Infectious Diseases

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This concise and practical guide describes infections ingeographical areas and provides information on disease risk,concomitant infections (such as co-prevalence of HIV andtuberculosis) and emerging bacterial, viral and parasiticinfections in a given geographical area of the world. Infectious Diseases: A Geographic Guide is dividedaccording to United Nations world regions and addresses geographicdisease profiles, presenting symptoms and incubation periods ofinfections. Each chapter contains a section on the coverage of thechildhood vaccination programs in the countries included in thatregion. Chapters also include descriptions of infectious diseaserisk and problems with resistant bacteria in each region (e.g.antibiotic resistance in Salmonella infections in SoutheastAsia). For the clinician, this book is a tool to generatedifferential diagnoses by considering the geographical history, aswell the presenting symptoms and duration of illness. Forthe travel medicine specialist, this book providesinformation on risks of different diseases at various destinationsand is particularly useful in advising long-termtravelers.

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Eskild Petersen

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"I found this a very interesting read. The opening chapter is a historical overview of infectious disease, going back hundreds of thousands of years and coming up the present day." (British Journal of Cardiology, 2011)
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