Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases (Paperback)

The aim of this book is to highlight selected problems with new and old diseases, e.g. transplantation rabies and rabies transmitted by bats, confection of tuberculosis and HIV, etc. The book also emphasizes on recent advances in diagnosis and treatment of various infectious diseases. It has a general section on infectious diseases and their prevention. Authors of various chapters are experienced workers in their field and thus there are plenty of references in this book. The book is expected to be of immense help to physicians, microbiologists, and paediatricians both budding and established.

key Features
* Elucidation of emerging problems of global concern like HIV, tuberculosis, other sexually transmitted disease, Ebola hemorrhagic fever, chikungunya, avian influenza.

* Emphasizes on recent advances in diagnosis and treatment of various infectious diseases and provide students with the requisite skills to conduct, evaluate, and understand the field of infectious disease epidemiology.

* Focuses on new problem of common infectious diseases like transplant rabies, bat transmitted rabies, O139 serotype cholera, dengue shock syndrome etc.

* General section covers status of communicable diseases, newer vaccines, bio terrorism, hospital acquired infection, transfusion and travel related infection.

* Remerging infectious diseases like yaws, plague and trench fever are described in detail.