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The goal of Schistosomiasis is to provide the reader with insights into the active research and programs currently related to schistosomiasis, and to use these insights as a way to project forward into the next 10-15 years of work on this disease, spanning the spectrum from research to public health interventions. A secondary goal of this volume is to initiate conversations among those working across the research-to-control spectrum on schistosomiasis about the future of their field, and by doing so lead to constructive efforts to identify and address the most critical questions and challenges related to schistosomiasis. The book covers four main areas: schistosome phylogenetics, gene expression, and the overall genome, including information on exciting new tools for addressing questions that have long been inaccessible to schistosomologists; the host-schistosome interaction at the larval to adult worm interface and addresses aspects important for vaccine development as well as how differential gene expression as detected by DNA microarrays may be utilized to develop tools for detection and control of infection or pathology; the development of the host immune response to eggs, granuloma formation and factors affecting the development and regulation of immunopathology; and the public health concerns associated with schistosomiasis, including morbidity control, host genetics, treatment and proposals for improved partnerships. The volume concludes with a chapter addressing the schisms that sometimes exist along the spectrum from basic research programs to the implementation of control schemes, and a proposal to make these differences benefit patients and researchers rather than succumb to base temptations to compete for resources to no one’s benefit. Like many of the diseases featured in the World Class Parasites series, the prospects for dramatic advances in schistosomiasis coincide with a seemingly shrinking pool of both human and material resources. The most meaningful progress will occur as the laboratory better understands the needs in the field and the field better understands the capabilities of the laboratory.

Schistosomiasis. --- Distomatosis. --- Distomiasis --- Trematode infections --- Helminthiasis --- Bilharziasis --- Bilharziosis --- Katayama disease --- Snail fever --- Distomatosis --- Morphology (Animals). --- Emerging infectious diseases. --- Animal Anatomy / Morphology / Histology. --- Infectious Diseases. --- Emerging infections --- New infectious diseases --- Re-emerging infectious diseases --- Reemerging infectious diseases --- Communicable diseases --- Animal morphology --- Animals --- Body form in animals --- Zoology --- Morphology --- Animal anatomy. --- Infectious diseases. --- Animal anatomy --- Biology --- Physiology --- Anatomy

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La protesi totale di ginocchio è divenuta oggi intervento di routine nelle nostre sale operatorie. La diffusione di tale intervento non deve però far dimenticare quanto sia complessa questa chirurgia articolare, che si avvale anche di sofisticati ausili informatici. Basandosi sulla loro lunga e collaudata esperienza, gli autori di questo quarto volume della collana forniscono al lettore un’aggiornata rassegna dello stato dell’arte.

Knee --- Arthroplasty. --- Surgery. --- Joints --- Surgery, Plastic --- Excision of knee --- Surgery --- Orthopedics. --- Emerging infectious diseases. --- Surgical oncology. --- Orthopedic surgery. --- Rheumatology. --- Infectious Diseases. --- Surgical Oncology. --- Surgical Orthopedics. --- Internal medicine --- Connective tissues --- Operative orthopedics --- Orthopedics --- Surgery, Operative --- Cancer --- Oncologic surgery --- Oncological surgery --- Surgical oncology --- Emerging infections --- New infectious diseases --- Re-emerging infectious diseases --- Reemerging infectious diseases --- Communicable diseases --- Orthopaedics --- Orthopedia --- Diseases --- Excision --- Treatment --- Infectious diseases.

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Fungal immunology, an expanding field of research, studies the interaction between fungi and the immune system. Modulated immunity as well as evasive mechanisms played by fungi all contribute to the chronicity and reoccurrence of fungal infections. Hypersensitivity to various fungal elements plays a major role in the pathogenesis of many diseases. This book will serve as a comprehensive review of all known immune mechanisms for common medically important fungal pathogens. Its novelty lies in the organization: Rather than chapters devoted to specific fungi, chapters are organized by organ system. All other texts in the field, which are now quite old, are arranged according to specific fungi. Organization by body system rather than fungi is important because one particular fungus can have a different effect on defense mechanisms in different parts of the body.

