Human emerging and re-emerging infections /

"Emerging and re-emerging pathogens pose several challenges to diagnosis, treatment, and public health surveillance, primarily because pathogen identification is a difficult and time-consuming process due to the "novel" nature of the agent. Proper identification requires a wide array...

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Other Authors: Singh, Sunit K. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley Blackwell, [2016]
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Table of Contents:
  • V. 1. Viral and parasitic infections. Pathogenesis of the Old World arenaviruses in humans / Igor S. Lukashevich
  • Pathogenesis of New World arenaviruses in humans / Verónica Martín, Stefan Kunz, Esteban Domingo, and Noemí Sevilla
  • Pathogenesis of emerging and novel bunyaviruses in humans / Cong Jin and Dexin Li
  • Pathogenesis of Rift Valley fever in humans / Inaia Phoenix and Tetsuro Ikegami
  • Pathogenesis of hantavirus infections / Tarja Sironen Olli Vapalahti and Alexander Plyusnin
  • Molecular pathogenesis of Japanese encephalitis virus infection / Sunit Kumar Singh
  • Dengue virus infection in humans: epidemiology biology pathogenesis and clinical aspects / Fatih Anfasa, Leonard Nainggolan, and Byron E.E. Martina
  • Pathogenesis of West Nile virus in humans / Rianna Vandergaast, Katherine L. Hussmann, and Brenda L. Fredericksen
  • Overview on chikungunya virus pathogenesis / Sunit Kumar Singh
  • Nipah virus infections in humans / Kaw Bing Chua, Chong Tin Tan, and Kum Thong Wong
  • Pathogenesis of hendra virus in humans / Chad E. Mire, Benjamin A. Satterfield, and Thomas W. Geisbert
  • Pathogenesis of rotavirus in humans / Carlos Fernando Narváez, Martha C. Mesa, Alfonso Barreto, Luz-Stella Rodríguez, and Juana Angel
  • Pathogenesis of papillomaviruses in humans / John Doorbar
  • Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus pathogenesis / Lia R. Walker, Anshul V. Subramanya, Zeal T. Akula, and Shaw M. Akula
  • Microsporidiosis in humans / Henry Shikani, Elizabeth S. Didier, and Louis M. Weiss
  • Pathogenesis of Toxoplasma gondii in humans / Hong-Juan Peng, Feng Tan, and David S. Lindsay
  • Pathogenesis of human African trypanosomiasis / Jennifer Cnops and Stefan Magez
  • Pathogenesis of leishmaniasis in humans / Steve Oghumu, Gayathri Natarajan, and Abhay R. Satoskar
  • Pathogenesis of Chagas disease in humans / María-Jesús Pinazo, Faustino Torrico, and Joaquim Gascón
  • Pathogenesis of cryptosporidium in humans / Gabriela Certad, Marwan Osman, and Sadia Benamrouz
  • Pathogenesis of malarial parasites in humans / Caroline Lin Lin Chua, Ricardo Ataíde, Alexandra J. Umbers, and Phillipe Boeuf
  • Pathogenesis of Trichomonas vaginalis in humans / Marlene Benchimol, Antonio Pereira-Neves, and Wanderley de Souza
  • Loa loa pathogenesis in humans / Akue Jean Paul
  • Nematode larva migrans / Kumara Singaravelu, Christina M. Coyle, Yuri C. Martins, Louis M. Weiss, Fabiana S. Machado, / Herbert B. Tanowitz, and Kevin R. Kazacos
  • Pathogenesis of human schistosomiasis / Thien-Linh Le, Susanne H. Sokolow, Olfat Hammam, Chi-Ling Fu, and Michael Hsieh
  • Vector-borne parasitic zoonotic infections in humans / Domenico Otranto and Filipe Dantas-Torres.
  • V. 2. Bacterial and mycotic infections. Pathogenesis of Haemophilus influenzae in humans / Alistair Harrison and Kevin M. Mason
  • Campylobacter jejuni: molecular mechanisms and animal models of colonization and disease / Christopher R. Gourley and Michael E. Konkel
  • Pathogenesis of Francisella tularensis in humans / Monique Barel, Nathalie Grall and Alain Charbit
  • Pathogenesis of Yersinia pestis in humans / E.D. Williamson
  • Pathogenesis of Legionella pneumophila in humans / Adam J. Vogrin and Elizabeth L. Hartland
  • Pathogenesis of Kingella kingae infections / Pablo Yagupsky
  • Pathogenesis of Helicobacter pylori in humans / Carlo-Federico Zambon, Daniela Basso, Michela Pelloso, Alberto Tessari and Mario Plebani
  • Pathogenesis of Chlamydia trachomatis in humans / Luis Otero Guerra, José Antonio Boga, Jonathan Fernández Suárez, Carlos Fernández Benítez and Fernando Vázquez
  • Pertussis or whooping cough / Camille Locht and Nathalie Mielcarek
  • Pathogenesis of human ehrlichioses / Tais Berelli Saito and David H. Walker
  • Neisseria gonorrhoeae: the pathogen, diagnosis, and antimicrobial resistance / Namraj Goire, David J. Speers, Monica M. Lahra and David M. Whiley
  • Pathogenesis of Corynebacterium diphtheriae and Corynebacterium ulcerans / Andreas Burkovski
  • Pathogenesis of Staphylococcus aureus in humans / Thea Lu and Frank R. DeLeo
  • Pathogenesis of Listeria monocytogenes in humans / Hélène Marquis, Douglas A. Drevets, Michael S. Bronze, Sophia Kathariou, Thaddeus G. Golos and J. Igor Iruretagoyena
  • Anthrax infection / Kenneth E. Remy, Caitlin Hicks and Peter Q. Eichacker
  • Pathogenesis of Streptococcus in humans / Roberta Creti, Giovanni Gherardi, Alberto Berardi and Lucilla Baldassarri
  • Pathogenesis of Clostridium botulinum in humans / Sabine Pellett
  • Mycobacterium ulcerans and Buruli ulcer / Mark Eric Benbow, Belinda Hall, Lydia Mosi, Sophie Roberts, Rachel Simmonds and Heather Williamson Jordan
  • Challenges associated with diagnostics, drug resistance, and pathogenesis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis / Juan Carlos Palomino and Anandi Martin
  • Pathogenesis of Orientia tsutsugamushi infection in humans / Wiwit Tantibhedhyabgkul and Jean-Louis Mege
  • Lyme borreliosis / John J. Halperin
  • NDM-type carbapenemases in gram-negative rods / Laurent Dortet, Laurent Poirel and Patrice Nordmann
  • Pathogenesis of cryptococcosis in humans / Ricardo Negroni and Alicia I. Arechavala
  • Candida albicans: clinical relevance, pathogenesis, and host immunity / Alexandra Correia, Paula Sampaio, Manuel Vilanova and Célia Pais
  • Pathogenesis of Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia / Taylor Eddens, Aniket Kaloti and Jay K. Kolls
  • Pathogenesis of aspergillosis in humans / George Dimopoulos, Dimitrios K. Matthaiou, Nikolaos Moussas, Olympia Apostolopoulou, George Arabatzis, Aristea Velegraki and Garyphalia Poulakou.