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Despite numerous scientific investigations on vector-borne human infections such as malaria, filariasis, Lyme disease and typhus, these diseases continue to threaten human health. Understanding the role of vectors in disease transmission, and the most appropriate control strategies, is therefore essential. This book provides information on the recognition, biology, ecology and medical importance of the arthropods that affect human health. The fifth edition of this popular textbook is completely updated, and incorporates the latest strategies for controlling insects, ticks and mites. Numerous illustrations, with new colour photographs of some of the most important vectors, aid recognition. A glossary of entomological and epidemiological terms is included, along with a list of commonly used insecticides and their trade names. Clearly presented in a concise style, this text is aimed at students of medical entomology, tropical medicine, parasitology and pest control. It is also essential reading for physicians, health officials and community health workers.

Insects --- Arachnid Vectors. --- Arachnida --- Communicable Diseases --- Insect Vectors. --- Entomology. --- Insects as carriers of disease. --- Insectes (Vecteurs de maladies) --- Entomologie --- pathogenicity. --- transmission. --- Arachnid Vectors --- Insect Vectors --- pathogenicity --- transmission --- Insecta --- Insects - pathogenicity --- Arachnida - pathogenicity --- Communicable Diseases - transmission

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An extraordinary array of infectious agents affects humans; from worms, arthopods, and fungi to bacteria, viruses, and prions. In this compendium of the curious and fascinating organisms that cause disease, including Legionnaire's disease, mumps, CJD, and chlamydia, David I. Grove provides a lively, fact-filled account of the nature of each organism, their life cycle, the ingenious ways in which they infect humans, and the human stories behind their discovery.

Parasitic diseases. --- Prion diseases. --- Pediculosis. --- Tapeworms. --- Cestoda --- Cestodes --- Platyhelminthes --- Head lice infestation --- Lice infestation --- Phtheiriasis --- Phthiriasis --- Ectoparasitic infestations --- Encephalopathies, Spongiform --- Prion infections --- Spongiform encephalopathies --- Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies --- Unconventional slow virus diseases --- Communicable diseases --- Slow virus diseases --- Medical parasitology --- Bacterial Infections --- Mycoses --- Virus Diseases --- Parasitic Diseases --- Communicable Diseases --- Disease Vectors --- Arthropod Vectors --- Vector-pathogen relationships --- Worms as carriers of disease --- Arthropod vectors --- Pathogenic fungi --- Pathogenic bacteria --- history --- transmission --- Transmission --- Bacterial Infections - history --- Mycoses - history --- Virus Diseases - history --- Parasitic Diseases - history --- Communicable Diseases - transmission --- Communicable diseases - Transmission

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Quatrième de couverture : "Comment de nouvelles maladies infectieuses apparaissent-elles ? Pourquoi certains antibiotiques cessent-ils d'être efficaces ? Quels impacts peuvent avoir les changements de mode de vie ou les politiques de santé publique sur la virulence des agents pathogènes ? La pandémie du nouveau coronavirus humain, après celles du VIH ou de bactéries multi-résistantes, illustre de manière éclatante l'importance et la rapidité de l'évolution des microbes. A l'approche pasteurienne, qui décortique les mécanismes cellulaires pour apporter des réponses au niveau individuel, il est nécessaire d'associer une approche darwinienne qui étudie la dynamique des populations au sein de leurs environnements : seule une démarche intégrant les deux approches permettra de maîtriser les agents infectieux et de trouver des traitements tant originaux que durables."

