Main description:

Rabies: Basis of the Disease and Its Management, Fourth Edition is an authoritative reference on the current status of rabies, including the virological, clinical, and public health aspects and management recommendations. Rabies remains one of the most important global public health problems worldwide. Although many important developments have been made over the past century to combat this disease, rabies has become a re-emergent infection in the resource-constrained countries. The Fourth Edition updates this classic reference with comprehensive coverage of the molecular virology, pathogenesis, immunology, vaccines, public health aspects, and epidemiology of rabies and is completely revised, with new chapters that will cover historical developments in rabies intervention strategies, the evolution of rabies virus, modeling rabies control, and on the strategy for rabies elimination. Rabies, Fourth Edition, provides physicians, veterinarians, public health advisors, epidemiologists, and research scientists with a single source for authoritative and up-to-date information on the diagnosis, treatment, control, and prevention of this fatal infectious virus.

Contents:

1. A history of rabies - The foundation for global canine rabies elimination 2. Rabies virus 3. Evolution of rabies virus 4. Epidemiology 5. Molecular epidemiology 6. Rabies in terrestrial animals 7. Bat rabies 8. Human disease 9. Pathogenesis 10. Pathology 11. Immunology 12. Laboratory diagnosis of rabies 13. Measures of rabies immunity 14. Human and animal vaccines 15. Next generation of rabies vaccines 16. Public health management of humans at risk 17. Therapy of human rabies 18. Dog rabies and its control 19. Rabies control in wild carnivores 20. Modeling canine rabies virus transmission dynamics 21. Strategies for the elimination of dog-mediated human rabies by 2030 22. Future developments and challenges