Global infectious diseases
Subtitle: prevention, control, and eradication
By: David H. Walker (ed.)
Contributors: Walker, David H., 1943-
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Wien ; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
Subjects: Communicable diseases; Communicable diseases -- Prevention
Notes: Includes bibliographical references
Table of contents: Infectious diseases in developing countries: an introduction to the major problems in global medicine / D.H. Walker, F.A. Murphy; The challenge: biotechnology transfer to public health, examples from arbovirology / T.P. Monath; AIDS: the uses and limitations of science / J.E. Osborn; Strategies for control of viral hepatitis in the age of molecular biology / S.M. Lemon, D.S. Shapiro; Rickettsial diseases: from epidemiology to molecular biology. The pathway toward disease control / D.H. Walker; Diarrheal diseases: new challenges and emerging opportunities / R.L. Guerrant; Prospects for control of malaria in the twenty-first century / C.L. Diggs; Black fungi: a model for understanding tropical mycoses / M.R. McGinnis; Schistosomiasis: from genes to latrines / F. Lichtenberg; Filariasis: present status and future challenges / E.A. Ottesen; Current issues in cysticercosis: proteins, proglottids, pigs, and privies / R.T. Bryan; Antigenic variation in Borrelial diseases of humans / A.G. Barbour; (cont) Perspectives on Chagas' Disease in Latin America and the United States / L.V. Kirchhoff; Strategies for the twenty-first century: control or eradication? / D.A. Henderson