Infectious Diseases category: 1139 books
by David L. Gillespie, MD
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
The Year Book of Vascular Surgery brings you abstracts of the articles that reported the year's breakthrough developments in vascular surgery, carefully selected from more than 500 journals worldwide. Expert commentaries evaluate the clinical importance of each article and discuss its application...
by Anand Kumar, MD
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
The second in a two-part series on Life-Threatening Infections. Article topics include: Biowarfare/Bioterrorism pathogens, Infections in neutropenics, Infections in AIDS, Influenza and endemic viral pneumonias, Resistant gram negative infections, Toxic Shock Syndrome, Fulminant viral myocarditis, and Overwhelming post-splenectomy infection.
Nutrition and HIV
Epidemiological Evidence to Public Health
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
The world continues to lose more than a million lives each year to the HIV epidemic, and nearly two million individuals were infected with HIV in 2017 alone. The new Sustainable Development Goals, adopted by countries of the United Nations in September 2015, include a commitment to end the AIDS...
Human and Mosquito Lysozymes
Old Molecules for New Approaches Against Malaria
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Malaria remains an alarming emergency in developing countries. It is thus urgent to identify any parasite or host molecules that can serve as new affordable markers for early diagnosis of disease complications or as new targets for vector control. In this context, human and mosquito lysozymes are...
by Hilary Humphreys, Bob Winter, Mical Paul
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
The book will provide some basic aspects of the pathophysiology of infection, but essentially the book will be practical-based and use case-illustrations to highlight key aspects of diagnosis, management and prevention. Through a combination of text, tables, figures/line drawings, clinical illustrations...
Antimalarial Chemotherapy
Mechanisms of Action, Resistance, and New Directions in Drug Discovery
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001
Philip Rosenthal, MD, and a panel of leading malaria experts drawn from academia, the military, and international health organizations survey the latest scientific understanding of antimalarial chemotherapy, emphasizing the molecular mechanisms of resistance and the description of important new targets....
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Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
As globalization causes profound changes in business, industry, and trade,it can also have significant effects on populations, environments, and individuals.These effects may be harmful, resulting in injury or illness, prompting the critical question: How best to correct wrongs caused to individuals,...
by Donald W. Duszynski, Jana Kvičerová, R. Scott Seville
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
The fundamental concept of The Biology and Identification of the Coccidia (Apicomplexa) of Carnivores of the World is to provide an up-to-date reference guide to the identification, taxonomy, and known biology of apicomplexan intestinal and tissue parasites of carnivores including, but not limited...
Epidemiology of Obesity in Children and Adolescents
Prevalence and Etiology
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2011
Despite adults’ best preventive efforts, childhood obesity is on the rise in most areas of the world, and with it the prevalence of Type 2 diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, and other formerly adult-onset conditions. Epidemiology of Obesity in Children and Adolescents takes the global...
by Xiao-Nong Zhou, Shi-Zhu Li, Juerg Utzinger
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Schistosomiasis Control, the latest edition in the Advances in Parasitology series first published in 1963, contains comprehensive and up-to-date reviews on all areas of interest in contemporary parasitology.
The series includes medical studies of parasites of major influence, such as Plasmodium...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007
Abdominal organ transplantation, specifically liver, kidney and pancreatic transplantation, has experienced a tremendous growth over the last two decades. With this growth comes a need for a general, standardized introduction for those healthcare professionals involved with this branch of medicine....
Cancer in Sub-Saharan Africa
Current Practice and Future
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
This book discusses the current state of cancer pathway as it is relevant to sub-Saharan Africa and highlights differences in epidemiology and the underlying problems with management. It outlines the current practice and opinions in all forms of cancer, also highlighting future prospects.
Starting...
Recent Advances in the Epidemiology and Prevention of Gallstone Disease
Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Epidemiology and Prevention of Gallstone Disease, held in Rome, December 4–5, 1989
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Epidemiology and Prevention of Gallstone Disease, held in Rome, December 4-5, 1989
AIDS
The Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Within eighteen months of the preparation of the first edition much has happened in the AIDS field. The number affected are still increas at an alarming rate - these are now (at December 1986) almost ing 30000 cases in the United States and over 600 cases in the United Kingdom. Worldwide the AIDS...