Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Advances in Surveillance, Detection, and Identification of Emerging and Endemic Pathogens (2008 : Tʻbilisi, Georgia)

Title Emerging and endemic pathogens : advances in surveillance, detection and identification / edited by Kevin O. O'Connell [and others]
Published Dordrecht : Springer, ©2010

Copies

Description 1 online resource (xviii, 154 pages) : illustrations
Series NATO Science for Peace and Security. Series A, Chemistry and Biology
NATO science for peace and security series. Series A, Chemistry and biology.
Contents Keynotes Contribution -- Global Effect and Prevention of Emerging and Epidemic Pathogens: Cholera and Citrus Greening as Examples -- Surveillance -- The Epidemiological Surveillance of Highly Pathogenic Diseases in Kazakhstan -- Surveillance on Plague in Natural Foci in Georgia -- Application of Modern Techniques for Studying Bacterial Pathogens in Georgia -- Especially Dangerous Infections in Azerbaijan -- Strengthening the Early-Warning Function of the Surveillance System: The Macedonian Experience -- Integrating Geographic Information Systems and Ecological Niche Modeling into Disease Ecology: A Case Study of Bacillus anthracis in the United States and Mexico -- Molecular Analysis and Tools -- Applications of Paleomicrobiology to the Understanding of Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases -- Characterization of a Putative Hemagglutinin Gene in the Caprine Model for Brucellosis -- Pathoadaptation of Especially Dangerous Pathogens -- Detection of Pathogens Via High-Throughput Sequencing -- Environmental Influences on the Relative Stability of Baculoviruses and Vaccinia Virus: A Review
Summary This volume highlights recent advances in the tracking, detecting, and identifying of emerging and endemic pathogens throughout the world. The authors of the chapters are among the foremost experts in epidemiology, microbiology and public health and leaders in their respective countries. The chapters offer views on the history and current state of disease surveillance with special emphasis on the Caucasus and Central Asia, the historical land bridge between Europe and Asia through which epidemics have passed throughout history
Notes International conference proceedings
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
In Springer eBooks
Subject Communicable diseases -- Prevention -- Congresses
Communicable diseases -- Control -- Congresses
World health -- Congresses
Communicable diseases -- Congresses
Communicable diseases -- Epidemiology -- Congresses
Medical microbiology -- Congresses
World health.
Microbiology.
Communicable Disease Control
Communicable Diseases, Emerging -- epidemiology
Communicable Diseases, Emerging -- prevention & control
Endemic Diseases
Global Health
Communicable Diseases -- microbiology
Communicable Diseases, Emerging -- microbiology
Microbiology
microbiology.
Biomédecine.
Sciences de la vie.
Microbiology
Communicable diseases
Communicable diseases -- Control
Communicable diseases -- Epidemiology
Communicable diseases -- Prevention
Medical microbiology
World health
Genre/Form proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Form Electronic book
Author O'Connell, Kevin P
ISBN 9789048196371
904819637X
9789048196395
9048196396