emerging infections, and will be a valuable resource for health science students, especially those in nursing and public health....Highly recommended. Upper-level undergraduates through professionals/practitioners."--Choice
Emerging, re-emerging, and antibiotic-resistant infectious diseases continue to increase at an alarming rate throughout the world. Written for a wide range of health professionals, particularly nurses, this revised edition provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of these diseases: their epidemiology, clinical manifestations, prevention, and treatment.
With contributions by a multidisciplinary team of nurses, physicians, and infectious disease specialists, the book includes material on the most recent and important new emerging infectious diseases:
- Avian influenza and SARS
- Issues of demographics and microbial resistance
- Special topics, including bioterrorism
- Behavioral and cultural factors
- Infectious etiologies of chronic diseases
- Travel and recreational exposure
Each chapter is amply illustrated with clinical case examples to demonstrate the pitfalls in differential diagnosis and elucidate proper management and treatment. Valuable appendices provide critical reference information for each of the bacterial, viral, fungal, and parasitic diseases.
"This new work updates the highly regarded first edition...and is equally excellent. It offers a wealth of timely information about a variety of emerging and reemerging infections...This is an excellent reference for anyone interested in emerging infections, and will be a valuable resource for health science students, especially those in nursing and public health....Highly recommended. Upper-level undergraduates through professionals/practitioners."--Choice
Emerging, re-emerging, and antibiotic-resistant infectious diseases continue to increase at an alarming rate throughout the world. Written for a wide range of health professionals, particularly nurses, this revised edition provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of these diseases: their epidemiology, clinical manifestations, prevention, and treatment.
With contributions by a multidisciplinary team of nurses, physicians, and infectious disease specialists, the book includes material on the most recent and important new emerging infectious diseases:
- Avian influenza and SARS
- Issues of demographics and microbial resistance
- Special topics, including bioterrorism
- Behavioral and cultural factors
- Infectious etiologies of chronic diseases
- Travel and recreational exposure
Each chapter is amply illustrated with clinical case examples to demonstrate the pitfalls in differential diagnosis and elucidate proper management and treatment. Valuable appendices provide critical reference information for each of the bacterial, viral, fungal, and parasitic diseases.
