Infectious Diseases of Humans: Dynamics and Control
Infectious Diseases of Humans: Dynamics and Control Books
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This book deals with infectious diseases — viral, bacterial, protozoan and helminth — in terms of the dynamics of their interaction with host populations. The book combines mathematical models with extensive use of epidemiological and other data. This analytic framework is highly helpful for the evaluation of broadcast health strategies aimed at controlling or eradicating particular infections. Such a framework is increasingly vital in light of the widespread concern for primary health care programs aimed at such diseases as measles, malaria, river loss of sight, sleeping sickness, and schistosomiasis, and the advent of AIDS/HIV and other emerging viruses. Throughout the book, the mathematics is used as a tool for thought clearly about fundamental and applied problems having to do with infectious diseases. The book is divided into two parts, one dealing with microparasites (viruses, bacteria and protozoans) and the other with macroparasites (helminths and parasitic arthropods). Each part starts with simple models, developed in a biologically intuitive way, and then goes on to develop more complicated and realistic models as tools for broadcast health plotting. The book synthesizes previous work in this rapidly growing field (much of which is scattered between the ecological and the medical literature) with a excellent deal of new material.
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