Infectious Diseases. A Clinical Short Course

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FREDERICK S.SOUTHWICK 2007 Time and Newsweek magazines have heralded the “End of the Antibiotic Era”. Echoing the concerns of many infectious disease and health policy experts, The Chicago Tribune’s feature on “Unhealthy Hospitals” warns that the “overuse of antibiotics are spawning drug-resistant germs that are spreading from hospitals into the community at unprecedented rates”.

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Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Heat Shock Proteins in Infectious Disease

Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Heat Shock Proteins in Infectious Disease-1

Edited by A. Graham Pockley M. Gabriella Santoro 2010 All cellular organisms maintain the ability to mount a heat shock response (HSR) when exposed to elevated temperatures. The HSR is a complex cellular response, although its major essence is the induction by heat shock of several cohorts of proteins, heat shock proteins (HSP) in uniquely large concentrations that […]

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HIV/AIDS Treatment in Resource Poor Countries

HIV.AIDS Treatment in Resource Poor Countries-1

Yichen Lu ● Max Essex ● Chris Chanyasulkit Editors 2013 Public Health Challenges For public health workers in developing countries, working on AIDS prevention and control requires a broad range of social skills and special knowledge not taught in public health schools. Many of us from public health schools have often been impressed by what local AIDS workers […]

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