UPC: 9781555819446 | ASM Books: Emerging Infections Volume 10 (Hardcover)

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Essential resource for the fight against emerging infectious diseases Incidences such as the 2014 Ebola epidemic in West Africa and the 2015 appearance of Zika in Brazil provide dramatic evidence of the continued ability of microbes to emerge spread adapt and threaten global health. The challenge facing infectious disease specialists and public health professionals is to improve and find new diagnostic therapeutic and prevention strategies. The editors of the 10th installment of the Emerging Infections series have compiled the perspectives of leading infectious disease experts into 22 chapters that provide important updates on a broad range of emerging and reemerging bacterial viral parasitic and fungal infectious diseases in the United States and globally. In addition to focusing on MERS Ebola virus disease chikungunya and Zika virus disease Emerging Infections 10 explores the global threat of antimicrobial resistance in reviews on carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae multiply-resistant gonococcal infections non-typhoidal Salmonella infections and artemisinin-resistant Plasmodium falciparum malaria. Topics include both recently- and long-recognized diseases that pose challenges for the clinical laboratory research public health and animal health communities. Emerging Infections 10 presents new and emerging strategies to prevent control and eradicate infectious diseases and guides readers to the primary literature where they can explore individual topics in greater depth. This book is a valuable reference for professionals in microbiology epidemiology public health and clinical and veterinary medicine.