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Emerging Infectious Diseases: Trends and Issues, Second Edition

Emerging Infectious Diseases: Trends and Issues, Second Edition

Emerging Infectious Diseases: Trends and Issues, Second Edition
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Emerging Infectious Diseases: Trends and Issues, Second Edition

Emerging Infectious Diseases: Trends and Issues, Second Edition

Overview

"This new work updates the highly regarded first edition...and is equally excellent. It offers a wealth of timely information about a variety of emerging and reemerging infections...This is an excellent reference for anyone interested in emerging infections, and will be a valuable resource for health science students, especially those in nursing and public health....Highly recommended. Upper-level undergraduates through professionals/practitioners."--Choice

Emerging, re-emerging, and antibiotic-resistant infectious diseases continue to increase at an alarming rate throughout the world. Written for a wide range of health professionals, particularly nurses, this revised edition provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of these diseases: their epidemiology, clinical manifestations, prevention, and treatment.

With contributions by a multidisciplinary team of nurses, physicians, and infectious disease specialists, the book includes material on the most recent and important new emerging infectious diseases:



  • Avian influenza and SARS
  • Issues of demographics and microbial resistance
  • Special topics, including bioterrorism
  • Behavioral and cultural factors
  • Infectious etiologies of chronic diseases
  • Travel and recreational exposure

Each chapter is amply illustrated with clinical case examples to demonstrate the pitfalls in differential diagnosis and elucidate proper management and treatment. Valuable appendices provide critical reference information for each of the bacterial, viral, fungal, and parasitic diseases.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780826103505
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
Publication date: 05/14/2007
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 144
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

Felissa R. Lashley, PhD, RN, FABMGG, is former dean and professor at the College of Nursing at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Prior to that, she was a dean and professor at the Southern Illinois University—Edwardsville and a clinical professor of pediatrics at the School of Medicine, Southern Illinois University—Springfield. She is the first nurse to be certified as a PhD medical geneticist by the American Board of Medical Genetics, and is a founding fellow of the American College of Medical Genetics. She began her practice of genetic evaluation and counseling in 1973.


Jerry D. Durham, PhD, RN., FAAN, is Chancellor and Professor of Nursing at Allen College, Waterloo, Iowa.

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Table of Contents

"
    Contributors
    Preface
    Part I: Background
  1. An Introduction to Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, L. Scott Chavers and Sten H. Vermund
  2. Microbial Resistance to Antibiotics, Stephan Harbarth
  3. Categories and Highlights of Significant Current Emerging Infectious Diseases, Felissa R. Lashley

    4. Part II: Specific Diseases
  4. Cholera, Laurie J. Singel and Felissa R. Lashley
  5. Cryptosporidiosis, Jeanne Beauchamp Hewitt
  6. Cyclospora cayetanensis: Arriving via Guatemalan Raspberries, Felissa R. Lashley
  7. Dengue Fever, Barbara J. Holtzclaw
  8. Ebola, Marburg, Lassa, and other Hemorrhagic Fevers, Daniel G. Bausch
  9. Escherichia coli O157:H7, Donna Tartasky
  10. Emerging Fungal Infections, David S. Perlin
  11. Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome, James E. Cheek and Amy V. Groom
  12. Hepatitis C, Victoria Davey
  13. HIV / AIDS, Inge B. Corless
  14. Avian Influenza A (H5N1), James Mark Simmerman and Timothy M. Uyeki
  15. Legionellosis: Legionnaires Disease and Pontiac Fever, Christina R. Phares and Matthew R. Moore
  16. Lyme Disease, Ehrlichiosis, Anaplasmosis, and Babesiosis, Felissa R. Lashley
  17. Malaria, Barbara A. Goldrick
  18. Metapneumovirus, Bernadette G. van den Hoogen, and Albert D.M.E. Osterhaus, and Ron A.M. Fouchier
  19. Monkeypox and Other Emerging Orthopoxvirus Infections, Kurt D. Reed
  20. Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis, Neil W. Schluger
  21. Prion Diseases: Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease and Other Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies, Felissa R. Lashley
  22. SARS: From Zoonosis to Pandemic Threat, Bart L. Haagmans and Albert D.M.E. Osterhaus
  23. West Nile Virus, Felissa R. Lashley

    24. Part III: Special Considerations
  24. The Role of Infection in Some Cancers and Chronic Diseases, Felissa R. Lashley
  25. Travel, Recreation, and Emerging Infectious Diseases, Felissa R. Lashley
  26. Immunocompromised Persons and Emerging Infectious Diseases, Victoria Davey
  27. Bioterrorism in the Context of Infectious Diseases, Miriam Cohen
  28. Behavioral and Cultural Aspects of Transmission and Infection, Barbara Jeanne Fahey
  29. Into the Future, C. J. Peters

    30. Appendices
    Appendix A:Emerging / Reemerging Diseases by Organism, Felissa R. Lashley
    Appendix B:Emerging / Reemerging Diseases by Modes of Transmission, Felissa R. Lashley
    Appendix C:Prevention of Emerging/Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Felissa R. Lashley
    Appendix D:Selected Resources, Jerry D. Durham and Felissa R. Lashley
    Glossary
    Index
"

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Praise for the first edition:

"...this book is a gem to read... it's an invaluable resource to clinicians and educators who want a state-of-the-science reference for this fascinating and important field."

--Elaine Larson, RN, PhD, FAAN, CIC, Columbia University, School of Nursing

"This interesting and well researched text avoids politicizing, yet the authors carefully discuss the demographic, psychosocial, behavioral, and health care technology-based factors that have contributed to infectious disease emergence and transmission. Strategies for dealing with these diseases are thoroughly and courageously discussed. The text is logically ordered and contains many references. Each chapter is accompanied by a succinct, yet inclusive, summary. Specific diseases have their own chapters; it is noteworthy that the authors have chosen to include prisons and bioterrorism in the discussion....Nursing students, nursing professionals, and allied health care practitioners can benefit from a careful reading of this text."

--Sandy Carroll, MSN, RN

College of the Canyons, Valencia, CA

The Research Journal of the National League for Nursing 2009

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