Communicable Diseases --- Communicable Diseases, Emerging --- Drug Resistance, Microbial --- Biological Evolution --- Genetics, Microbial --- transmission --- history --- genetics --- Communicable diseases. --- Drug resistance in microorganisms --- Emerging infectious diseases --- Medical policy --- Viruses --- Maladies infectieuses --- Résistance aux antibiotiques --- Médecine darwinienne --- Maladies émergentes --- Politique sanitaire --- Virus --- Evolution --- Évolution. --- Communicable Diseases - transmission --- Communicable Diseases, Emerging - history --- Drug Resistance, Microbial - genetics

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The 1918-19 influenza epidemic killed more than fifty million people worldwide. The SARS epidemic of 2002-3, by comparison, killed fewer than a thousand. The success in containing the spread of SARS was due largely to the rapid global response of public health authorities, which was aided by insights resulting from mathematical models. Models enabled authorities to better understand how the disease spread and to assess the relative effectiveness of different control strategies. In this book, Lisa Sattenspiel and Alun Lloyd provide a comprehensive introduction to mathematical models in epidemiology and show how they can be used to predict and control the geographic spread of major infectious diseases. Key concepts in infectious disease modeling are explained, readers are guided from simple mathematical models to more complex ones, and the strengths and weaknesses of these models are explored. The book highlights the breadth of techniques available to modelers today, such as population-based and individual-based models, and covers specific applications as well. Sattenspiel and Lloyd examine the powerful mathematical models that health authorities have developed to understand the spatial distribution and geographic spread of influenza, measles, foot-and-mouth disease, and SARS. Analytic methods geographers use to study human infectious diseases and the dynamics of epidemics are also discussed. A must-read for students, researchers, and practitioners, no other book provides such an accessible introduction to this exciting and fast-evolving field.

Communicable Diseases - epidemiology. --- Communicable diseases - Epidemiology - Mathematical models. --- Communicable diseases -- Epidemiology -- Mathematical models. --- Communicable Diseases -- epidemiology. --- Communicable Diseases - transmission. --- Communicable Diseases -- transmission. --- Disease Outbreaks - statistics & numerical data. --- Disease Outbreaks -- statistics & numerical data. --- Epidemiologic Methods. --- Epiemiologic Methods. --- Models, Theoretical. --- Communicable diseases --- Epidemiology --- Epidemiologic Methods --- Communicable Diseases --- Disease Outbreaks --- Models, Theoretical --- Infection --- Public Health --- Investigative Techniques --- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment --- Bacterial Infections and Mycoses --- Medicine --- Environment and Public Health --- Health Occupations --- Diseases --- Health Care --- Disciplines and Occupations --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Mathematical models --- Public health. --- Mathematical models. --- Community health --- Health services --- Hygiene, Public --- Hygiene, Social --- Public health services --- Public hygiene --- Sanitary affairs --- Social hygiene --- Contagion and contagious diseases --- Contagious diseases --- Infectious diseases --- Microbial diseases in human beings --- Zymotic diseases --- Epidemics --- statistics & numerical data. --- transmission. --- epidemiology. --- Epidemiologic Method --- Epidemiological Methods --- Methods, Epidemiologic --- Epidemiological Method --- Method, Epidemiologic --- Method, Epidemiological --- Methods, Epidemiological --- Experimental Model --- Experimental Models --- Mathematical Model --- Model, Experimental --- Models (Theoretical) --- Models, Experimental --- Models, Theoretic --- Theoretical Study --- Mathematical Models --- Model (Theoretical) --- Model, Mathematical --- Model, Theoretical --- Models, Mathematical --- Studies, Theoretical --- Study, Theoretical --- Theoretical Model --- Theoretical Models --- Theoretical Studies --- Computer Simulation --- Systems Theory --- methods --- Health --- Human services --- Biosecurity --- Health literacy --- Medicine, Preventive --- National health services --- Sanitation --- Disease outbreaks --- Outbreaks of disease --- Pestilences --- Communicable disease transmission --- Disease transmission --- Germs, Spread of --- Spread of communicable diseases --- Spread of germs --- Transmission of diseases --- Outbreaks --- Transmission --- Pandemics --- Epiemiologic Methods --- epidemiology --- transmission --- statistics & numerical data --- Communicable diseases - Epidemiology - Mathematical models --- Communicable Diseases - epidemiology --- Communicable Diseases - transmission --- Disease Outbreaks - statistics & numerical data --- Wuhan virus. --- Wuhan. --- coronavirus precautions. --- coronavirus symptoms. --- coronavirus usa cases. --- coronavirus. --- mers. --- sars. --- wuhan coronavirus sequence.

