- Hardcover: 680 pages
- Publisher: Academic Press; 2 edition (11 Jun 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0123693667
- ISBN-13: 978-0123693662
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 15.9 x 4.3 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,423,486 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Rabies is the most current and comprehensive account of one of the oldest diseases known that remains a significant public health threat despite the efforts of many who have endeavored to control it in wildlife and domestic animals. During the past five years since publication of the first edition there have been new developments in many areas on the rabies landscape. This edition takes on a more global perspective with many new authors offering fresh outlooks on each topic. Clinical features of rabies in humans and animals are discussed as well as basic science aspects, molecular biology, pathology, and pathogenesis of this disease. Current methods used in defining geographic origins and animal species infected in wildlife are presented, along with diagnostic methods for identifying the strain of virus based on its genomic sequence and antigenic structure.This multidisciplinary account is essential for clinicians as well as public health advisors, epidemiologists, wildlife biologists, and research scientists wanting to know more about the virus and the disease it causes.This book offers a unique global perspective on rabies where dog rabies is responsible for killing more people than yellow fever, dengue fever, or Japanese encephalitis. More than 7 million people are potentially exposed to the virus annually and about 50,000 people, half of them children, die of rabies each year. New edition includes greatly expanded coverage of bat rabies which is now the most prominent source of human rabies in the New World and Western Europe, where dog rabies has been controlled. It presents recent successes of controlling wildlife rabies with an emphasis on prevention is discussed. Approximately 40 per cent updated material incorporates recent knowledge on new approaches to therapy of human rabies as well as issues involving organ and tissue transplantation. It includes an increase in illustrations to more accurately represent this diseases' unique horror.
About the Author
Dr. Jackson is Professor of Medicine (Neurology) and of Medical Microbiology and also Head of the Section of Neurology at University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He graduated from Queen's University with BA and MD degrees. He completed an internship in internal medicine at University of Southern California, residencies in internal medicine at Queen's University and in neurology at the University of Western Ontario, and a fellowship in neurovirology at The Johns Hopkins University with Drs. Richard Johnson and Diane Griffin. Dr. Jackson held a faculty position at Queen's University from 1987 - 2007. He is on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of NeuroVirology and the Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences. He is President of Rabies in the Americas, Inc. and is on the Board of Directors of the International Society for Neurovirology. Dr. Jackson is the principal investigator on research grants to study experimental aspects of rabies.
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excelente tool for epidemioogy
29 April 2010
Format:Hardcover
buy this book thinking it was good and I realized that was excellent is well organized and documented. I'm hoping that a new version comes out.
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RABIES-2ND EDITION- A MUST FOR MEDICAL AND VETERINARY LIBRARIES
8 Aug 2007
Format:Hardcover
This 2nd edition of 'Rabies" edited by Jackson and Wunner is well organized and thoroughly documented, with contributions by several highly experienced researchers and public health experts. Molecular epidemiology, problems with rabies serology, the challenges of developing broader vaccines and RIG to cover newly-discovered lyssaviruses, and issues related to oral animal vaccination campaigns are among items of particular interest. The book clearly describes progress with this neglected problem over the past few years and also addresses the many challenges to eliminating this currently uniformly fatal disease, half of whose victims are under 15 years of age. Should be on library shelf of every veterinary and medical school and highlights the importance of a new paradigm for zoonoses,global public health and future survival of the human species. The book also is an excellent baseline for those new to the field, where there is a dearth of such compendiums.
R.E. Dedmon, MD MPH FACP FACOEM
R.E. Dedmon, MD MPH FACP FACOEM
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