UPC: 9789275115800 | Scientific and Technical Publication: Zoonoses and Communicable Diseases Common to Man and Animals (Paperback)

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In recent years zoonoses and communicablediseases common to man and animals have gained increasing attention worldwide.Human diseases that have their origins in infected animals–such as AIDS SARS andCreutzfeldt-Jakob–have highlighted the need for a better understanding ofanimal diseases. The ease and speed of modern travel facilitatesthe spread of diseases once confined to specific geographic areas as recentlyoccurred with the Covid-19 epidemic. Animal migration and trade pose a similarthreat as was shown by the outbreaks in the United States of West Nile feverand monkeypox–two diseases not previously known in the Western Hemisphere. Eachof these examples highlights the need for accurate up-to-date information such as that presented here in the latest edition of Zoonoses and Communicable Diseases Common to Man and Animals. This edition published for the first time inthree volumes covers: I.Bacterioses and mycoses II.Chlamydioses rickettsioses and viroses III.Parasitoses The books provide a detailed overview of themost important historic and emerging zoonotic diseases such as Ebolahemorrhagic fever foot-and-mouth disease influenza giardiasis Japaneseencephalitis shigellosis and spongiform encephalopathies with informationranging from their first appearance and most important outbreaks to the latestscientific knowledge of the diseases and their causative agents. The chaptersprovide the following key information on each disease: etiology geographicdistribution symptoms and occurrence in man and animals source of infection andmode of transmission role of animals in its epidemiology diagnostic techniques and prevention and control measures Numerous tables and figures diagrammingmodes of transmission complement the text. The book is an essential tool for biologists parasitologists virologists veterinarians doctors epidemiologists andworkers in public health and animal health institutions as well as forteachers researchers and students in these fields. All of them will find valuablematerial to enrich their collection of reference works in the third edition ofZoonoses and communicable diseases common to man and animals. Volumes 2(Chlamydioses rickettsioses and viroses) and 3(Parasitoses) are also available.