Emerging Infectious Disease and Bioterrorism

Infectious Diseases and Bioterrorism

Microorganisms are a necessary part of everyday life. Many, known as resident or normal flora, adapt and live peacefully with the human body, providing benefits such as vitamin production or cellulose digestion in the intestines, and protection from disease-producing pathogens. Transient flora may stay for weeks to months but do not remain permanently because of fierce competition from resident...

Bioterrorism web site resources for infectious disease clinicians and epidemiologists.

Finding bioterrorism-related information on the World Wide Web can be laborious. We hope to help readers find such information more easily by summarizing essential information in a consistent framework. A panel of 7 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reviewers identified Web sites and evaluated them for sponsorship, mission, content usefulness, online ease of use, and adherence to commo...

Melioidosis: an emerging infectious disease.

Infectious diseases account for a third of all the deaths in the developing world. Achievements in understanding the basic microbiology, pathogenesis, host defenses and expanded epidemiology of infectious diseases have resulted in better management and reduced mortality. However, an emerging infectious disease, melioidosis, is becoming endemic in the tropical regions of the world and is spreadi...

Emerging Issues in Water and Infectious Disease

Emerging Infectious Disease : Host and Parasite Perspectives

Title of Dissertation: EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASE: HOST AND PARASITE PERSPECTIVES Jon S. Beadell, Doctor of Philosophy, 2007 Directed By: Dr. Robert C. Fleischer, Head, Center for Conservation and Evolutionary Genetics, National Zoological Park Dr. Gerald S. Wilkinson, Professor Behavior, Ecology, Evolution & Systematics Avian malaria and related haematozoa are nearly ubiquitous parasites that...