Emerging Infections in Asia (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Lu, Yichen; Roberts, Bryan; Essex, Max

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Produktbeschreibung

Emerging Infections in Asia

Edited by Yichen Lu, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston

M. Essex, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston

Bryan Roberts, Apex Consulting Group, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Ongoing population shifts, widening health disparities, and rapid genetic mutations are major factors in viral and bacterial dissemination worldwide. At the same time, the role of Asia in the recent SARS and bird flu outbreaks have made that continent a key area of interest. Emerging Infections in Asia offers a comprehensive overview of well studied and lesser-known infectious syndromes affecting local, regional, and international health, concentrating on their greatest areas of transmission. For each disease, contributors provide its historical record, biological structures, methods of transmission, clinical presentation, infection rates, methods of control and prevention, and potential threat to health on a global scale, in clear, accessible fashion.

A sampling of the topics covered:

• Avian flu in Thailand.



• SARS outbreaks in China, Taiwan, and Singapore.



• HIV/AIDS in China.



• Human hemorrhagic fever in Saudi Arabia.



• Drug-resistant TB throughout Asia.



• E. coli in the developing world.

By summarizing the knowledge base at this critical stage, Emerging Infections in Asia aids both epidemiologists and students of epidemiology in their efforts toward preparedness for and prevention of future pandemics. It is a bedrock volume in understanding this most pressing public health issue.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer US
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. März 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780387757223
• Artikelnr.: 43729647

Autorenporträt

Yichen Lu is the Executive Director at the Institute for International Vaccine Development, Cambridge, MA; the Principal Research Scientist at the Harvard AIDS Institute; and the Special Professor and Director, Nankai Vaccine Laboratory, Nankai University, China. Max Essex is the Chairman of the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health and Chairman of the Harvard AIDS Institute.

Inhaltsangabe

Avian Flu.- Influenza: Biology, Infection, and Control.- The Past and Present Threat of Avian Influenza in Thailand.- Transmission of Avian Influenza Viruses to Humans: Viral Receptor Specificity and Distribution in Human Airways.- SARS.- Investigation of Animal Reservoir(s) of SARS-CoV.- SARS Epidemic: SARS Outbreaks in Inner-land of China.- The 2003 SARS Outbreak In Singapore: Epidemiological and Clinical Features, Containment Measures, and Lessons Learned.- The 2003 SARS Outbreaks in Taiwan.- HIV/AIDS.- HIV/AIDS: Lessons from a New Disease Pandemic.- AIDS in China.- Other Infections.- Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli's Endemicity in Developing Countries and Its Emergence During Diarrheal Epidemics and Natural Disasters.- Human Cases of Hemorrhagic Fever in Saudi Arabia Due To a Newly Discovered Flavivirus, Alkhurma Hemorrhagic Fever Virus.- Disease Outbreaks Caused by Emerging Paramyxoviruses of Bat Origin.- Multidrug Resistant TB, TB Control, and Millennium Development Goals in Asia.- Emergence of Staphylococcus aureus with Reduced Susceptibility to Vancomycin in Asia.

Rezensionen

"Through recounts of lessons learned from the past coupled with up-to-date research data and current disease-fighting campaigns, this book acquaints readers with infectious diseases emerging out of Asia and threatening to be the next pandemic. ... Epidemiologists in the field, policy makers for national pandemic preparedness plans, and public health students in the classroom can benefit from this book. ... overall it provides a sound reference for the current status of infectious diseases in Asia." (Whitney S Baker, Doody's Review Service, August, 2008)

"Emerging infections in Asia provides an informative overview of several key public health challenges facing the world's most densely populated areas. A thoughtful approach to infection control and prevention is the foundation of this well written and instructive volume. [It] not only details specific infections but improves the reader's understanding of the unique interplay among individuals, animals, and travelers in settings with limited environmental and monetary resources.... The level of detail is sophisticated but still accessible, even to the nonmedical reader. If nothing else, the 2 chapters on avian influenza offer one of the most thoughtful yet succinct commentaries written about this potential pandemic. By recording the past and looking to the future, the contributors of Emerging Infections in Asia remind readers that when it comes to infectious diseases, the world will continue to get smaller." (Preeti N. Malani, MD, MSJ, JAMA 301:4, Janurary 2009)