Mycoses --- Pathogenic fungi. --- Immunological aspects. --- Fungi, Pathogenic --- Fungi --- Pathogenic microorganisms --- Medical mycology --- Fungal diseases --- Fungal infections --- Fungous diseases --- Mycosis --- Mycotic diseases --- Mycotic infections --- Immunology. --- Microbiology. --- Emerging infectious diseases. --- Thoracic surgery. --- Medical Microbiology. --- Infectious Diseases. --- Thoracic Surgery. --- Microbial biology --- Biology --- Microorganisms --- Immunobiology --- Life sciences --- Serology --- Emerging infections --- New infectious diseases --- Re-emerging infectious diseases --- Reemerging infectious diseases --- Communicable diseases --- Thoracic surgery --- Thoracic surgeons --- Medical microbiology. --- Infectious diseases.

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Orthopoxviruses Pathogenic for Humans covers those viruses capable of causing disease in man, including monkeypox, smallpox, cowpox, and vaccinia. The coverage of each virus is comprehensive, covering the biology, molecular biology, and ecology of the virus as well as the clinical and epidemiological aspects of these viruses in humans and animals. In addition, this volume highlights developments in genetic engineering that are paving the way for potential therapeutic treatments of these viruses.

Orthopoxviruses. --- Poxviruses. --- Poxviruses --- Poxviridae --- DNA viruses --- Medical virology. --- Immunology. --- Microbiology. --- Emerging infectious diseases. --- Epidemiology. --- Virology. --- Infectious Diseases. --- Public Health. --- Diseases --- Public health --- Emerging infections --- New infectious diseases --- Re-emerging infectious diseases --- Reemerging infectious diseases --- Communicable diseases --- Microbial biology --- Biology --- Microorganisms --- Immunobiology --- Life sciences --- Serology --- Medical microbiology --- Virology --- Virus diseases --- Infectious diseases. --- Public health. --- Community health --- Health services --- Hygiene, Public --- Hygiene, Social --- Public health services --- Public hygiene --- Social hygiene --- Health --- Human services --- Biosecurity --- Health literacy --- Medicine, Preventive --- National health services --- Sanitation --- Microbiology

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Emergency Abdominal Surgery is a battlefield for the surgeon - providing character-building experiences, and opportunities for triumph and disaster. In the second edition of this 'simple' book emergency abdominal surgery is discussed in an informal and no nonsense fashion - as practiced in the 'trenches' of the ER and the OR. The preferred approach for a given situation is discussed in context; it has to fulfill certain prerequisites: save live, decrease morbidity, be cost effective and be performed correctly. Review of the 1st Edition: 'What makes this book very readable are the 'pregnant' citations, aphorisms and 'smart savings', which are often heard at the bedside and operation rooms but almost never reach the pages of a book'. (P. Klein, Chirurg, 2000). ' This is written with short punchy chapters making it very difficult to put down....'. (R A B Wood, Journal Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, 2000) ' Since Mondor's times in the forties of the last century there was no other book in surgery to be written so easy and witty...' (Boris D. Savchuk, World Journal of Surgery, 2002).

Abdomen --- Surgical emergencies. --- Surgery. --- Critical care surgery --- Emergency surgery --- Medical emergencies --- Surgery --- Abdominal surgery --- Laparotomy --- Emergency medicine. --- Trauma. --- Emerging infectious diseases. --- Critical care medicine. --- General Surgery. --- Emergency Medicine. --- Traumatic Surgery. --- Infectious Diseases. --- Intensive / Critical Care Medicine. --- Intensive care --- Intensive medicine --- Medicine --- Emergency medicine --- Intensive care units --- Emerging infections --- New infectious diseases --- Re-emerging infectious diseases --- Reemerging infectious diseases --- Communicable diseases --- Medicine, Emergency --- Critical care medicine --- Disaster medicine --- Surgery, Primitive --- Traumatology. --- Infectious diseases. --- Accident medicine --- Trauma medicine --- Wounds and injuries