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xiii, 440 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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Contents note continued: 3.14.Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and other human transmissible spongiform encephalopathies -- 3.15.Clostridium difficile -- 3.16.Clostridium perfringens -- 3.17.Coxsackievirus infections -- 3.18.Cryptosporidiosis -- 3.19.Cyclosporiasis -- 3.20.Cytomegalovirus -- 3.21.Dengue fever -- 3.22.Diphtheria -- 3.23.Encephalitis, acute -- 3.24.Enterococci, including glycopeptide-resistant enterococci -- 3.25.Epstein-Barr virus -- 3.26.Escherichia coli O157 (and other E. coli gastroenteritis) -- 3.27.Giardiasis -- 3.28.Gonorrhoea, syphilis and other acute STIs -- 3.29.Hantavirus -- 3.30.Head Iice -- 3.31.Helicobacter pylori -- 3.32.Hepatitis A -- 3.33.Hepatitis B -- 3.34.Hepatitis C -- 3.35.Delta hepatitis -- 3.36.Hepatitis E -- 3.37.Herpes simplex -- 3.38.Haemophilus influenzae type b -- 3.39.HIV -- 3.40.Influenza -- 3.41.Japanese B encephalitis -- 3.42.Kawasaki disease -- 3.43.Legionellosis -- 3.44.Leprosy -- 3.45.Leptospirosis -- 3.46.Listeria -- |
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Contents note continued: 3.47.Lyme disease -- 3.48.Malaria -- 3.49.Measles -- 3.50.Meningococcal infection -- 3.51.Molluscum contagiosum -- 3.52.Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) -- 3.53.Mumps -- 3.54.Mycoplasma -- 3.55.Norovirus -- 3.56.Paratyphoid fever -- 3.57.Parvovirus B19 (fifth disease) -- 3.58.Plague -- 3.59.Pneumococcal infection -- 3.60.Poliomyelitis -- 3.61.Q fever -- 3.62.Rabies -- 3.63.Relapsing fever -- 3.64.Respiratory syncytial virus -- 3.65.Ringworm -- 3.66.Rotavirus -- 3.67.Rubella -- 3.68.Salmonellosis -- 3.69.Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) -- 3.70.Scabies -- 3.71.Shigella -- 3.72.Smallpox -- 3.73.Staphylococcal food poisoning -- 3.74.Streptococcal infections -- 3.75.Tetanus -- 3.76.Threadworms -- 3.77.Tick-borne encephalitis -- 3.78.Toxocara -- 3.79.Toxoplasmosis -- 3.80.Tuberculosis -- 3.81.Tularaemia -- 3.82.Typhoid fever -- 3.83.Typhus, other Rickettsia, Ehrlichia and Bartonella -- 3.84.Vibrio parahaemolyticus -- |
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Contents note continued: 3.85.Viral haemorrhagic fevers -- 3.86.Warts and verrucae -- 3.87.West Nile virus -- 3.88.Whooping cough -- 3.89.Yellow fever -- 3.90.Yersiniosis -- 3.91.Other organisms -- 3.91.1.Helminths -- 3.91.2.Other protozoal diseases -- 3.91.3.Fungi and actinomycetes -- 3.91.4.Rare viruses -- 3.91.5.Bites, stings and venoms -- 3.91.6.Chemical food-borne illness -- Section 4 Services and organisations -- 4.1.Surveillance of communicable disease -- 4.2.Managing infectious disease incidents and outbreaks -- 4.3.Infection prevention and control in the community -- 4.4.Healthcare-associated infection -- 4.5.Antimicrobial resistance -- 4.6.Risks to and from healthcare workers -- 4.7.Co-ordination of immunisation services -- 4.8.Services for sexual health and HIV infection -- 4.9.Services for tuberculosis control -- 4.10.Travel health -- 4.11.Pandemic preparedness and the influenza A H1N1 2009 pandemic -- 4.12.Non-infectious environmental hazards -- |
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Contents note continued: 4.13.Managing acute chemical incidents -- 4.14.Managing acute radiation incidents -- 4.15.Deliberate release of biological, chemical or radiological agents -- 4.16.Media relations and crisis communication -- 4.17.Clinical governance and audit -- 4.18.Global health -- Section 5 Communicable disease control in Europe -- 5.1.WHO and International Health Regulations -- 5.2.Collaboration within the European Union -- 5.3.Detailed national example: organisational arrangements for health protection, England, 2010 -- 5.4.Austria -- 5.5.Belgium -- 5.6.Bulgaria -- 5.7.Cyprus -- 5.8.Czech Republic -- 5.9.Denmark -- 5.10.Estonia -- 5.11.Finland -- 5.12.France -- 5.13.Germany -- 5.14.Greece -- 5.15.Hungary -- 5.16.Iceland -- 5.17.Ireland -- 5.18.Italy -- 5.19.Latvia -- 5.20.Lithuania -- 5.21.Luxembourg -- 5.22.Malta -- 5.23.The Netherlands -- 5.24.Norway -- 5.25.Poland -- 5.26.Portugal -- 5.27.Romania -- 5.28.Slovakia -- 5.29.Slovenia -- 5.30.Spain -- 5.31.Sweden -- |
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Contents note continued: 5.32.Switzerland -- 5.33.United Kingdom -- Appendices -- 1.Useful addresses and telephone numbers -- 2.Guidance documents and books |
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Machine generated contents note: Section 1 Introduction -- 1.1.How to use this book -- 1.2.Basic concepts in the epidemiology and control of infectious disease -- 1.3.Health protection on-call -- Section 2 Common topics -- 2.1.Meningitis and meningism -- 2.2.Gastrointestinal infection -- 2.3.Community-acquired pneumonia -- 2.4.Rash in pregnancy -- 2.5.Rash and fever in children -- 2.6.Illness in returning travellers -- 2.7.Sexually transmitted infections -- 2.8.Jaundice -- 2.9.Infection in the immunocompromised -- 2.10.Blood-borne viral infections -- 2.11.Vaccine queries -- 2.12.Individual measures against infections -- Section 3 Diseases -- 3.1.Amoebic dysentery -- 3.2.Anthrax -- 3.3.Bacillus cereus -- 3.4.Botulism -- 3.5.Brucellosis -- 3.6.Burkholderia -- 3.7.Campylobacter -- 3.8.Chickenpox and shingles (varicella-zoster infections) -- 3.9.Chikungunya -- 3.10.Chlamydophila pneumoniae -- 3.11.Chlamydophila psittaci -- 3.12.Chlamydia trachomatis (genital) -- 3.13.Cholera -- |
| Summary |
"This clear and concise text combines science with practical guidance for public-health physicians, epidemiologists, infection control nurses, microbiologists, and those training in these fields. It covers basic principles of communicable disease control and health protection, major syndromes, control of individual infections, main services and activities, organizational arrangements for all EU countries and sources of further information. All chapters have been updated in line with recent changes in epidemiology, new guidelines for control and administrative changes. New chapters on pandemic planning and flu chapter expanded to cover seasonal, avian and pandemic flu. -- Publisher |
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Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Communicable diseases -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Communicable diseases -- Prevention -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Communicable Disease Control.
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Communicable Disease Control.
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Communicable Diseases.
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Handbook.
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Handbooks and manuals.
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Hawker, Jeremy.
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| LC no. |
2011018728 |
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1444335677 (paperback) |
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9781444335675 (paperback) |
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