Phyllis Kanki • Darrell Jay Grimes Editors 2013 This volume collects selected topical entries from the Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology (ESST). ESST addresses the grand challenges for science and engineering today. It provides unprecedented, peer-reviewed coverage of sustainability science and technology with contributions from nearly 1,000 of the world’s leading scientists and engineers, […]

Hilary Humphreys • Bob Winter • Mical Paul 2013 In the acute hospital, infections in critically care patients are more common than in most other parts of the hospital and are often the most complicated. The complexity of underlying disease and the reasons requiring admission to the critical care unit, e.g. multiple trauma, make the […]

Yichen Lu ● Max Essex ● Chris Chanyasulkit Editors 2013 December 1, 2011, was the 24th annual World AIDS Day. This one was particularly significant as 2011 marked the 30th anniversary of the first diagnosis of an AIDS patient. The organizers of World AIDS Day launched a 5-year campaign entitled “Getting to Zero,” a theme […]

Franco Maria Ruggeri · Ilaria Di Bartolo Fabio Ostanello · Marcello Trevisani 2013 Hepatitis E, previously known as “enterically transmitted non-A, non-B, non-C (non-A-C) hepatitis”, is an infectious viral disease with clinical and morphological features of acute hepatitis. The course of disease is mild in most affected people, except pregnant women, for whom the mortality […]

Gloria Sánchez 2013 Hepatitis A virus (HAV) is responsible for around half of the total number of hepatitis infections diagnosed worldwide. HAV infection is mainly propagated via the fecal-oral route, and as a consequence of globalization, transnational outbreaks of foodborne infections are reported with increasing frequency. Therefore, in this review, state-of-the-art information regarding molecular procedures […]

Peter Zuber 2013 A complex regulatory network governs the microbial response to encounters with harsh environmental conditions. Such networks also influence essential decisionmaking processes that coordinate metabolic pathways and maintain cellular ultrastructure. The study of such networks has been a fruitful area of research over the years, and continues to be a major focus of […]

V. Sree Hari Rao • Ravi Durvasula Editors 2013 In Volume 1 of “Dynamic Models of Infectious Diseases,” ISBN 978-1-4614-3960- 8 and 978-1-4614-3961-5(eBook), we assembled eight chapters from highly acclaimed international scientists who address several of the major insect vectorborne diseases. A diverse and interdisciplinary group of authors was selected with expertise in clinical infectious […]