Infectious Diseases

A Geographic Guide

By: Eskild Petersen (Editor), Patricia Schlagenhauf-Lawlor (Editor), Lin Hwei Chen (Editor)

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eText | 21 February 2017 | Edition Number 2

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The second edition of this concise and practical guide describes infections in geographical areas and provides information on disease risk, concomitant infections (such as co-prevalence of HIV and tuberculosis) and emerging bacterial, viral and parasitic infections in a given geographical area of the world.

Geographic approach means that it's the only book to guide the health care worker towards a diagnosis based on the location of symptoms and travel history by encouraging the question "where have you been?"
New content covering MERS, Ebola, Zika, and infections transmitted during air and maritime travel
Covers the major infectious disease outbreaks framed in their geographic setting such as H7N9 "bird flu" influenza, H1N1, Ebola, and Zika
Outstanding international editor team with vast experience on various international infectious disease and as journal editors and key leaders in infection surveillance

Industry Reviews

"This is the second edition of the only book that currently approaches patients based on geography and type and duration of symptoms. It presents the information in an easy-to-read format and has many tables dividing the diseases into common, less common, and rare. This is a welcome update that covers several emerging diseases such as MERS and Zika viral infections and includes two new chapters describing infections acquired during sea and air travel" Winnie Ooi, MD, MPH, DMD, Harvard Medical School on belahlf of Doody's