Published August, 2016
By 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 August, 2016
By Heinz Mehlhorn, Zhongdao Wu, Bin Ye and Wu Zhongdao
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
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This book examines the efficacy of plant-derived products for curing human infections caused by important parasites that have been used for over a thousand years by practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine in the light of recent chemotherapeuticals.

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Published August, 2016
By Radhakrishnan Padmanabhan and Subhash G. Vasudevan
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
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Infection by flaviviruses such as dengue virus serotypes (DENV 1-4), Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV), tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBE), yellow fever virus (YFV) and West Nile virus (WNV) impact millions of lives and cause tens of thousands of mortalities each year.

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Published August, 2016
By Cornel Fraefel and Russell J. Diefenbach
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
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Herpes Simplex Virus: Methods and Protocols provides a wide collection of protocols employed in various levels of herpes virus research, including basic protocols on growing viruses in cell culture and cloning, manipulating and preparing viral DNA.

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Published August, 2016
By Hubert Hilbi
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
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Legionnaires' disease, a potentially fatal type of pneumonia primarily affecting elderly and immuno-compromised persons, is caused by the ubiquitous environmental bacterium Legionella pneumophila.

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Published August, 2016
By Larry J. Anderson and Barney S. Graham
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
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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 August, 2016
By Peter Daszak, John S. MacKenzie, Jurgen A.. Richt, Martyn Jeggo and Juergen A. Richt
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
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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 August, 2016
By Olga Genilloud and Flavia Marinelli
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
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Reports on the emergence and prevalence of resistant bacterial infections in hospitals and communities raise concerns that we may soon no longer be able to rely on antibiotics as a way to control infectious diseases.

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Published August, 2016
By Nancy Khardori and Chand Wattal
Publisher: Springer (Springer, India, Private Ltd)
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However, most health care professionals see them as mandates and fail to incorporate them into their routine patient care activities. The expectation is that understanding of the principles will change the practices from mandates to "should do" in the minds of health care professionals.

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Published August, 2016
By Mary Ann McDowell and Sima Rafati
Publisher: Springer (Springer Verlag GmbH)
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The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is highly endemic for several neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), including viral, bacterial, protozoan and helminth infections. This new volume covers the most prevalent NTDs found in about 22 MENA countries emphasizing the disease burden, clinical manifestations and control approaches.

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