Catálogo de libros: Enfermedades infectocontagiosas

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  • Infectious Diseases and Arthropods
    Jerome Goddard
    SECTION I. Arthropods and Human Health.- Arthropods and Health.- Dynamics of Arthropod-Borne Diseases.- Section II. Major Arthropod-Borne Diseases.- Mosquito-Borne Diseases.- Tick-Borne Diseases.- Flea-Borne Diseases.- Sand Fly-Transmitted Diseases.- Miscellaneous Vector-Borne Diseases.- Section III. Other Arthropod-Caused or Related Problems.- Health Effects of Bed Bug...
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    196,55 €

  • Complement Activation in Malaria Immunity and Pathogenesis
    José A. Stoute
    Plasmodium falciparum malaria is responsible for the deaths of nearly 500,000 people each year. Much attention has been paid to antibody and cellular mechanisms of immunity against this pathogen. By contrast, the role that the complement system plays in immunity and pathogenesis in this infection is not very well recognized or understood. Based on the work of a number of resear...
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    135,84 €

  • Understanding the Host Immune Response Against Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection
    Vishwanath Venketaraman
    According to the World Health Organization, approximately one third of the world’s population is latently infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb [LTBI]), of whom about 9 million have active tuberculosis (TB). It is estimated that approximately 2 million individuals die each year from active TB. An estimated 14.4% of these individuals have HIV and M. tb co-infection. ...
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    135,81 €

  • Deadly Collections
    Albert P Nous
    A researcher’s compilation and expose of terrorist action, political responses to such, and the engineering of facilities to study and report on biological warfare agents.Do not be afraid of that which you might read! This book is not a training manual to conduct dangerous fieldwork or experiments or build bioweapons! The questions and issues raised involve identifying sources ...
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    28,81 €

  • Infectious Diseases and Your Health
    Prati Pal Singh
    Infectious Diseases and Your Health has the potential to impact and improve your life, and the lives of your loved ones. Every day, nearly 40, 000 people including small children and women die of infectious diseases. Many of these innocent lives could be saved. Your journey through the pages of this book will take you to an amazing world of infectious diseases. You will learn a...
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    209,19 €

  • Antimicrobial Resistance in the 21st Century
    This comprehensive, up-to-date volume defines the issues and offers potential solutions to the challenges of antimicrobial resistance. The chapter authors are leading international experts on antimicrobial resistance among a variety of bacteria, viruses including HIV and herpes, parasites and fungi. The chapters explore the molecular mechanisms of drug resistance, the immunolog...
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    247,26 €

  • Escherichia coli, a Versatile Pathogen
    Escherichia coli is a facultative anaerobic Gamma-proteobacterium, which belongs to the family Enterobacteriaceae. While being an important constituent of the normal gut microbiota, specialized E. coli clones have acquired genetic elements that allow them to compete with the endogenous commensals, colonise normally sterile niches and cause disease. E. coli pathotypes can cause ...
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    208,56 €

  • Healthcare-Associated Infections in Children
    With advances in technology and medical science, children with previously untreatable and often fatal conditions, such as congenital heart disease, extreme prematurity and pediatric malignancy, are living longer.  While this is a tremendous achievement, pediatric providers are now more commonly facing challenges in these medical complex children both as a consequence of their u...
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    124,21 €

  • Congenital Cytomegalovirus Infection
    Gabriele Halwachs-Baumann
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    134,47 €

  • Regional Malaria and Other Communicable Disease Threats Trust Fund
    Asian Development Bank
    This report details the key achievements of the Regional Malaria and Other Communicable Disease Threats Trust Fund from its creation in 2013 to the first half of 2018.It provides detailed analysis of the results by outcome, profiles specific projects that serve as exemplars of the fund’s impact, and offers insights into how similar trust funds can be managed for success in futu...
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    29,91 €

  • Understanding the Host Immune Response Against Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection
    Vishwanath Venketaraman
    According to the World Health Organization, approximately one third of the world’s population is latently infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb [LTBI]), of whom about 9 million have active tuberculosis (TB). It is estimated that approximately 2 million individuals die each year from active TB. An estimated 14.4% of these individuals have HIV and M. tb co-infection. ...
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    134,46 €

  • Spirochete Biology
    Ben Adler
    Spirochetes comprise a fascinating group of bacteria. Although diverse in terms of their habitat, ecology and infectivity for vertebrate and non-vertebrate hosts, they are often considered together because of their similar cellular morphologies. This volume brings together an international group of experts to provide essential insights into spirochete biology, with an emphasis ...
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    196,45 €

  • Influenza Virus
    Yohei Yamauchi
    This book provides researchers with widely used techniques for the study of virology, focusing on molecular biology and imaging to encourage mechanistic investigation of virus-host interactions. Chapters detail a broad range of methods from diagnosis, virus propagation, proteomics, haploid screening, lentiviral screening, virus entry, single molecule RNA imaging, correlative li...
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    333,18 €

  • Antimicrobial Drug Resistance
    The two volumes included in Antimicrobial Drug Resistance, Second Edition is an updated, comprehensive and multidisciplinary reference covering the area of antimicrobial drug resistance in bacteria, fungi, viruses, and parasites from basic science, clinical, and epidemiological perspectives. This newly revised compendium reviews the most current research and development on drug...
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    401,59 €

  • Imaging Infections
    Sanjay K. Jain
    This books brings together multi-disciplinary expertise to provide comprehensive information about molecular imaging of infectious diseases. Also described are the development of new imaging technologies for infectious disease and their translation to the clinic.The overall goal of Imaging Infections: From Bench to Bedside is to spur interest and innovation in this emerging fie...
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    209,99 €