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These past years, the media have focused public attention on malpractice in the field of organ donation, with the risk of forgetting that organ donation provides an extraordinary hope of saving lives and gives a splendid example of human solidarity. Transplantation was made possible by the development of scientific and medical knowledge together with the dedication of skilled teams throughout Europe. The shortage of organs and tissue is the key factor for all the problems within the system: the size of the European Union will help to deal with this reality and requires the cooperation of medical teams, dispatching organisms and public health authorities at the European level. The transparency of a faultless organization, from the technical and ethical points of view will increase the public's support of organ donation and decrease organ shortage. The development of the European Union, resulting in free movement within the international market, makes harmonisation of the donation system unavoidable. From the Introduction by Magda de Galan, Belgian Minister of Health.

Surgery --- European Union --- Risk Factors --- Organ Transplantation --- Tissue Transplantation --- Tissue Donors --- Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc --- Communicable diseases --- Donation of organs, tissues, etc --- Complications --- Congresses --- Transmission --- Organ Transplantation. --- Tissue Transplantation. --- Risk Factors. --- Tissue Donors. --- transplantatie (orgaantransplantatie, weefseltransplantatie, allocatie van organen, donorschaarste) --- 612.6.02 --- Donors --- Ovum Donors --- Semen Donors --- Transplant Donors --- Organ Donors --- Donor --- Donor, Organ --- Donor, Ovum --- Donor, Semen --- Donor, Tissue --- Donor, Transplant --- Donors, Organ --- Donors, Ovum --- Donors, Semen --- Donors, Tissue --- Donors, Transplant --- Organ Donor --- Ovum Donor --- Semen Donor --- Tissue Donor --- Transplant Donor --- Tissue and Organ Procurement --- Transplantation --- Directed Tissue Donation --- Transplant Donor Site --- Factor, Risk --- Factors, Risk --- Risk Factor --- Organs at Risk --- Grafting, Tissue --- Transplantation, Tissue --- Tissue Grafting --- Tissues --- Grafting, Organ --- Transplantation, Organ --- Graftings, Organ --- Organ Grafting --- Organ Graftings --- Organ Transplantations --- Transplantations, Organ --- transplantation (transplantation d'organes, transplantation de tissus humains, greffe d'organes, pénurie d'organes, allocation d'organes) --- transplantation --- Donation of organs, tissues, etc. --- Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. --- Congresses. --- congresses. --- Population at Risk --- Populations at Risk --- Risk, Population at --- Risk, Populations at --- Medical transplantation --- Organ transplantation --- Organ transplants --- Organs (Anatomy) --- Surgical transplantation --- Tissue transplantation --- Transplants, Organ --- Preservation of organs, tissues, etc. --- Procurement of organs, tissues, etc. --- Anatomical gifts --- Organ donation --- Tissue donation --- Contagion and contagious diseases --- Contagious diseases --- Infectious diseases --- Microbial diseases in human beings --- Zymotic diseases --- Diseases --- Infection --- Epidemics --- Transmission&delete& --- Complications&delete& --- Donation --- European Union countries --- Transplant surgery --- Transplantation surgery --- Health Correlates --- Risk Factor Scores --- Risk Scores --- Correlates, Health --- Risk Factor Score --- Risk Score --- Score, Risk --- Score, Risk Factor --- Social Risk Factors --- Factor, Social Risk --- Factors, Social Risk --- Risk Factor, Social --- Risk Factors, Social --- Social Risk Factor --- Risk Factors - congresses --- Organ Transplantation - congresses --- Tissue Donors - congresses --- Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc - Complications - European Union countries - Congresses --- Communicable diseases - Transmission - European Union countries - Congresses --- Donation of organs, tissues, etc - European Union countries - Congresses --- Risk factors --- Tissue donors