Infectious Diseases: A Geographic Guide, 2nd Edition
Wiley-Blackwell | English | March 2017 | ISBN-10: 1119085748 | 520 pages | PDF | 9.64 mb
Eskild Petersen (Editor), Lin Hwei Chen (Editor), Patricia Schlagenhauf-Lawlor (Editor)

Description

The second edition of this concise and practical guide describes infections in geographical areas and provides information on disease risk, concomitant infections (such as co-prevalence of HIV and tuberculosis) and emerging bacterial, viral and parasitic infections in a given geographical area of the world.
Geographic approach means that it s the only book to guide the health care worker towards a diagnosis based on the location of symptoms and travel history by encouraging the question where have you been?
New content covering MERS, Ebola, Zika, and infections transmitted during air and maritime travel
Covers the major infectious disease outbreaks framed in their geographic setting such as H7N9 bird flu influenza, H1N1, Ebola, and Zika
Outstanding international editor team with vast experience on various international infectious disease and as journal editors and key leaders in infection surveillance

Author Information
Eskild Petersen MD
Associate Professor, Department of Infectious Diseases, Aarhus University Hospital,
Denmark

Patricia Schlagenhauf-Lawlor PhD, FFTM, RCPSS (Glasg)
Senior Scientist and Professor, University of Zürich, WHO Collaborating Centre for Travel Medicine, Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute, Zurich,Switzerland

Lin H. Chen MD FACP, FASTMH
Director of the Travel Medicine Center at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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