| Description |
1 online resource (754 p.) |
| Series |
New York Academy of Sciences Ser. ; v.10 |
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New York Academy of Sciences Ser
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| Contents |
Intro -- CONTENTS -- Tables and Figures -- Preface -- The Author -- Acknowledgments -- PART I: INTRODUCTION TO EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES -- Chapter 1: Infectious Diseases Past and Present -- Chapter 2: Of Microbes and Men -- PART II: BACTERIAL INFECTIONS -- Chapter 3: Lyme Disease -- Chapter 4: Human Ehrlichiosis -- Chapter 5: Bartonella Infections -- Chapter 6: Group A Streptococci -- Chapter 7: Escherichia coli O157:H7 -- Chapter 8: Helicobacter pylori, Ulcers, and Cancer -- Chapter 9: Legionnaires' Disease and Pontiac Fever -- Chapter 10: Pulmonary Tuberculosis and Multidrug Resistance |
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Chapter 11: Emerging Bacterial Drug Resistance -- PART III VIRAL INFECTIONS -- Chapter 12: Marburg and Ebola Hemorrhagic Fevers -- Chapter 13: American Hemorrhagic Fevers -- Chapter 14: Lassa Hemorrhagic Fever -- Chapter 15: Dengue Fever and Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever -- Chapter 16: The Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome -- Chapter 17: Human Herpesvirus 8 and Kaposi's Sarcoma -- Chapter 18: Hepatitis C -- Chapter 19: Epidemic and Pandemic Influenza -- Chapter 20: Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome -- Chapter 21: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome |
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Chapter 22: West Nile Disease in the United States -- Chapter 23: Monkeypox -- PART IV PARASITIC INFECTIONS -- Chapter 24: Malaria: Reemergence and Recent Successes -- Chapter 25: Babesiosis -- Chapter 26: Cryptosporidiosis -- Chapter 27: Chagas' Disease and Its Emergence in the United States -- PART V INFECTIOUS PROTEINS -- Chapter 28: Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease and Other Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies -- PART VI SPECIAL ISSUES IN INFECTIOUS DISEASES -- Chapter 29: The Emerging Importance of Infectious Diseases in the Immunosuppressed -- Chapter 30: The Emerging Threat of Bioweapons |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Glossary -- Index |
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Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781118001578 |
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1118001575 |
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