Overview
- Describes the dynamic nature of infectious disease agents and their complex interactions with the environment and their human and animal hosts
- Covers new technologies for antibiotics, vaccines, and treatment
- Features several contributions on waterborne infectious diseases, including enteric viruses and bacterial pathogens in the ocean
- Provides an excellent introduction for those entering the field, as well as new insights for advanced researchers and industry experts
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An indispensable resource for students and scientists, the volume also covers some of the new technologies currently under development for infectious disease prevention, treatment, and eradication. The greater part of the infectious disease burden remains in the tropics, where low and middle-income countries lack the resources, infrastructure, and health systems to mount or sustain control efforts. Many contributions describe the efforts of the scientific research community and international donor agencies to achieve the integrated goals of vigilant surveillance, improved and cost-effective diagnostics, and treatment for sustainable disease control.
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Keywords
- Antibiotics Emerging Pathogens
- Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology
- Enteric Viruses
- HIV/AIDS
- Human Bacterial Diseases Ocean
- Infectious Disease Modeling
- Infectious Diseases Book
- Infectious Diseases Sustainability
- Infectious Diseases and Climate Change
- Malaria Vaccines
- Polio Epidemiology
- Tropical Health Sustainability
- Tuberculosis Epidemiology
- Vibrational Spectroscopy Rapid Diagnostics
- Warterborne Infectious Diseases
- Waterborne Parasitic Diseases
- infectious diseases
- water and health
- marine and freshwater sciences
- vaccines
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Infectious Diseases
Book Subtitle: Selected Entries from the Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology
Editors: Phyllis Kanki, Darrell Jay Grimes
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5719-0
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-9494-3Published: 28 January 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-5719-0Published: 15 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 506
Topics: Infectious Diseases, Water and Health, Marine & Freshwater Sciences, Vaccine, Public Health, Epidemiology