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The essential guide to controlling and managing today’s communicable diseases The fourth edition of Communicable Disease Control and Health Protection Handbook offers public health workers of all kinds an authoritative and up-to-date guide to current protocols surrounding the identification and control of infectious diseases. With its concise, accessible design, the book is a practical tool that can be relied upon to explain topics ranging from the basic principles of communicable disease control to recent changes and innovations in health protection practice. Major syndromes and individual infections are insightfully addressed, while the authors also outline the WHO’s international heal...
Key Features: • Explores a highly topical concept of vaccines in a comprehensive and easy to read manner. • Engages the readers with relatable and interesting anecdotes. • Provides a balanced, factual counter to the huge amount of current vaccine misinformation.
Meningococcal septicemia and meningitis continue to be important causes of devastating illness, death, and long-term disability in both developed and resource-poor countries of the world. Few diseases have attracted as much public attention, or are as feared by parents and family members, as well as the medical staff who have to care for affected patients. The unexpected and unp- dictable occurrence of the disease in previously healthy children and young adults, its rapid progression, and the frequent occurrence of purpura fulminans with the resulting gangrene of limbs and digits and the requirement for mutilating s- gery, have all heightened both public and medical interest in the disease. ...
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Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the Tavistock Press. Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1956 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and 13 volumes, or as a complete collection.
Medical Microbiology and Infection at a Glance is a concise and accessible guide to the field of microbiology and infection. Given the rapid rate of development in this field, the second edition has been updated throughout. The book is made up of five sections which take the reader through the underlying concepts of microbiology to the structure and classification, pathogenesis, transmission, systemic infection and clinical management of infection and disease. The second edition includes three new chapters, which cover the use of antibiotics and treatment guidelines; vaccination and emerging infections as well as a new chapter increasing the coverage of Enteric Gram-negative bacteria. The second edition of Medical Microbiology and Infection at a Glance is an ideal resource for medical and biomedical science students, whilst students of other health professions and those in areas such as infection control will also find it invaluable.
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Concise and practical handbook for all those who haveresponsibility for the identification and control of infectiousdisease Why Buy this Book?: Clear and concise - combining science, attention to detail anda practical approach Covers basic principles of communicable disease control andhealth protection, major syndromes, control of individualinfections, main services and activities, organizationalarragements for all EU countries and sources of furtherinformation All chapters updated inline with recent changes inepidemiology, new guidelines for control and adminstrativechanges New or expanded chapters on immunization queries, smallpox,SARS, West Nile virus, delibrate release / bioterrorism and...