Zoonoses: Biology, Clinical Practice, and Public Health ControlZoonoses are diseases naturally transmissible between vertebrates and man including those contracted through direct contact with infected animals or carcases, food or water contamination, or inhalation of infected dust. They are becoming an increasingly important public health issue. This multidisciplinary book is written by recognized experts in biology, epidemiology, and human and vetinary medicine. Divided into three sections--Bacteriology, Parasitology and Virology--this book comprehensively covers all zoonoses. Each of the seventy chapters covers a separate disease, discussing its history, the scientific basis for its management, the microbiology of the causative agent, pathogenesis, clinical features, symptoms and signs, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis. The epidemiology and epizoology of each disease is described alongside the strategies for prevention and control. |
Contents
Anthrax | 3 |
Borreliosis Relapsing Fever | 17 |
Brucellosis 223 | 23 |
Copyright | |
67 other sections not shown
Common terms and phrases
acute Africa agent American Journal animals anthrax antibiotic antibody antigen areas associated avian bacteria birds bite blood Brucella burnetii Campylobacter cat-scratch disease cats cattle cause cells cent Clinical Microbiology contaminated Coxiella burnetii culture detection develop diagnosis dogs Ebola effective ehrlichiosis encephalitis endemic epidemic Epidemiology Escherichia coli experimental gene genetic genome genus Giardia haemorrhagic fever hantavirus Health host human infection illness immune infection Infectious Diseases influenza viruses inoculation isolated Journal of Infectious laboratory leishmaniasis leptospirosis lesions listeriosis Lyme disease Medical membrane mice milk molecular monkeys Mountain spotted fever occur organism outbreaks parasites pathogenic patients pigs population protein Q fever rabies reported reservoir result risk Rocky Mountain spotted rodents Salmonella scrapie scrub typhus serological serotypes sheep species spotted fever group strains studies susceptible symptoms syndrome tick-borne ticks tion tissue toxin transmission treatment Tropical Medicine typhus vaccine vector Veterinary viral Virology virulence virus infection VTEC yellow fever Yersinia zoonotic