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Global Infectious Diseases

Prevention, Control, and Eradication

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  • © 1992

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Editors:
  1. David H. Walker

    1. Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, USA

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIII
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  2. Infectious Diseases in Developing Countries: An Introduction to the Major Problems in Global Medicine

    • David H. Walker, Frederick A. Murphy
    Pages 1-3

  3. The Challenge: Biotechnology Transfer to Public Health. Examples from Arbovirology

    • Thomas P. Monath
    Pages 5-30

  4. AIDS: The Uses and Limitations of Science

    • June E. Osborn
    Pages 31-48

  5. Strategies for Control of Viral Hepatitis in the Age of Molecular Biology

    • Stanley M. Lemon, Daniel S. Shapiro
    Pages 49-73

  6. Rickettsial Diseases: From Epidemiology to Molecular Biology, The Pathway Toward Disease Control

    • David H. Walker
    Pages 75-86

  7. Diarrheal Diseases: New Challenges and Emerging Opportunities

    • Richard L. Guerrant
    Pages 87-102

  8. Prospects for Control of Malaria in the Twenty-First Century

    • Carter L. Diggs
    Pages 103-127

  9. Black Fungi: A Model for Understanding Tropical Mycosis

    • Michael R. McGinnis
    Pages 129-149

  10. Schistosomiasis — From Genes to Latrines

    • Franz von Lichtenberg
    Pages 151-165

  11. Filariasis: Present Status and Future Challenges

    • Eric A. Ottesen
    Pages 167-180

  12. Current Issues in Cysticercosis: Proteins, Proglottids, Pigs, and Privies

    • Ralph T. Bryan
    Pages 181-203

  13. Antigenic Variation in Borrelial Diseases of Humans

    • Alan G. Barbour
    Pages 205-217

  14. Perspectives on Chagas Disease in Latin America and the United States

    • Louis V. Kirchhoff
    Pages 219-226

  15. Strategies for the Twenty-First Century — Control or Eradication?

    • D. A. Henderson
    Pages 227-234

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 235-239
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About this book

Introducing a book on global infectious diseases is a daunting challenge. Modern developments in molecular research, newly available opportuni­ ties for earth-orbiting, satellite-based surveillance as a means of predicting certain regional epidemics, and the introduction of remarkable new anti­ biotics which can cure some awesome problems such as river-blindness would each have astonished even the most jaded reader only a few decades ago. Just the same, even with these laudable advances, malaria is still with us and both poliomyelitis and tuberculosis are growing worldwide problems. As a holdover from my own medical school days, I must confess to an affection for the older term of "tropical medicine" and its historic context, in preference to the more popular present name which is the title of this book. A century or two ago the motives to study tropical medicine were obvious: nations having enormous amounts of maritime trade with distant lands established colonial empires where health in the colonies was a con­ cern for both the natives and the colonists. It is unsurprising that the great institutes for such studies sprang up in London, Amsterdam, Hamburg, New York and New Orleans, but few of these centers and other similar ones have continued to flourish or even to survive, perhaps because the days of empires have gone.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, USA

    David H. Walker

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Global Infectious Diseases

  • Book Subtitle: Prevention, Control, and Eradication

  • Editors: David H. Walker

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-3449-8

  • Publisher: Springer Vienna

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1992

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-211-82329-3Published: 19 May 1992

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-7091-3449-8Published: 17 April 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 240

  • Number of Illustrations: 33 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Internal Medicine, Medical Microbiology, Virology

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