Athena P. Kourtis ● Marc Bulterys Editors 2012 This book presents the collective scholarship by well-recognized experts summarizing the current knowledge on HIV and infant feeding. Although the focus is upon HIV postnatal transmission through breast milk, the lessons learned to date have shown the importance and benefits of breastfeeding as well as the disadvantages and risks of […]
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James A. Radosevich Editor 2012
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John D. Lambris • George Hajishengallis Editors 2012 Recent and emerging evidence shows that innate immunity is not simply providing first-line defense against infection or other types of insult. Innate immune mechanisms are critically involved in the development of adaptive immunity and additionally regulate diverse physiological and homeostatic processes, such as synapse maturation in the central nervous system, angiogenesis, […]
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Ian M. Gould • Jos W. M. van der Meer Editors 2012 Controlling Hospital Acquired Infection Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are an increasing problem worldwide and need to be addressed urgently. In the European Union, about 7% of patients in acute care hospitals experience HAIs; recent analysis discloses an even higher prevalence in developing countries.
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Fabrizio Bruschi Editor 2014 The helminths are comprised of two distantly related taxa, the roundworm Nemathelminthes and the flatworm Platyhelminthes, the latter being divided into cestodes (tapeworms) and trematodes (flukes). Although these groups diverged evolutionarily many hundreds of millions of years ago, their patterns of transmission, infection, and pathogenesis are in many ways similar. Furthermore, the host immune responsiveness to […]
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Armando E. Fraire • Bruce A. Woda Raymond M. Welsh • Richard L. Kradin Editors 2014 Infections and Non-Infectious Viral-Linked Lung Disorders Worldwide, infectious disease remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality. In developing countries, infection represents a substantial proportion of all recorded deaths. Likewise, in developed countries, pneumonia alone accounts for a significant […]
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Marina Bentivoglio • Esper A. Cavalheiro Krister Kristensson • Nilesh B. Patel Editors 2014 This volume on the “ Neglected Tropical Diseases and Conditions of the Nervous System” arose from a symposium on neglected tropical diseases held at the 8th International Brain Research Organization (IBRO) World Congress of Neuroscience, Florence, Italy, in 2011.
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Richard A. Kaslow • Lawrence R. Stanberry James W. Le Duc Editors 2014 Epidemiology and Control It has been 17 years since the release of the last edition—an inordinately long interval in view of the dizzying pace of discovery in the biomedical sciences. That lengthy interval presented certain challenges in deciding whether and how to embark on […]
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Stefan Magez • Magdalena Radwanska Editors 2014 ‘Trypanosomiasis’ in general refers to a collection of parasitic diseases caused by both extracellular and intracellular protozoan parasites. This book will focus mainly on the extracellular trypanosome species that cause infections in human and animals and include T. brucei brucei, T. brucei rhodesiense, T. brucei gambiense, T. congolense, T. evansi and T. […]
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Heinz Mehlhorn • Zhongdao Wu • Bin Ye Editors 2014 Parasites of humans and their house or game animals threaten mankind since its beginning at the early steps of human evolution. Many parasites like the thread worm Ascaris lumbricoides or the head louse Pediculus humanus capitis had become even specialists for humans and were distributed by wandering groups of […]
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