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The essential guide to controlling and managing today's communicable diseases
 
The fourth edition of Communicable Disease Control and Health Protection Handbook offers public health workers of all kinds an authoritative and up-to-date guide to current protocols surrounding the identification and control of infectious diseases. With its concise, accessible design, the book is a practical tool that can be relied upon to explain topics ranging from the basic principles of communicable disease control to recent changes and innovations in health protection practice. Major syndromes and individual infections are insightfully addressed, while the authors also outline the WHO's international health regulations and the organizational arrangements in place in all EU nations.
 
New to the fourth edition are chapters on Ebola, the Zika virus, and other emerging pandemics. In addition, new writing on healthcare-associated infection, migrant and refugee health, and the importance of preparedness make this an essential and relevant text for all those in the field. This vital resource:
* Reflects recent developments in the science and administration of health protection practice
* Covers topics such as major syndromes, control of individual infections, main services and activities, arrangements for all European countries, and much more
* Includes new chapters on the Zika virus, Schistosomiasis, Coronavirus including MERS + SARS, and Ebola
* Follows a format designed for ease of use and everyday consultation
 
Created to provide public and environmental health practitioners, physicians, epidemiologists, infection control nurses, microbiologists and trainees with a straightforward - yet informative - resource, Communicable Disease Control and Health Protection Handbook is a practical companion for all those working the field today.

