Outbreak investigations around the world : case studies in infectious diesease field epidemiology / editor, Mark S. Dworkin.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Sudbury, Mass. : Jones and Bartlett Publishers, [2010], ©2010.
Description
xxiii, 456 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

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    Subject(s)
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Ch. 1. How an Outbreak is Investigated / Mark S. Dworkin
    • Ch. 2. Leptospirosis at the Bubbles / Kenrad E. Nelson
    • Ch. 3. Cholera for a Dime / Paul A. Blake
    • Ch. 4. Legionnaires' Disease: Investigation of an Outbreak of a New Disease / Steven B. Thacker
    • Ch. 5. The Investigation of Toxic Shock Syndrome in Wisconsin, 1979-1980 and Beyond / Jeffrey P. Davis
    • Ch. 6. The Early Days of AIDS in the United States: A Personal Perspective / Harold W. Jaffe
    • Ch. 7. Verify the Diagnosis: A Pseudo-outbreak of Amebiasis in Los Angeles County / Frank Sorvillo
    • Ch. 8. Measles Among Religiously Exempt Persons / Charles E. Jennings
    • Ch. 9. An Outbreak of Fulminant Hepatitis B in a Medical Ward in Israel / Ronald C. Hershow
    • Ch. 10. What Went Wrong? An Ancient Recipe Associated with Botulism in Modern Egypt / J. Todd Weber
    • Ch. 11. Controlling an Outbreak of Shigellosis with a Community-Wide Intervention in Lexington, Kentucky / Janet Mohle-Boetani
    • Ch. 12. Pork Tapeworm in an Orthodox Jewish Community: Arriving at a Biologically Plausible Hypothesis / Peter M. Schantz and Mary E. Bartlett
    • Ch. 13. The Massive Waterborne Outbreak of Cryptosporidium Infections, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1993 / Jeffrey P. Davis
    • Ch. 14. A Community Outbreak of Hepatitis A Involving Cooperation Between Public Health, the Media, and Law Enforcement, Iowa, 1997 / Patricia Quinlisk, Yuan J. F. Hutin, Ken W. Carter, Thomas M. Carney and Kevin Teale
    • Ch. 15. Tracking a Syphilis Outbreak Through Cyberspace / Jeffrey D. Klausner
    • Ch. 16. Eschar: The Story of the New York City Department of Health 2001 Anthrax Investigation / Don Weiss and Marci Layton
    • Ch. 17. Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever in Gabon: Chaos to Control / Daniel G. Bausch
    • Ch. 18. Whipping Whooping Cough in Rock Island County, Illinois / Mark S. Dworkin
    • Ch. 19. Emergency Yellow Fever Mass Vaccination in Post-Civil War Liberia / Gregory Huhn
    • Ch. 20. A Mumps Epidemic - Iowa, 2006 / Patricia Quinlisk.
    ISBN
    • 9780763751432 (pbk.)
    • 076375143X (pbk.)
    LCCN
    2008051156
    OCLC
    276668840
    RCP
    C - S
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