Outbreak investigations around the world : case studies in infectious diesease field epidemiology /
Dworkin, Mark S.
Boston, Mass. ; London : Jones and Bartlett Publishers,
c2010.
Accounts of field investigations, with much related personal information, written by scientists working in the field of epidemiology.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
How an outbreak is investigated / Mark S. Dworkin -- Leptospirosis at the bubbles / Kenrad E. Nelson -- Cholera for a dime / Paul A. Blake -- Legionnaire's disease : investigation of an outbreak of a new disease / Steven Thacker -- The investigation of toxic shock syndrome in Wisconsin, 1979-1980 and beyond / Jeffrey P. Davis -- The early days of AIDS in the United States : a personal perspective / Harold W. Jaffe -- Verify the diagnosis : a pseudo-outbreak of amebiasis in Los Angeles County / Frank Sorvillo -- Measles among religiously exempt persons / Charles E. Jennings -- An outbreak of fulminant hepatitis B in a medical ward in Israel / Ronald C. Hershow -- What went wrong? An ancient recipe associated with botulism in modern Egypt / J. Todd Weber -- Controlling an outbreak of shigellosis with a community-wide intervention in Lexington County, Kentucky / Janet Mohle-Boetani -- -
Pork tapeworm in an orthodox Jewish community : arriving at a biologically plausible hypothesis / Peter Schantz, Mary Bartlett -- The massive waterborne outbreak of cryptosporidium infections, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1993 / Jeffrey P. Davis -- A community outbreak of hepatitis a involving cooperation between public health, the media, and law enforcement in Iowa, 1997 / Patricia Quinlisk ... [et al.] -- Tracking a syphilis outbreak through cyberspace / Jeffrey D. Klausner -- Eschar : the story of the New York City department of health 2001 anthrax investigation / Don Weiss, Marci Layton -- Ebola hemorrhagic fever in Gabon : chaos to control / Daniel G. Bausch -- Whipping whooping cough in Rock Island County, Illinois / Mark S. Dworkin -- Emergency yellow fever mass vaccination in post-civil war Liberia / Gregory Huhn -- A mumps epidemic : Iowa, 2006 / Patricia Quinlisk.
Accounts of field investigations, with much related personal information, written by scientists working in the field of epidemiology.
Epidemiology