Emerging Zoonoses : A Worldwide Perspective

The book begins with a review of zoonotic pandemics of the past: the "Black Death" or bubonic plague of the Middle Ages, the Spanish Influenza pandemic (derived from avian influenza) of the early 20th century, to the more modern pandemic of AIDS/HIV infection, which originated in Africa fr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Fong, I. W. (Author)
Corporate Author SpringerLink (Online service)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
SeriesEmerging Infectious Diseases of the 21st Century
Subjects
Medicine.
Medical microbiology.
Virology.
Infectious diseases.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9783319508900
DOI10.1007/978-3-319-50890-0
Physical DescriptionXV, 250 p. 10 illus., 9 illus. in color. online resource.

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Table of Contents:
  • 1.Pandemic zoonoses from the Middle-Ages to the 20th Century
  • 2.Animals and mechanisms of disease transmission
  • 3.Swine and avian influenza outbreaks in recent times
  • 4.Emerging animal coronaviruses: First SARS and now MERS
  • 5.Emergence of new tickborne infections
  • 6.Chikungunya virus and Zika virus expansion: an imitation of Dengue virus
  • 7.Ebola and Marburg: out of Africa
  • 8.Hepatitis E: a zoonosis
  • 9.Zoonotic malaria: Plasmodium knowlesi
  • 10.Zoonotic streptococci: A focus on Streptocccus suis
  • 11.New and emerging parasitic zoonoses.

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