Bird flu; the new emerging infectious disease.9781604562385 Bird flu bird flu: see influenza. bird flu or avian influenza viral respiratory disease, mainly of birds including poultry and waterbirds but also transmissible to humans. ; the new emerging infectious disease An emerging infectious disease (EID) is an infectious disease whose incidence has increased in the past 20 years and threatens to increase in the near future. EIDs include diseases caused by a newly identified microorganism or newly identified strain of a known microorganism (e.g. . Wiwanitkit, Viroj. Nova Science Publishers 2008 167 pages $129.00 Hardcover RA644 The author, who is on the Faculty of Medicine at Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, looks at research results, clinical aspects, and public health issues related to bird flu. He presents data from the molecular to the population scales, as well as additional metanalysis for important topics, and provides diagnostic and clinical practice guidelines clinical practice guidelines Clinical policies, practice guidelines, practice parameters, practice policies Medtalk Systematically developed statements to assist practitioner and Pt decisions about appropriate health care for specific clinical circumstances. See Psychology. for treatment and prevention. After a review of the virology virology, study of viruses and their role in disease. Many viruses, such as animal RNA viruses and viruses that infect bacteria, or bacteriophages, have become useful laboratory tools in genetic studies and in work on the cellular metabolic control of gene expression and molecular evolution of the influenza virus influenza virus n. Any of three viruses of the genus Influenzavirus designated type A, type B, and type C, that cause influenza and influenzalike infections. and the different types of bird flu, chapters outline the problem from global and regional perspectives, then describe clinical manifestations, pathology of bird flu infection, procedures for laboratory investigation, and prevention and treatment of human bird flu infection. There is also material on veterinary aspects, and a chapter on other bird-borne infectious diseases. ([c]20082005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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