Provides new insights into the control of infectious diseases

Combines relevant aspects of public health and ecology along with microbiology

Richly illustrated throughout

Provides new insights into the control of infectious diseases Combines relevant aspects of public health and ecology along with microbiology Richly illustrated throughout Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Autorentext

Christon J. Hurst

Cincinnati, Ohio

USA

and

Universidad del Valle

Santiago de Cali, Valle

Colombia

Zusammenfassung

Provides new insights into the control of infectious diseases

Combines relevant aspects of public health and ecology along with microbiology

Richly illustrated throughout

Inhalt

Preventing infectious diseases in spacecraft and space habitats.- Bacterial resistance to hospital disinfection.- Disinfection of microbial aerosols.- The role of the indigenous gut microbiota in human health and disease.- Buruli ulcer: Case Study of a Neglected Tropical Disease.- Coccidioidomycosis: increasing incidence of an 'orphan' disease in response to environmental changes.- Antibiotic resistant environmental bacteria and their role as reservoirs in disease.- Population dynamics, invasion and biological control of environmentally growing opportunistic pathogens.- Of ducks and men - ecology and evolution of a zoonotic pathogen in a wild reservoir host.