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Recent Advances in Toxoplasmosis Research

Parasites and Parasitic Diseases, Infectious Disease and Microbiology, Medicine and Health
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Toxoplasmosis is one of the most important foodborne illnesses and fetal maternal inflammatory syndromes. Currently, there is no safe and effective approved therapy against fetal maternal complications or persistent chronic infections. Toxoplasma is an intracellular organism. About 1.5 billion people worldwide are predicted to have toxoplasmosis, frequently with unknown lifelong health consequences. Toxoplasma is classified…
Leprosy: Epidemiology, Treatment Strategies and Current Challenges in Research

Infectious Disease and Microbiology, Medicine and Health
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Leprosy is a chronic granulomatous infectious disease that affects the skin and peripheral nerves; its causative agent is the obligate intracellular bacillus Mycobacterium leprae. The etiological diagnosis of the disease in its paucibacillary (PB) form still needs to be improved, because the bacillus is not yet cultivable. This book discusses the current challenges in the…
Rotavirus Infections: Epidemiology, Clinical Characteristics and Treatment Options

Infectious Disease and Microbiology, Medicine and Health
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Rotavirus infections are a common cause of acute gastroenteritis in children, which can cause severe dehydration and even death. There are many publications on extraintestinal manifestations that have been associated with rotavirus infection. It has been associated with neurological manifestations as afebrile seizures, convulsive status, cerebellitis, encephalitis or encephalopathy, digestive manifestations as pancreatitis and even…
Eosinophilia: Causes, Symptoms and Treatment Options

Digestive Diseases - Research and Clinical Developments, Parasitology, Infectious Disease and Microbiology, Medicine and Health
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Eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) is a chronic inflammatory condition characterized clinically by symptoms of esophageal dysfunction and histologically by dense eosinophilic infiltration. Its pathogenesis involves an immune-mediated response to environmental antigenic stimulation. The incidence and prevalence are increasing and EoE has become the most common cause of dysphagia and food impaction in adults. Its management often…
Influenza and RNA Viruses: Emergence, Classification and Management

Virology Research Progress, Infectious Disease and Microbiology, Medicine and Health
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In the spring of 2013, the influenza A (H7N9) virus shocked China, and caused 134 human infections with 45 deaths in its first influenza season. In the 2013-2014 winter, the virus struck China again and caused 273 cases with 108 deaths. This H7N9 outbreak has raised concern for another influenza pandemic. In this book, the…
Mediastinal Infections: Clinical Diagnosis, Surgical and Alternative Treatments

Infectious Disease and Microbiology, Medicine and Health
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The way mediastinal infections are developed is still a therapeutic challenge for physicians and surgeons around the globe. The purpose of this book is to clarify infection origins and pathways of spread to the mediastinum, and how the septic process perpetuates under different circumstances with up to date evidence based on diagnostic criteria and management…
Advances in Health and Disease. Volume 11

Advances in Health and Disease (Numbered Series), Infectious Disease and Microbiology, Medicine and Health
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The aim of the opening chapter of Advances in Health and Disease. Volume 11 is to provide evidence on the indicators of fluid distribution and cellular integrity evaluated by nioelectrical impedance analysis in athletes of different performance levels and non-athletes. The second chapter presents a specific examination of the aryl hydrocarbon receptor among xenobiotic receptors,…
Campylobacter Infections: Epidemiology, Clinical Management and Prevention

Infectious Disease and Microbiology, Medicine and Health
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Campylobacter jejuni is the leading cause of bacterial enteritis in the world and this zoonotic disease is principally transmitted by food and water. Campylobacter infections are characterized by several symptoms such as watery/bloody diarrhea, abdominal pain, fever, headache, nausea and vomiting which may persist for few days. Medical treatment may be conventional, often symptomatic, sometimes…
Ebola: Essentials, Response Efforts and Prevention Issues

Virology Research Progress, Infectious Disease and Microbiology, Medicine and Health
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The Ebola virus is named after the Ebola River, near where the virus was discovered in 1976 in Zaire, now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). It is in the filovirus family, so called because of its filamentous shape. EVD is also known as Ebola hemorrhagic fever. The disease sometimes causes hemorrhage…
Human Lyme Neuroborreliosis

Public Health in the 21st Century, Infectious Disease and Microbiology, Medicine and Health
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Lyme neuroborreliosis is a disorder of immense magnitude and importance. This volume on Lyme neuroborreliosis, authored by David S. Younger provides up-to-date insight into the history, epidemiology, experimental animal models, blood brain barrier, clinical, serological and treatment aspects of this disorder in children and adults. This scholarly work on Lyme neuroborreliosis should appeal to neurologists,…
Super-Spreading in Infectious Diseases

Microbiology Research Advances, Infectious Disease and Microbiology, Medicine and Health
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As one of the biological factors that most powerfully impacted history, infectious diseases continue to be a leading cause of global morbidity and mortality. At least two major factors are making infectious diseases assume more important roles than ever before. One of these is the increasing ability of certain microorganisms, normally limited to other species,…
Listeriosis Outbreaks: Symptoms, Risk Factors and Treatment

Bacteriology Research Developments, Upcoming Publications, Infectious Disease and Microbiology, Medicine and Health
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Listeria monocytogenes is a foodborne pathogen transmitted to humans through ingested food. This bacterium is responsible for human listeriosis, an extremely serious infection with a high mortality rate. In Listeriosis Outbreaks: Symptoms, Risk Factors and Treatment, the authors study the symptoms, risk factors and treatment of human listeriosis. L. monocytogenes is more deadly than other…
Current Status of Proinflammatory Cytokines in Periodontal Disease and During Periodontal Therapy

