WHO Guidelines on Tularaemia.

Tularaemia is a bacterial zoonotic disease of the northern hemisphere. The bacterium (Francisella tularensis) is highly virulent for humans and a range of animals such as rodents, hares and rabbits. Humans can infect themselves by direct contact with infected animals, by arthropod bites, by ingestio...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Organization, World Health
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Geneva : World Health Organization, 2007.
Colección:Epidemic and PandemicAlert and Re sponse.
Temas:
Tularemia > Diagnosis.
Tularemia > Diagnosis > Laboratory manuals.
Tularemia > Treatment.
Disaster medicine > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Francisella tularensis > Health aspects.
Tularémie > Traitement.
Médecine de catastrophes > Guides, manuels, etc.
Disaster medicine
Handbooks and manuals
Laboratory manuals
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preliminaries; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 The infectious agent; 3 Epidemiology; 4 Clinical expression in humans; 5 Treatment; 6 Laboratory diagnostics and discrimination of subspecies and strains; 7 Surveillance and outbreak management; 8 Considerations for handling F tularensis; 9 References; Annexes; A Diagnostic protocols; B Tests for supplemental characterization; C Protocols for preparation of selected F tularensis culture media; D Reagent list; E Transport of specimens and cultures of F tularensis; F Checklist for outbreak investigation.
  • G Protocols for trapping and sampling small mammalsIndex.

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