Dengue
By: edited by Scott B. Halstead.
Contributors: Halstead, Scott B.
Series: Tropical medicine : science and practice -- v. 5; Tropical medicine -- v. 5.
Publisher: Imperial College Press; Distributed by World Scientific Pub.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London; Hackensack, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 485
ISBN-13: 9781848162280
Subjects: Dengue; Dengue viruses; Dengue; Dengue Virus -- pathogenicity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Dengue: overview and history  -- Scott B. Halstead; title: The infectious agent  -- David W. C. Beasley and Alan D. T. Barrett; title: Epidemiology  -- Scott B. Halstead; title: Resistance to infection  -- David W. Vaughn, LTC John M. Scherer, and Wellington Sun; title: Clinical features of dengue  -- Jeremy Farrar; title: Management of dengue  -- Bridget Wills; title: Pathogenesis: risk factors prior to infection  -- Scott B. Halstead; title: Elimination of infection  -- Alan L. Rothman and Francis A. Ennis; title: Pathophysiology  -- Scott B. Halstead; title: Diagnosis of dengue virus infections  -- Timothy P. Endy, Ananda Nisalak, and David W. Vaughn; title: The control of dengue vectors -- Norman G. Gratz and Scott B. Halstead; title: Biological control of dengue vectors: promises from the past  -- Brian H. Kay; title: Mosquito control: behavioral and community interventions  -- Peter Winch, Elli Leontsini, and Linda S. Lloyd; title: Controversies -- Jose Rigau-Perez, Scott B. Halstead, and David M. Morens.