Infectious disease specialists
Subtitle: hunting down disease
By: Edward Willett
Series: Extreme science careers; Extreme science careers
Publisher: Enslow Publishing
Published: 2016
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780766069701
Subjects: Communicable diseases; Juvenile literature; Vocational guidance; Epidemiology; Epdemiologists; Public health; Epidemics; Diseases
Description: Through interviews and case studies, learn what it's like to be an infectious disease specialist and discover the role they play in modern medicine.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page 124) and index.
Table of contents: title: Investigating disease; title: Marta Guerra : battling Ebola; title: James Strong : science in a space suit; title: Laurie Richardson : stalking the coral killer; title: Jonathan Runstadler : the biology of bird flu; title: Lisa Fernando : an outbreak of Marburg; title: Jonathan Epstein : seeking the source of SARS.