  • Ebolaviruses
    This vital book collects key methods that have supported advancements in the field of ebolavirus molecular biology given the pressing need for the advancement of techniques for diagnostics, the development of vaccines and antivirals, and for furthering our understanding of ebolavirus biology. After an introduction, the volume delves into protocols for studying ebolavirus molecu...
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    210,45 €

  • Human T-Lymphotropic Viruses
    Claudio Casoli
    While HIV-1 continues to be well-researched, this detailed volume draws attention to other members of the Retrovirus family, namely the Human T-lymphotropic Viruses (HTLVs), featuring the most updated technical information about HTLV determination and the methods to investigate their interaction with the host immune system and interfering pathogens. The contents include essenti...
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    205,13 €

  • Advances in Microbiology, Infectious Diseases and Public Health
    Gianfranco Donelli
    Chapter 1: Selection of lactic acid bacteria with probiotic potential isolated from the fermentation process of 'cupuaçu' (Theobroma grandiflorum).- Chapter 2: Effects of Fibronectin Coating on Bacterial and Osteoblast Progenitor Cells Adherence in a Co-culture Assay.- Chapter 3: Improving the Bacterial Recovery by Using Dithiothreitol with Aerobic and Anaerobic Broth in Biofil...
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    175,91 €

  • Meningitis and Encephalitis
    Rodrigo Hasbun
    Meningitis and Encephalitis are associated with high rates of mortality and neurological sequelae.  The differential diagnosis includes a wide spectrum of infectious and non-infectious etiologies, some requiring urgent therapy for survival. The current management challenges in patients with meningitis and encephalitis include a low sensitivity of meningeal signs,  overutilizati...
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    171,67 €

  • Emerging Zoonoses
    I. W. Fong
    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 from primates. However, the majority of chapters focus on more recent zoonoses, which have b...
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    246,85 €

  • Las zoonosis
    Florence Desachy
    En esta obra, la autora nos explica sobre todo los modos de transmisión, las diferencias entre las noonosis 'aparentes' y las 'no aparentes', las bacterianas y las víricas, qué personas pueden estar en situación de riesgo, las grandes reglas preventivas... y a continuación, la enfermedad por enfermedad, nos decribe los agentes patógenos, los síntomas en el ser humano y en los a...
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    28,03 €

  • Complement Activation in Malaria Immunity and Pathogenesis
    Plasmodium falciparum malaria is responsible for the deaths of nearly 500,000 people each year. Much attention has been paid to antibody and cellular mechanisms of immunity against this pathogen. By contrast, the role that the complement system plays in immunity and pathogenesis in this infection is not very well recognized or understood. Based on the work of a number of resear...
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    134,49 €

  • Biology of Chlamydia
    Georg Häcker
    The genus Chlamydia encompasses a number of species of obligate intracellular bacteria, including important human pathogens like the most common bacterial agent of sexually transmitted disease. This volume reviews current knowledge of chlamydial biology, covering the unusual structure of the bacteria - which alternate between metabolically almost inactive and fast-dividing form...
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    245,44 €

  • How to Overcome the Antibiotic Crisis
    This volume focuses on antibiotics research, a field of topical significance for human health due to the worrying increase of nosocomial infections caused by multi-resistant bacteria. It covers several basic aspects, such as the evolution of antibiotic resistance and the influence of antibiotics on the gut microbiota, and addresses the search for novel pathogenicity blockers as...
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    247,67 €

  • Hepatitis C Virus II
    This book helps scientists, clinicians and other interested individuals understand recent clinical advances and challenges for the future. It covers many basic aspects of the pathogenesis of chronic hepatitis C, HCV infections in particular populations, approaches to therapy, and prevention and control of HCV Infection. The book provides a succinct review of the large amount of...
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    247,24 €

  • Handbook of Global Tuberculosis Control
    This ambitious reference surveys worldwide efforts at controlling the spread of tuberculosis, with special emphasis on the developing world. Case studies from China, Pakistan, Nigeria, Indonesia, and other frontline countries demonstrate a wealth of information on clinical, cultural, socioeconomic, and other relevant factors. This compilation provides a valuable resource for cr...
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    366,17 €

  • Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Couples with Mixed HIV Status
    This edited volume presents a detailed portrait of couples living with mixed HIV status, where one partner is HIV-positive and the other negative. Readers will come to understand the various and complex ways in which these mixed-status, or serodiscordant couples build a life together within the shadow of HIV-related stigma. Spanning the globe, coverage explores serodiscordance ...
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    133,86 €

  • Human Respiratory Syncytial Virus
    Thisvolume summarizes current techniques; ranging from protocols for virus growth,isolation, quantification and generation of recombinant RSV virus to proceduresfor the efficient characterization of the host immune response to RSVinfection. These techniques are used in numerous laboratories around the worldand are the building blocks that support the majority of RSV virus resea...
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    155,65 €

  • Antimicrobial Drug Resistance
    The two volumes included in Antimicrobial Drug Resistance, Second Edition is an updated, comprehensive and multidisciplinary reference covering the area of antimicrobial drug resistance in bacteria, fungi, viruses, and parasites from basic science, clinical, and epidemiological perspectives. This newly revised compendium reviews the most current research and development on drug...
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    496,91 €

  • Autophagy Networks in Inflammation
    Autophagy principally serves an adaptive function to protect organisms against diverse human pathologies, including cancer and neurodegeneration. Recent developments using in vitro, ex vivo and in vivo models show the involvement of the autophagy pathway in immunity and inflammation. Moreover, direct interactions between autophagy proteins and immune signalling molecules have a...
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    210,48 €