Infectious Diseases

The second edition of this concise and practical guide describes infections in geographical areas and provides information on disease risk, concomitant infections (such as co-prevalence of HIV and tuberculosis) and emerging bacterial, viral and parasitic infections in a given geographical area of the world. Geographic approach means that it's the only book to guide the health care worker towards a diagnosis based on the location of symptoms and travel history by encouraging the question 'where have you been?' New content covering MERS, Ebola, Zika, and infections transmitted during air and maritime travel Covers the major infectious disease outbreaks framed in their geographic setting such as H7N9 'bird flu' influenza, H1N1, Ebola, and Zika Outstanding international editor team with vast experience on various international infectious disease and as journal editors and key leaders in infection surveillance

The second edition of this concise and practical guide describes infections in geographical areas and provides information on disease risk, concomitant infections (such as co-prevalence of HIV and tuberculosis) and emerging bacterial, viral and parasitic infections in a given geographical area of the world.* Geographic approach means that it s the only book to guide the health care worker towards a diagnosis based on the location of symptoms and travel history by encouraging the question where have you been?* New content covering MERS, Ebola, Zika, and infections transmitted during air and maritime travel* Covers the major infectious disease outbreaks framed in their geographic setting such as H7N9 bird flu influenza, H1N1, Ebola, and Zika* Outstanding international editor team with vast experience on various international infectious disease and as journal editors and key leaders in infection surveillance

List of contributors, viiiForeword to the first edition by Alan J. Magill (deceased), xvForeword to the second edition by Jay S. Keystone, xviiPreface, xixEnvoi, xxi1 Historical overview of global infectious diseases and geopolitics, 1Francis. E.G. Cox and Frank J. Bia2 Nontraditional infectious diseases surveillance systems, 12Davidson H. Hamer, Kamran Khan, Matthew German, and Lawrence C. Madoff3 Air travel.which infectious disease control measures are worthwhile?, 25Karen J. Marienau4 Infectious illnesses on cruise and cargo ships, 35Joanna J. Regan, J. Scott Vega, and Clive M. Brown5 Microbes on the move: prevention, required vaccinations, curtailment, outbreak, 45Patricia Schlagenhauf-Lawlor, Giles Poumerol, and Francisco Santos-O'Connor6 Diagnostic tests and procedures, 55Eskild Petersen and Tom Boyles7 Central Africa, 78Gerd D. Burchard and Martin P. Grobusch8 East Africa: Madagascar and Indian Ocean Islands, 93Philippe Gautret and Philippe Parola9 Eastern Africa, 104Andreas Neumayr and Christoph Hatz10 North Africa, 124Philippe Gautret, Nadjet Mouffok, and Philippe Parola11 Southern Africa, 137Marc Mendelson, Olga Perovic, and Lucille Blumberg12 West Africa, 154Boubacar Maiga and Patrick Ayeh-Kumi13 East Asia, 167Bin Cao, Fei Zhou, and Mikio Kimura14 South Central Asia, 185Holy Murphy, Gulzhan Abuova, and Prativa Pandey15 South-east Asia, 203Daniel H. Paris and Nicholas J. White16 Western Asia and the Middle East, 220Jaffar A. Al-Tawfiq, Seif S. Al-Abri, and Ziad A. Memish17 Eastern Europe, 235Natalia Pshenichnaya, Malgorzata Paul, and Alexander Erovichenkov18 Northern Europe, 257Birgitta Evengard, Audrone Marcinkute, and Eskild Petersen19 Southern Europe, 269Francesco Castelli, Androula Pavli, and Pier Francesco Giorgetti20 Western Europe, 278Peter J. de Vries and Eric Caumes21 The Caribbean, 302Elizabeth A. Talbot and Laura E. Shevy22 Central America, 317Larry I. Lutwick and Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales23 South America, 335Rodrigo Nogueira Angerami, Luiz Jacintho da Silva, and Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales24 Northern America, 356Barbra M. Blair, Philip R. Fischer, Michael Libman, and Lin H. Chen25 Australia, New Zealand, 375Karin Leder, Joseph Torresi, and Marc Shaw26 Oceania, 390Karin Leder, Joseph Torresi, and Marc Shaw27 Arctic and Antarctica, 404Anders Koch, Michael G. Bruce, and Karin Ladefoged28 The immunosuppressed patient, 419Brian T. Montague, Christopher M. Salas, Terri L. Montague, and Maria D. Mileno29 Emerging infections, 446Mary E. Wilson30 Migration and the geography of disease, 459Rogelio López-Vélez, Francesca F. Norman, and José-Antonio Pérez-Molina31 Climate change and the geographical distribution of infectious diseases, 470Ashwin Swaminathan, Elvina Viennet, Anthony J. McMichael, and David HarleyList of abbreviations, 481Index, 484