Communicable disease control and health protection handbook

INDICE: Foreword. Abbreviations. 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. 3.14 CJD 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 (GRE). 3.25 EpsteinBarr 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 lice. 3.31 Helicobacter pylori. 3.32 Hepatitis A. 3.33 Hepatitis B. 3.34 Hepatitis C. 3.35Delta hepatitis. 3.36 Hepatitis E. 3.37 Herpes simplex. 3.38 Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib). 3.39 HIV. 3.40 Influenza. 3.41 Japanese B encephalitis. 3.42 Kawasaki Syndrome. 3.43 Legionellosis. 3.44 Leprosy. 3.45 Leptospirosis. 3.46 Listeria. 3.47 Lyme disease. 3.48 Malaria. 3.49 Measles. 3.50 Meningococcal infection. 3.51 Molluscum contagiosum. 3.52 MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus). 3.53 Mumps. 3.54 Mycoplasma. 3.55 Norovirus. 3.56 Paratyphoid fever. 3.57 Parvovirus B19 (fifth disease). 3.58 Plague. 3.59 Pneumococcalinfection. 3.60 Poliomyelitis. 3.61 Q fever. 3.62 Rabies. 3.63 Relapsing Fever. 3.64 Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). 3.65 Ringworm. 3.66 Rotavirus. 3.67Rubella. 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-borneencephalitis. 3.78 Toxocara. 3.79 Toxoplasmosis. 3.80 Tuberculosis. 3.81 Tularaemia. 3.82 Typhoid fever. 3.83 Rickettsial infections (incl. Typhus) Ehrlichia and Bartonella. 3.84 Vibrio parahaemolyticus. 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. Section 4: Services and organisations. 4.1 Surveillance of communicable disease. 4.2 Managing infectiousdisease incidents and outbreaks. 4.3 Infection

• ISBN: 978-1-4443-3567-5
• Editorial: Wiley-Blackwell
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 444
• Fecha Publicación: 06/01/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés