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1 online resource |
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Infectious diseases in low-income countries: Where are we now? / Benjamin Roche, Thierry Baldet and Frederic Simard -- Current control strategies for infectious diseasesin low income countries / Frederic Pages, Dominique Maison and Michael Faulde -- Research in crises: overcoming obstacles and lessons for the future / Rebecca Grais -- Afterword I: The burden / Benjamin Roche, Helene Broutin and Frederic Simard -- Spatial-temporal transmission dynamics and control of infectious diseases: Ebola virus disease (EVD) as a case study / Cecile Viboud, Helene Broutin and Gerardo Chowell -- Environmental change and pathogen transmission / Rodolphe E. Gozlan and Marine Combe -- Antimicrobial resistance: the 70-year arms race between Humans and Bacteria / Anne-Laure Banuls, Van Anh Thi Nguyen, Quang Huy Nguyen, Ngoc Anh Thi Nguyen, Hoang Huy Tran and Sylvain Godreuil -- Viral evolution and impact for public health strategies in low-income countries, Jessica Lynn Webster and Marco Vignuzzi -- Afterword II: Fundamental knowledge / Benjamin Roche, Helene Broutin and Frederic Simard / Using Disease Dynamics and Modeling to Inform Control Strategies in Low-Income Countries / Matthew Ferrari -- Evolutionary control of infectious disease in low-income countries / Paul W. Ewald -- Using pathogen interactions: challenges and opportunities / Mathieu Nacher -- Exploiting symbiotic interactions for vector, disease control / Patrick Mavingui, Claire Valiente Moro and Pablo Tortosa -- Host species diversity and the transmission of vector-borne disease in low income countries / Heather Ferguson, Patrick Brock and Steve Torr -- Afterword III: Tunable methods / Benjamin Roche, Helene Broutin and Frederic Simard -- Malaria eradication in Italy: the story of a first success / Marco Pombi, David Modiano and Gilberto Corbellini -- Interactions between ecological and socio-economic drivers of Buruli ulcer burden in sub-Saharan Africa. Opportunities for an improved control / Andres Garchitorena, Matthew H. Bonds, Jean-Francois Guegan and Benjamin Roche -- Ecological control of schistosomiasis in Sub-Saharan Africa: restoration of predator-prey dynamics to reduce transmission / Isabel Jones, Andrea Lund, Gilles Riveau, Nicolas Jouanard, Raphael A. Ndione, Susanne H. Sokolow and Giulio A. De Leo -- Afterword IV: Case studies, Benjamin Roche, Helene Broutin and Frederic Simard -- Optimizing public health strategies in low-income countries: Epidemiology, ecology and evolution for the control of malaria. / Eve Miguel, Florence Fournet, Serge Yerbanga, Nicolas Moiroux, Franck Yao, Timothee Vergne, Bernard Cazelles, Roch K. Dabire, Frederic Simard and Benjamin Roche -- Human activities and disease transmission: the agriculture case / Jan Slingenbergh, Giuliano Cecchi and Marjan Leneman --Ecology of Poverty, Disease and Health Care Delivery: Lessons for Planetary Health / Matthew H. Bonds, Andres Garchitorena, Paul E. Farmer and Megan B. Murray -- African and global health care prospects: The importance of the use of knowledge / Dominique Kerouedan -- Optimizing public health strategies in low-income countries: The challenge to apply the scientific knowledge and for which disease? / Benjamin Roche, Helene Broutin and Frederic Simard, on behalf of all authors |
| Summary |
Provides an up-to-date, authoritative, and challenging review of the ecology and evolution of infectious diseases, focusing on low-income countries for effective public health applications and outcomes |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 23, 2018) |
| Subject |
Communicable diseases -- Developing countries -- Epidemiology
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Communicable diseases -- Developing countries -- Prevention
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Evolution (Biology)
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Ecology.
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Communicable Disease Control
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Communicable Diseases -- epidemiology
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Biological Evolution
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Ecology
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Public Health Practice
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Developing Countries
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evolution.
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ecology.
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MEDICAL -- Forensic Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Preventive Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Public Health.
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Communicable diseases -- Prevention
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Communicable diseases -- Epidemiology
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Communicable diseases
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Epidemiology
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Microorganisms -- Evolution
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Developing countries
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Roche, Benjamin, editor.
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Broutin, Hélène, editor.
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Simard, Frédéric, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780191831508 |
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0191831506 |
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9780192507105 |
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0192507109 |
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