Published January, 2014
By Winfried Schröder, Gunther Schmidt and Winfried Schroeder
Publisher: Springer (Springer International Publishing AG)
Series: SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science
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This book investigates the spatial distribution of potential temperature-driven malaria transmissions, using the basic reproduction rate (R0) to model the reproduction of the malaria pathogen Plasmodium vivax.

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Published January, 2014
By Larry J. Anderson and Barney S. Graham
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology
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Although respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) has been a high priority for vaccine development for over 50 years now, still no vaccine is available and none has yet demonstrated sufficient promise to move to licensure.

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Published December, 2013
By Jean Pieters and John D. McKinney
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology
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With contributions from an interdisciplinary team of recognized experts, this illustrated volume reviews the diverse mechanisms-genetic, metabolic, and molecular-that give M. tuberculosis its antibiotic-resistant virulence and allow it to evade immune systems.

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Published December, 2013
By Markus Fischer
Publisher: Springer (Springer Spektrum)
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Dieser Sammelband gibt einen UEberblick uber einige wichtige Infektionskrankheiten, die Entwicklung von neuen Medikamenten, die Ausbildung von Resistenzen sowie Moeglichkeiten der Vermeidung von Infektionen durch Lebensmittel.

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Published December, 2013
By Oliver Kurzai
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: The Mycota
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Whereas plant and insect infections are commonly caused by fungi, only a small minority of the vast diversity of fungal species is pathogenic to humans.

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Published December, 2013
By Oliver Kurzai
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
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Whereas plant and insect infections are commonly caused by fungi, only a small minority of the vast diversity of fungal species is pathogenic to humans.

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Published December, 2013
By Simone Caccio, Giovanni Widmer and Simone M. Cacciò
Publisher: Springer (Springer Verlag GmbH)
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This new volume on Cryptosporidium and Cryptosporidiosis discusses all relevant aspects of the biology, molecular biology, host-parasite interaction, epidemiology as well as diagnosis and treatment of these widespread parasites. A section on practical lab procedures discusses step-by-step guidelines for sample preparation and lab procedures.

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Published December, 2013
By Kenneth Palmer, Yuri Gleba and Kenneth E. Palmer
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology
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The discipline is no longer exclusively in the domain of academics-there is a small, but growing number of small biotechnology companies that exploit plant viruses as the platform for commercial innovation in crop improvement, industrial product manufacturing, and human and veterinary health care.

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Published December, 2013
By Peter Daszak, John S. MacKenzie, Jurgen A.. Richt, Martyn Jeggo, Juergen Richt, Peter S. Daszak and Juergen A. Richt
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology
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One Health is an emerging concept that aims to bring together human, animal, and environmental health. In the 19th and early 20th centuries this was not the case-then researchers like Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch and physicians like William Osler and Rudolph Virchow crossed the boundaries between animal and human health.

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Published December, 2013
By Andre Santos, Marta Branquinha, Catia Sodre, Claudia d'Avila-Levy, Lucimar Kneipp, André L.S. Santos, Marta H. Branquinha, Claudia M. d’Avila-Levy, Lucimar F. Kneipp and Cátia L. Sodré
Publisher: Springer
Series: Subcellular Biochemistry
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