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Microbial threats to health : emergence, detection, and response /

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Microbial threats to health (Print)
Corporate Author: Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Emerging Microbial Threats to Health in the 21st Century
Other Authors: Smolinski, Mark S., Hamburg, Margaret A., Lederberg, Joshua
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, [2003]
Subjects:
Communicable Diseases, Emerging > epidemiology.
Communicable Diseases, Emerging > prevention & control.
Communicable Disease Control.
Table of Contents:
  • Spectrum of microbial threats :
  • The global burden of AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria
  • Emerging infectious diseases
  • Antimicrobial-resistant infections
  • Chronic diseases with infectious etiology
  • Microbes intentionally used for harm
  • Factors in emergence :
  • Microbial adaptation and change
  • Human susceptability to infection
  • Climate and weather
  • Changing ecosystems
  • Economic development and land use
  • Human demographics and behavior
  • Technology and industry
  • International travel and commerce
  • Breakdown of public health measures
  • Poverty and social inequality
  • War and famine
  • Lack of political will
  • Intent to harm
  • Addressing the threats, conclusions and recommendations :
  • Enhancing global response capacity
  • Improving global infectious disease surveillance
  • Rebuilding domestic public health capacity
  • Improving domestic surveillance through better disease reporting
  • Exploring innovative systems of surveillance
  • Developing and using diagnostics
  • Educating and training the microbial threat workforce
  • Vaccine development and production
  • Need for new antimicrobial drugs
  • Inappropiate use of antimicrobials
  • Vector-borne and zoonotic disease control
  • Comprehensive infectious disease research agenda
  • Interdisciplinary infectious disease centers