Imported infectious diseases : the impact in developed countries /
Fernando Cobo
- xix, 277 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Woodhead Publishing series in biomedicine ; 66 .
- Woodhead Publishing series in biomedicine ; 66 .
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction -- Epidemiology of infectious diseases in immigrants -- Surveillance systems for tropical infectious diseases in developed countries -- Febrile syndrome in immigrants and travellers -- Diarrhoea syndrome -- Current status of malaria -- Filariasis -- Schistosomiasis (bilharziasis) -- Strongyloidiasis -- Trypanosomiasis -- Taeniasis and neurocysticerosis -- HIV infection -- Syphilis -- Tuberculosis: the problem of multiresistance -- Viral hepatitis -- Leishmaniasis -- Viral haemorrhagic fevers -- Anthropod-borne viruses affecting the central nervous system -- Prophylaxis, immunisation and vaccination
9781907568572 1907568573
2014938532
Communicable diseases--Transmission Immigrants--Diseases Emigration and immigration--Health aspects Communicable Diseases--epidemiology Developed Countries Emigrants and Immigrants