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  • Tu Youyou And The Discovery Of Artemisinin: 2015 Nobel Laureate In Physiology Or Medicine

    by Yi Rao, Daqing Zhang, Runhong Li ...
    Nobel laureate Tu Youyou won the 2015 prize for Medicine/Physiology for the discovery of artemisinin, a drug therapy for malaria that has saved millions across the globe.This book traces the path of discovery beginning with Chairman Mao's 1964 instruction to Chinese researchers to find a cure for malaria, a disease that plagued the military and civilians alike in endemic regions. It chronicles the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Pale Rider

    The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World

    by Laura Spinney ...
    **The haunting story of a virus that triggered the worst pandemic of modern times“Both a saga of tragedies and a detective story.” —The Guardian**The flu pandemic of 1918–1920 was one of the greatest human disasters of all time. It infected a third of the people on Earth—from the poorest immigrants of New York City to the king of Spain, Franz Kafka, Mahatma Gandhi, and Woodrow Wilson. But despite ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Challenging Concepts in Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology

    Cases with Expert Commentary

    Edited by Amber Arnold, George Griffin ...
    Series series Challenging Cases
    Challenging Concepts in Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology details over 30 challenging cases from a wide area of infectious diseases, medical microbiology and virology and includes topics ranging from typhoid fever to secondary syphilis. This case-based learning book ideal for trainees and speciality registrars. Each case is supported by the commentary of a renowned expert in the field, ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Biofilms in Infection Prevention and Control

    A Healthcare Handbook

    Edited by Tracey Cooper, Jacqueline Randle, Steven L. Percival, David Williams ...
    Biofilms in Infection and Disease Control: A Healthcare Handbook outlines the scientific evidence and rationale for the prevention of infection, the role biofilms play in infection control, and the issues concerning their resistance to antimicrobials. This book provides practical guidance for healthcare and infection control professionals, as well as students, for preventing and controlling ... Read more

    $106.19 USD

  • One Health: The Human-Animal-Environment Interfaces in Emerging Infectious Diseases

    Food Safety and Security, and International and National Plans for Implementation of One Health Activities

    Edited by John S. Mackenzie, Martyn Jeggo, Peter Daszak, Juergen A. Richt ...
    Series Book 366 - Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology
    One Health is an emerging concept that aims to bring together human, animal, and environmental health. Achieving harmonized approaches for disease detection and prevention is difficult because traditional boundaries of medical and veterinary practice must be crossed. In the 19th and early 20th centuries this was not the case—then researchers like Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch and physicians like ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

  • The Infected Total Knee Arthroplasty

    Prevention, Diagnosis, and Treatment

    Edited by Sam Oussedik, E. Carlos Rodríguez-Merchán ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This book is structured in a way that guides the reader from prevention through to diagnosis and then treatment of infection following total knee arthroplasty, in each case providing state of the art information on available techniques and procedures. The section on the crucial preventive measures include guidance on preoperative optimization and skin preparation, antibiotic prophylaxis, and ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Manson's Tropical Infectious Diseases

    Expert Consult - Online and Print

    by Jeremy Farrar, FRCP, FMedAcSci, DPhil, OBE, Nicholas J. White, OBE, MD, DSc, FRCP, F Med Sci, FRS, Peter J Hotez, MD, PhD, FAAP, FASTMH, Gagandeep Kang, MD, PhD, FRCPath, FASc, FAAM, David Lalloo, MBBS, MD, FRCP, FFTM, RCPS(Glasg), Thomas Junghanss, MD, MScPHDC (Lon) ...
    From the difficult to diagnose to the difficult to treat, Manson’s Tropical Diseases prepares you to effectively handle whatever your patients may have contracted. Featuring an internationally recognized editorial team, global contributors, and expert authors, this revised and updated medical reference book provides you with the latest coverage on parasitic and infectious diseases from around the ... Read more

    $194.99 USD

  • Advances in Immunology

    Edited by Frederick W. Alt ...
    Series Book 86 - Advances in Immunology
    Advances in Immunology, a long established and highly respected publication, presents current developments as well as comprehensive reviews in immunology. Articles address the wide range of topics that comprise immunology, including molecular and cellular activation mechanisms, phylogeny and molecular evolution, and clinical modalities. Edited and authored by the foremost scientists in the field, ... Read more

    $175.49 USD

  • Congenital and Perinatal Infections

    Edited by Jennifer S. Read, Mark R. Schleiss ...
    CONGENITAL AND PERINATAL INFECTIONS provides a concise and clinically-oriented primer on the congenital and perinatal infections likely to present in clinical practice. Written with the busy clinician in mind, it combines easy accessibility with state-of-the-art information on the epidemiology, pathogenesis, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of congenital and perinatal ... Read more

    $79.19 USD

  • Reemergence of Established Pathogens in the 21st Century

    Edited by Karl Drlica, I.W. Fong ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    In the closing decade of the last century, we saw warnings that infectious diseases will require much more attention from patients and physicians in the 21 st century. Recently d- covered diseases such as AIDS pose a major threat to the population at large, and to that threat has been added the re-emergence of established pathogens, microbes that were re- ily treatable in the past. Since ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Infection and Cancer: Bi-Directorial Interactions

    Edited by Michael R. Shurin, Yasmin Thanavala, Nahed Ismail ...
    This unique book summarizes current knowledge on co-development of infectious diseases and cancer. It provides an overview of the complex and unique role of the immune system, inflammation, tumor-mediated immunosuppression and infection-induced immunomodulation in cancer and infection progression.Chapters are organized into themed parts, beginning with a look at the historical perspective of human ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Cholera and the Ecology of Vibrio cholerae

    Edited by B.D. Forrest, B.S. Drasar ...
    Only in recent years has it been revealed that V. cholerae is a normal inhabitant of esturine and riverine waters. This means that even if the disease can be eliminated from human population by vaccines etc. the vibrio will continue to survive independently in the environment. It is likely that the environment is the source of epidemic strains. This is the first book to focus on the implication of ... Read more

    $188.99 USD