| Description |
xv, 287-551 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm |
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Clinics in laboratory medicine ; 26 |
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Clinics in laboratory medicine ; 26 (2)
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| Contents |
Emerging Natural Threats and the Deliberate Use of Biological Agents / Michael I. Greenberg and Aileen M. Marty.--Clinical Laboratories, the Secret Agent Program, and Biological Surety (Biosurety) / Ross H. Pastel, Gretchen Demmin, Grant Severson, Rafael Torres-Cruz, Jorge Trevino, Jophn Kelly, Jay Arrison and Joy Christman.--Medical Strategies to Handle Mass Casualties from the Use of Biological Weapons / Kristi L. Koenig, Christopher A. Kahn and Carl H. Schultz.--Clinical and Pathological Differential Diagnosis of Selected Potential Bioterrorism Agents of Interest to Pediatric Health Care Providers / J. Thomas Stocker.--Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers / Peter B. Jahrling, Aileen M. Marty and Thomas W. Geisbert.--Fungi as Bioweapons / Mary K. Klassen-Fischer.--Biologic Toxins: Bacterial and Marine Toxins / Matthew Salzman, James M. Madsen and Michael I. Greenberg.--Bioregulators as Prototypic Nontraditional Threat Agents / Elliott Kagan--Clinicopathologic Aspects of Animal and Zoonotic Diseases of Bioterrorism / Marc E. Mattix, David H. Zeman, Robert Moeller, Carney Jackson and Thomas Larsen--Modulating Radiation Resistance: Insights Based on Defenses Against Reactive Oxygen Species in the Radioresistant Bacterium Deinococcus Radiodurans / Michael J. Daly--Immunologic Aspects of Selected Agents/ Florence M. Rollwagen--Anatomic Laboratory and Forensic Aspects of Biological Agents / Aileen M. Marty |
| Summary |
'This issue collects some of the finest scientists, physicians, and scholars to present the relationship between emerging natural threats and the deliberate use of biological agents, laboratory aspects of select agents and biosurety, clinical and pathologic differential diagnosis of potential pediatric bioterrorism agents, medical strategies to handle mass casualties caused by the use of biological weapons, updates viral hemorrhagic fevers, unusual agents such as fungal, and food borne agents including protozoal and helminthic, biological toxins from bacterial and marine organisms, and bioregulators. Update on molecular methods of detection, diagnosis, and characterization of biological threat agents are included. The clinicopathologic aspects of animal and zoonotic diseases of bioterrorism is wholly updated as is the impact on genomics and proteomics on biological threat agents. This issue also provides whole new immunologic approach to the management of select agents. Lastly and very importantly the anatomic laboratory and forensic aspects of biological threat agents is carefully reviewed.' (Publisher's blurb) |
| Notes |
"June 2006." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online version of the print title |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web |
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System requirements: Internet connectivity, World Wide Web browser, and Adobe Acrobat reader |
| Subject |
Biological warfare -- Health aspects.
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Bioterrorism -- Health aspects.
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Disaster medicine.
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Emergency management.
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Immunology.
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Mycotoxins.
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Zoonoses.
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| Author |
Greenberg, Michael I.
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Marty, Aileen M
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| ISBN |
1416035222 |
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