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Title Handbook of disease outbreaks : prevention, detection and control / Albin Holmgren and Gerhard Borg, editors
Published Hauppauge, N.Y. : Nova Science, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 459 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps
Series Public health in the 21st century series
Public health in the 21st century series.
Contents HANDBOOK OF DISEASE OUTBREAKS: PREVENTION, DETECTION AND CONTROL; HANDBOOK OF DISEASE OUTBREAKS: PREVENTION, DETECTION AND CONTROL ; CONTENTS; PREFACE ; CONTROLLING DISEASE OUTBREAKS: THE CHANGING ROLE OF HOSPITALS ; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION ; PREPARING THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM ; IMPACT OF AVIAN INFLUENZA IN THE NETHERLANDS; HOSPITAL CAPACITY ; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT CAPACITY ; WORKFORCE ; GENERAL PRACTITIONERS; AGE DISTRIBUTION ; UNDERLYING DISEASE AND CO-MORBIDITY; MITIGATION OF PANDEMIC INFLUENZA; CONTAINMENT MEASURES FOR PANDEMIC INFLUENZA; HEALTHCARE SYSTEM READINESS ; INTERNAL PREPARATION
BUSINESS CONTINUITY EXTERNAL PREPARATION; EVIDENCE-BASED MANAGEMENT; EVIDENCE FROM FOCUSED MODELLING: A CASE STUDY FROM THE NETHERLANDS ; HEALTHCARE SYSTEM READINESS; HOSPITAL AND INTENSIVE CARE UNIT CAPACITY; WORKFORCE ; GENERAL PRACTITIONERS ; AGE DISTRIBUTION ; UNDERLYING DISEASE AND CO-MORBIDITY; MITIGATION AND CONTAINMENT MEASURES FOR PANDEMIC INFLUENZA ; METHODOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS; CONCLUSION ; ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ; REFERENCES ; CUBAN EPIDEMIC OPTIC NEUROPATHY: AN APPRAISAL OF THE PATHOPHYSIOLOGICAL MECHANISMS ; ABSTRACT ; 1. INTRODUCTION ; 2. CLINICAL SYNDROMES; 2.1. Optic Neuropathy
2.2. Peripheral Neuropathy 2.3. Mixed Form; 3. EPIDEMIOLOGY; 4. ETIOLOGIC FEATURES; 4.1. Nutrition; 4.2. Neurotoxicity; 4.2.1. Cyanide toxicity ; 4.2.2. Methanol toxicity; Animal Models ; 4.3. Genetic ; 4.4. Viral Hypothesis ; 5. PATHOPHYSIOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS ; 5.1. Oxidative Stress; 5.2. Excitoxicity ; 5.3. Barrier Systems in CEON ; 6. CONCLUSION ; REFERENCES ; NEW STRATEGIES TO SOLVE AN ANCIENT PROBLEM: PREVENTION OF BUBONIC AND PNEUMONIC PLAGUE USING PLANT-DERIVED VACCINES ; ABSTRACT ; INTRODUCTION; VACCINES AGAINST BUBONIC AND PNEUMONIC PLAGUE
1. CELL-BASED FIRST GENERATION PLAGUE VACCINES 1.1. Killed Whole Cell Vaccines (KWCV) ; 1.2. Live Attenuated Vaccines ; 1.3. New Generation of Y. pestis Live Attenuated Vaccines; 2. ACELLULAR SUBUNIT VACCINES BASED ON F1 AND V ANTIGENS CURRENTLY UNDER DEVELOPMENT AND TRIAL ; 2.1. Escherichia Coli Produced Plague Vaccines ; 2.2. DNA Vaccines for Plague; 2.3. Particulate Vaccines ; 3. SALMONELLA-BASED PLAGUE VACCINES; 4. PLANT-DERIVED PLAGUE VACCINES ; 4.1. Stable Expression of Plague Antigens in Tomato Fruit Using Nuclear Transformation
4.2. Stable Expression of Plague Antigens in Tobacco Using Chloroplast Transformation 4.3. Transient Expression of Plague Antigens in Nicotiana Benthamiana ; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES ; FROM "NEVER TO HARM" TO HARNESSING PLAGUE: A PARADIGM SHIFT IN PLAGUE ETHICS; ABSTRACT ; AN OUTLINE PROPOSED; INEVITABLE SYNERGY: SCIENCE AND MEDICINE TRAPPED IN HISTORY'S FLOW ; HARNESSING PLAGUE: WHEN HARM FIRST BECAME RULE RATHER THAN EXCEPTION ; A BIOETHICAL PRIMER: WHEN DID PHYSICIANS GO FROM "DO NOT HARM" TO UNIT 731? ; DUAL LOYALTY AND PHYSICIANS TODAY: STATE OF THE QUESTION; REFERENCES
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Epidemics
Epidemiology.
Pandemics.
Disease Outbreaks
Communicable Disease Control
Epidemiology
Epidemics
Pandemics
pandemics.
MEDICAL -- Health Risk Assessment.
epidemics.
MEDICAL -- Epidemiology.
Epidemics
Epidemiology
Form Electronic book
Author Holmgren, Albin
Borg, Gerhard
ISBN 9781611225396
1611225396