Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Historical Overview of Global Infectious Diseases and Geopolitics / Francis E G Cox -- Detection of Infectious Diseases Using Unofficial Sources / Lawrence C Madoff, David O Freedman -- Microbes on the move: Prevention, Curtailment, Outbreak / Patricia Schlagenhauf, Giles Poumerol, Francisco Santos-O'Connor -- Diagnostic Tests and Procedures / Larry I Lutwick, Marc Mendelson, Eskild Petersen -- East Africa: Madagascar and Indian Ocean Islands / Philippe Gautret, Philippe Parola -- Eastern Africa / Andreas Neumayr, Christoph Hatz -- Central Africa / Gerd D Burchard, Stephan Ehrhardt -- North Africa / Philippe Gautret, Nadjet Mouffok, Philippe Parola -- Southern Africa / Marc Mendelson, Olga Perovic, Lucille Blumberg -- West Africa / Joanna S Herman, Peter L Chiodini -- Eastern Asia / Susan MacDonald, Yasuyuki Kato, Annelies Wilder-Smith -- South Central Asia / Prativa Pandey, Holly Murphy, Ashish Bhalla -- South-Eastern Asia / Daniel H Paris, Nicholas J White -- Western Asia and the Middle East: Part 1 / Eyal Leshem, Eli Schwartz -- Western Asia and the Middle East: Part 2 / Jaffar A Al-Tawfiq, Ziad A Memish -- Eastern Europe / Natalia Pshenichnaya, Malgorzata Paul -- Northern Europe / Birgitta Evenḡ, Audrone Marcinkute, Eskild Petersen -- Southern Europe / Francesco Castelli, Fabio Buelli, Pier Francesco Giorgetti -- Western Europe / Peter J de Vries -- Caribbean / Jana I Preis, Larry I Lutwick -- Central America / Julius B Salamera, Larry I Lutwick -- South America / Rodrigo Nogueira Angerami, Luiz Jacintho da Silva -- Northern America / Barbra M Blair, Philip R Fischer, Michael Libman, Lin H Chen -- Australia and New Zealand / Karin Leder, Joseph Torresi, Marc Shaw -- Oceania / Karin Leder, Joseph Torresi, Marc Shaw -- Arctic and Antarctica / Anders Koch, Michael G Bruce, Karin Ladefoged -- The Immunosuppressed Patient / Brian T Montague, Terri L Montague, Maria D Mileno -- Emerging Infections / Mary Elizabeth Wilson -- Migration and the Geography of Disease / Rogelio L̤pez-V̌lez, Francesca F Norman, Još-Antonio P̌rez-Molina -- Climate Change and the Geographical Distribution of Infectious Diseases / David Harley, Ashwin Swaminathan, Anthony J McMichael -- Abbreviations -- Index.

This concise and practical guide describes infections in geographical areas and provides information on disease risk, concomitant infections (such as co-prevalence of HIV and tuberculosis) and emerging bacterial, viral and parasitic infections in a given geographical area of the world. Infectious Diseases: A Geographic Guide is divided according to United Nations world regions and addresses geographic disease profiles, presenting symptoms and incubation periods of infections. Each chapter contains a section on the coverage of the childhood vaccination programs in the countries included in that.

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