Overview
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Vitali Sintchenko
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Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
- Recent breakthroughs in rapid, high-throughput molecular profiling of pathogenic microorganisms
- Focus bioinformatics enabled approaches to pathogen detection, investigation and management of infections
- New methods of analyzing genetic and geographic data of pathogens to reconstruct evolution and identify migration routes where strains spread
- Fills gap in bioinformatics aspects of infectious diseases and complements bioinformatics texts devoted to the mainstream of human genetics and cancer
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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- Elena P. Ivanova, Arkadiy Kurilenko, Feng Wang, Russell J. Crawford
Pages 73-91
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- Riet De Smet, Karen Lemmens, Ana Carolina Fierro, Kathleen Marchal
Pages 93-122
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- Stephen Anthony, Vitali Sintchenko, Enrico Coiera
Pages 149-165
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- Caroline O. Buckee, Sunetra Gupta
Pages 167-185
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- Matthew N. Davies, Darren R. Flower
Pages 187-202
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- Claudio Donati, Duccio Medini, Rino Rappuoli
Pages 203-221
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- Tobias Cohen, Lenny Moise, William Martin, Anne S. De Groot
Pages 223-244
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- Jonathan R Iredell, Sally R. Partridge
Pages 245-261
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- Jaron Schaeffer, Afra Held, Guy Tsafnat
Pages 263-278
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- Lyn-Marie Birkholtz, Peter Burger, Samia Aci, Hélène Valadié, Ana Lucia da Costa, Loraine Brillet et al.
Pages 279-304
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- Lindsay Grey Cowell, Barry Smith
Pages 373-395
About this book
There are several reasons to be interested in infectious disease informatics. First, it is of practical significance to understand how the technology revolution has been reshaping infectious disease research and management, as rapid advances in geno- associated technologies have changed the very nature of the questions we can ask. Second, the emerging evidence has confirmed that the application of information technologies in healthcare enhances our ability to deal with infectious diseases. Finally, the implementation of electronic health records has created new and exciting opportunities for secure, reliable and ethically sound clinical decision support and biosurveillance guided by the genomics of pathogens with epidemic potential. This volume addresses the growing need for the critical overview of recent developments in microbial genomics and biomedical informatics relevant to the control of infectious diseases. This field is rapidly expanding, and attracts a wide audience of clinicians, public health professionals, biomedical researchers and computer scientists who are fascinated by the complex puzzle of infectious disease. This book takes a multidisciplinary approach with a calculated move away from the traditional health informatics topics of computerized protocols for antibiotic p- scribing and pathology testing. Instead authors invite you to explore the emerging frontiers of bioinformatics-guided pathogen profiling, the system microbiolo- enabled intelligent design of new drugs and vaccines, and new ways of real-time biosurveillance and hospital infection control. Throughout the book, references are made to different products supplied by public sources and commercial vendors, but this is not an endorsement of these products or vendors.
Editors and Affiliations
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Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Vitali Sintchenko
About the editor
Vitali Sintchenko (MBBS, PhD, FRCPA, FACHI) is a clinical microbiologist and informatician with the Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Australia.
