Advances In Parasitology: Important Helminth Infections in Southeast Asia: Diversity and Potential for Control and Elimination - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0123815134 ISBN 13 : 9780123815132

Editeur : Academic Press Inc, 2010

Synopsis

This thematic volume provides authoritative, up-to-date reviews pertaining to the epidemiology, public health significance and shifts therein, control (current activities, successes, setbacks), persisting challenges (e.g. sanitation, universal coverage of health services, health-related behavior) of the key parasitic diseases in Southeast Asia. The book also discusses the new tools and approaches for enhanced discovery and control of helminthic diseases. It informs and updates on all the latest developments in the field. It features contributions from leading authorities and industry experts.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Professor Xiao-Nong Zhou is Director of the National Institute of Parasitic Diseases at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shanghai, P.R.China. He graduated with a PhD in Biology from Copenhagen University, Denmark. His professional works are across the fields of ecology, population biology, epidemiology, and malacology. Professor Zhou is the Chair of the National Expert Advisory Committee on schistosomiasis and other parasitic diseases for China's National Health and Family Planning Commission. He has written extensively on parasitology and parasitic diseases, with more than 100 peer review publications in international journals, such as N Engl J Med, Lancet, Emerg Inf Dis, Inter J Parasitol, Adv Parasitol, PLoS NTDs, Parasites and Vectors, etc. He has collaborated with WHO/TDR and WHO, including serving as members for WHO STAC on NTDs, WHO/TDR STAC, WHO Foodborne Burden Epidemiology Reference Group. He had contributed, as former President, to the Regional Network on Asian Schistosomiasis and Other Important Zoonoses since 2000. He is the Editor-in-Chief for Infectious Diseases of Poverty (BioMed Central as publisher), and Chinese Journal of Schistosomiasis Control (Chinese national journal).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Academic Press Inc
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0123815134
• ISBN 13: 9780123815132
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 480
• Éditeur: Zhou Xiao-Nong, Bergquist Robert, Olveda Remigio, Utzinger Dr. Juerg
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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