Handbook of disease outbreaks : prevention, detection and control /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Holmgren, Albin, Borg, Gerhard
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hauppauge, N.Y. : Nova Science, 2010.
Colección:Public health in the 21st century series.
Temas:
Epidemics.
Epidemiology.
Pandemics.
Disease Outbreaks
Communicable Disease Control
Epidemiology
Epidemics
Pandemics
Épidémiologie.
Pandémies.
Épidémies.
epidemics.
pandemics.
MEDICAL > Health Risk Assessment.
MEDICAL > Epidemiology.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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