List of contents

About the authors ix
 
Foreword xi
 
Abbreviations xiii
 
Section 1: Introduction
 
1.1 How to use this book 3
 
1.2 Basic concepts in the epidemiology of infectious disease 5
 
1.3 Basic concepts in the prevention of infection 8
 
1.4 Emergency risk communication 13
 
1.5 Health protection on-call 15
 
Section 2: Common topics
 
2.1 Meningitis and meningism 23
 
2.2 Gastrointestinal infection 26
 
2.3 Community acquired pneumonia 33
 
2.4 Rash in pregnancy 37
 
2.5 Rash and fever in children 39
 
2.6 Illness in returning travellers 41
 
2.7 Jaundice 43
 
2.8 Infection in the immunocompromised 44
 
Section 3: Diseases
 
3.1 Amoebic dysentery 51
 
3.2 Anthrax 52
 
3.3 Bacillus cereus 55
 
3.4 Botulism 57
 
3.5 Brucellosis 61
 
3.6 Campylobacter 63
 
3.7 Chickenpox and shingles (varicella-zoster infections) 67
 
3.8 Chikungunya 69
 
3.9 Chlamydia pneumoniae 71
 
3.10 Chlamydia trachomatis 72
 
3.11 Cholera 75
 
3.12 CJD and other human transmissible spongiform encephalopathies 77
 
3.13 Clostridium difficile 79
 
3.14 Clostridium perfringens 82
 
3.15 Coronavirus (including MERS and SARS) 84
 
3.16 Cryptosporidiosis 87
 
3.17 Cyclosporiasis 92
 
3.18 Cytomegalovirus 93
 
3.19 Dengue fever 94
 
3.20 Diphtheria 96
 
3.21 Enterococci,including Glycopeptide- Resistant Enterococci (GRE) 98
 
3.22 Enterovirus infections (including hand, foot and mouth disease) 100
 
3.23 Epstein- Barr Virus 103
 
3.24 Giardiasis, 104
 
3.25 Gram-negative bacteraemia (including carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae) 106
 
3.26 Gonorrhoea, syphilis and other acute STIs 111
 
3.27 Hantavirus infection 118
 
3.28 Head lice 119
 
3.29 Helicobacter pylori 121
 
3.30 Hepatitis A 122
 
3.31 Hepatitis B 126
 
3.32 Hepatitis C 129
 
3.33 Hepatitis, delta 132
 
3.34 Hepatitis E 132
 
3.35 Herpes simplex 134
 
3.36 Haemophilus influenza type b (Hib) 136
 
3.37 HIV 138
 
3.38 Influenza 143
 
3.39 Japanese B encephalitis 149
 
3.40 Legionellosis 149
 
3.41 Leprosy 152
 
3.42 Leptospirosis 153
 
3.43 Listeriosis 155
 
3.44 Lyme disease 158
 
3.45 Malaria 160
 
3.46 Measles 162
 
3.47 Meningococcal infection 165
 
3.48 MRSA (Meticillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus) 169
 
3.49 Mumps 173
 
3.50 Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection 174
 
3.51 Norovirus 175
 
3.52 Paratyphoid fever 179
 
3.53 Parvovirus B19 (fifth disease) 181
 
3.54 Plague 183
 
3.55 Pneumococcal infection 185
 
3.56 Poliomyelitis 188
 
3.57 Psittacosis 190
 
3.58 Q fever 192
 
3.59 Rabies 195
 
3.60 Relapsing fever 196
 
3.61 Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) 197
 
3.62 Ringworm 200
 
3.63 Rotavirus 204
 
3.64 Rubella 205
 
3.65 Salmonellosis 207
 
3.66 Scabies 211
 
3.67 Schistosomiasis 215
 
3.68 Shigellosis 216
 
3.69 Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) and other diarrhoeagenic E. coli 220
 
3.70 Smallpox 227
 
3.71 Staphylococcal food poisoning 229
 
3.72 Streptococcal infections 230
 
3.73 Tetanus 233
 
3.74 Threadworms 235
 
3.75 Tick- borne Encephalitis 236
 
3.76 Toxocar

About the author

Jeremy Hawker Consultant Epidemiologist, Field Service, National Infection Service, Public Health England; Honorary Professor, Universities of Liverpool, Warwick, and Staffordshire, UK. Norman Begg Independent Vaccine Consultant; formerly GlaxoSmithKline Vaccines, Wavre, Belgium. Ralf Reintjes Professor, Epidemiology and Public Health Surveillance, Hamburg, Germany; Adjunct Professor, Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Tampere, Finland. Karl Ekdahl Head, Public Health Capacity and Communication Unit, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden. Obaghe Edeghere Consultant Epidemiologist, Field Service, National Infection Service, Public Health England, UK. Jim van Steenbergen Independent Consultant; formerly Coordinator Communicable Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands.

Summary

The essential guide to controlling and managing today's communicable diseases

The fourth edition of Communicable Disease Control and Health Protection Handbook offers public health workers of all kinds an authoritative and up-to-date guide to current protocols surrounding the identification and control of infectious diseases. With its concise, accessible design, the book is a practical tool that can be relied upon to explain topics ranging from the basic principles of communicable disease control to recent changes and innovations in health protection practice. Major syndromes and individual infections are insightfully addressed, while the authors also outline the WHO's international health regulations and the organizational arrangements in place in all EU nations.

New to the fourth edition are chapters on Ebola, the Zika virus, and other emerging pandemics. In addition, new writing on healthcare-associated infection, migrant and refugee health, and the importance of preparedness make this an essential and relevant text for all those in the field. This vital resource:
* Reflects recent developments in the science and administration of health protection practice
* Covers topics such as major syndromes, control of individual infections, main services and activities, arrangements for all European countries, and much more
* Includes new chapters on the Zika virus, Schistosomiasis, Coronavirus including MERS + SARS, and Ebola
* Follows a format designed for ease of use and everyday consultation

Created to provide public and environmental health practitioners, physicians, epidemiologists, infection control nurses, microbiologists and trainees with a straightforward - yet informative - resource, Communicable Disease Control and Health Protection Handbook is a practical companion for all those working the field today.

Product details

• Authors: Norma Begg, Norman Begg, Begg Norman, Obaghe Edeghere, Karl Ekdahl, Ekdahl Karl, J Hawker, Jerem Hawker, Jeremy Hawker, Jeremy (Universities of Liverpool Hawker, Jeremy Begg Hawker, Hawker Jeremy, Ralf Reintjes, Ralf et al Reintjes, Reintjes Ralf, Jim E van Steenbergen, Jim E. van Steenbergen
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2019
• EAN: 9781119328049
• ISBN: 978-1-119-32804-9
• No. of pages: 480
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Medizin, Infektionskrankheiten, Infektionskrankheit, infectious disease, Medical Science