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1 online resource (xix, 459 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps |
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Public health in the 21st century series |
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Public health in the 21st century series.
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Epidemics
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Epidemiology.
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Pandemics.
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Disease Outbreaks
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Communicable Disease Control
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Epidemiology
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Epidemics
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Pandemics
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pandemics.
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MEDICAL -- Health Risk Assessment.
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epidemics.
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MEDICAL -- Epidemiology.
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Epidemics
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Epidemiology
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Holmgren, Albin
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Borg, Gerhard
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ISBN |
9781611225396 |
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1611225396 |
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