Outbreak investigations around the world
Subtitle: case studies in infectious diesease field epidemiology
By: editor, Mark S. Dworkin.
Contributors: Dworkin, Mark S.
Publisher: Jones and Bartlett Publishers
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Sudbury, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9780763751432
Subjects: Epidemiology -- Case studies; Disease Outbreaks -- Personal Narratives; Epidemiologic Methods -- Personal Narratives
Genres: Case studies.; Personal Narratives.
Description: Accounts of field investigations, with much related personal information, written by scientists working in the field of epidemiology.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: How an outbreak is investigated / Mark S. Dworkin; title: Leptospirosis at the bubbles / Kenrad E. Nelson; title: Cholera for a dime / Paul A. Blake; title: Legionnaire's disease : investigation of an outbreak of a new disease / Steven Thacker; title: The investigation of toxic shock syndrome in Wisconsin, 1979-1980 and beyond / Jeffrey P. Davis; title: The early days of AIDS in the United States : a personal perspective / Harold W. Jaffe; title: Verify the diagnosis : a pseudo-outbreak of amebiasis in Los Angeles County / Frank Sorvillo; title: Measles among religiously exempt persons / Charles E. Jennings; title: An outbreak of fulminant hepatitis B in a medical ward in Israel / Ronald C. Hershow; title: What went wrong? An ancient recipe associated with botulism in modern Egypt / J. Todd Weber; title: Controlling an outbreak of shigellosis with a community-wide intervention in Lexington County, Kentucky / Janet Mohle-Boetani; title: Pork tapeworm in an orthodox Jewish community : arriving at a biologically plausible hypothesis / Peter Schantz, Mary Bartlett; title: The massive waterborne outbreak of cryptosporidium infections, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1993 / Jeffrey P. Davis; title: A community outbreak of hepatitis a involving cooperation between public health, the media, and law enforcement in Iowa, 1997 / Patricia Quinlisk ... [et al.]; title: Tracking a syphilis outbreak through cyberspace / Jeffrey D. Klausner; title: Eschar : the story of the New York City department of health 2001 anthrax investigation / Don Weiss, Marci Layton; title: Ebola hemorrhagic fever in Gabon : chaos to control / Daniel G. Bausch; title: Whipping whooping cough in Rock Island County, Illinois / Mark S. Dworkin; title: Emergency yellow fever mass vaccination in post-civil war Liberia / Gregory Huhn; title: A mumps epidemic : Iowa, 2006 / Patricia Quinlisk.