New Developments in Medical Research, Infectious Disease and Microbiology, Medicine and Health
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Periodontal diseases are chronic infectious diseases characterized by a destructive inflammatory process affecting the supporting tissues of the tooth. Numerous bacterial species have been isolated from subgingival plaque, which are closely associated with disease onset and progression. At the same time, there is strong evidence that destructive processes occurring as part of the host inflammatory…
Endophthalmitis

Eye and Vision Research Developments, Infectious Disease and Microbiology, Medicine and Health
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Endophthalmitis refers to the inflammation of the intraocular tissues and fluids of the eye and can be non-infectious or caused by bacterial, fungal or parasitic infection. It can be classified as exogenous (post-operative, post-traumatic or as a complication of a corneal ulcer) or endogenous (secondary to hematogenous spread from another infected site). This book discusses…
Chronic Diseases: The Escalating Dilemma in Developing Countries

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The World Health Organization expects deaths from non-communicable diseases to rise by 15% between 2010 and 2020, with jumps of over 20% in Africa and South-East Asia. For example, the number of people in the developing world with diabetes will increase by more than 2.5-fold, from 84 million in 1995 to 228 million in 2025.…
Advances in Health and Disease. Volume 10

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The objective of the first chapter is to explain fertility preservation decisions as related to reproductive-aged cancer patients’ experiences and desires for future fertility. The second chapter discusses fertility preservation and how it can be used to help cancer patients retain their fertility. It is an emerging discipline that now plays a central role in…
Superbugs – Clostridium Difficile and Klebsiella Pneumoniae: Recognition, Prevention and Treatment

Infectious Disease and Microbiology, Medicine and Health
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The first section of this book discusses Clostridium difficile Infections (CDI). There is no consensus on the definition of severe CDI, since it varies depending on the authors or clinical practice guidelines consulted. Severe CDI can be defined as an episode of CDI with one or more specific signs and symptoms of severe colitis or…
African Trypanosomiasis: Clinical Symptoms, Diagnosis and Treatment

Parasites and Parasitic Diseases, Parasitology, Infectious Disease and Microbiology, Medicine and Health
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Human African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness is caused by infection with the morphologically indistinguishable subspecies Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense (in East and Southern Africa) and Trypanosoma brucei gambiense (in West and Central Africa). The disease is presently almost under control and less than 4000 cases are currently reported. In both, T. b. rhodesiense and T. b.…
Measles: Epidemiology and Control of Measles in the Gweru Urban District in Zimbabwe

Public Health: Practices, Methods and Policies, Infectious Disease and Microbiology, Medicine and Health
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Measles is a disease of public health importance that is associated with high morbidity and mortality particularly in developing countries. In recent years widespread application of measles vaccine among children has led to decline in morbidity and mortality attributed to measles. In the city of Gweru in Zimbabwe operations research was carried on the epidemiology…
E. coli Infections: Causes, Treatment and Prevention

Public Health in the 21st Century, Bacteriology Research Developments, Infectious Disease and Microbiology, Medicine and Health
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This new book presents topical research in the study of E. coli infections, including urinary tract infections caused by E. coli; aptamer-based detection and therapeutics to prevent and treat E. coli infections; Lactoferrin as a novel natural host defense protein; enterotoxigenic escherichia coli colonization factors and the prevention of E. coli using organic acids. (Imprint:…
Air Travel and Communicable Diseases: U.S. Preparedness, Planning and Challenges

Public Health in the 21st Century, Infectious Disease and Microbiology, Medicine and Health
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Past communicable diseases, such as the recent Ebola epidemic, have resulted in many deaths and highlight the potential economic cost of disruptions to air travel and the U.S. and global economies. This book examines the extent to which selected U.S. airports and airlines have plans for responding to communicable disease threats from abroad and to…
The Zika Virus: Background, Issues, and U.S. Response Considerations

Virology Research Progress, Infectious Disease and Microbiology, Medicine and Health
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In late 2015, health officials in Brazil recognized a marked increase in the number of infants born with microcephaly (from Greek, meaning “small head”), a birth defect that may accompany significant, permanent brain damage. Although not conclusive, the increase in microcephaly is suspected to be related to the emergence of Zika virus infections in Brazil…
Zika Virus Disease: Prevention and Cure

Virology Research Progress, Infectious Disease and Microbiology, Medicine and Health
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The author was motivated to write this important book because currently there is no systematically-written document on the ZIKV disease, which could serve at this crucial moment as a textbook for medical students, physicians, nurses, and other healthcare providers as well as a reference book for basic researchers, professors, and the general public. The original…
Zika Virus Surveillance, Vaccinology, and Anti-Zika Drug Discovery: Computer-Assisted Strategies to Combat the Menace

Virology Research Progress, Parasitology
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The bubonic plague, smallpox, HIV/AIDS, malaria, and influenza are some of the worst epidemics/pandemics that afflicted human beings from antiquity to modern times, killing millions of people. The mosquito-borne human-infecting viruses, rotavirus, and the seasonal influenza regularly affect lives across continents in the millions. Currently, we are facing various disease-inducing organisms of the Flavivirus family…

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