Routledge Handbook of Infectious Diseases (eBook, PDF)

A Geographical Guide
Redaktion: Petersen, Eskild; Schlagenhauf, Patricia; Chen, Lin H.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The new edition of this unique resource, ground on an understanding that our global world is more connected than it has ever been, provides an essential survey of infectious diseases based on both clinical presentation and geographical area of exposure.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 500
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040151631
• Artikelnr.: 72286923

Autorenporträt

Eskild Petersen is an infectious disease specialist who worked in public health at Statens Serum Institut and in clinical infectious diseases at Aarhus University Hospital. He served as chair of the European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases emerging infectious diseases task force for five years. He moderated ProMED for 22 years and served as Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Infectious Diseases for ten years. He is also part of the PandemiX Center at Roskilde University. Lin H. Chen directs the Mount Auburn Hospital Travel Medicine Center, is Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and is the Past President of the International Society of Travel Medicine. She has served on CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices Working Groups, is Site Director for the GeoSentinel Surveillance and Research Network and is part of the Global Travel Epidemiology Network. Her clinical research focuses on travellers' health, including vector-borne diseases, immunizations, emerging infections, and cross-border healthcare. Patricia Schlagenhauf is a Professor at the University of Zürich and serves as the Head of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Travellers' Health and Scientific Group Leader. Her research focuses on travellers' malaria, emerging vector-borne infections, and infectious disease epidemiology. Active in surveillance of travel-related illness, she is the Director of the European network EuroTravNet since 2022 and the Zürich GeoSentinel Site Director since 1998. Additionally, she holds the position of Editor-in-Chief of New Microbes New Infections.

Inhaltsangabe

Section I
1. Historical Overview of Global Infectious Diseases and Geopolitics
2. Non-traditional Infectious Diseases Surveillance Systems
3. Air Travel ¿ Which Infectious Disease Control Measures are Worthwhile
4. Infectious Illnesses on Cruise and Cargo Ships
5. Travel-related Infections: Prevention
Outbreak
Curtailment
6. Migration and the Geography of Disease
Section II
7. Central Africa
8. Eastern Africa
Madagascar and Indian Ocean Islands
9. North Africa
10. Southern Africa
11. West Africa
12. East Asia
13. South Central Asia
14. South-East Asia
15. Western Asia and the Middle East
16. Eastern Europe
17. Nordic and Baltic Countries
18. Southern Europe
19. Western Europe
20. The Caribbean
21. Central America
22. South America
23. Northern America
24. Australia
New Zealand
25. Pacific Island Countries and Territories
26. Arctic and Antarctica
Section III
27. Emerging Infections
28. Climate Change and the Geographic Distribution of Infectious Diseases