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Index
Cover
Half Title
Dedication
Title
Copyright
Contents
Introduction
1 Elements of Communicable Diseases
1.1 What Are Communicable Diseases?
1.2 The Agent
1.3 Transmission
1.4 Host Factors
1.5 The Environment
2 Communicable Disease Theory
2.1 Force of Infection
2.2 Epidemic Theory
2.3 Endemicity
2.4 Quantitative Dynamics
3 Control Principles and Methods
3.1 Control Principles
3.2 Control Methods – Vaccination
3.3 Environmental Control Methods
3.4 Vector Control
3.5 Treatment and Mass Drug Administration
3.6 Other Control Methods
4 Control Strategy and Organization
4.1 Investigation of an Outbreak
4.2 Surveillance
4.3 Control and Eradication
4.4 Campaigns and Integrated Health Care
4.5 Social Factors in Control Programmes
4.6 Health Promotion
5 Notification and Health Regulations
5.1 International Health Regulations
5.2 National Health Regulations
5.3 Special Surveillance
5.4 Vaccination Requirements
6 Classification of Communicable Diseases
7 Diseases of Poor Hygiene
7.1 Scabies
7.2 Lice
7.3 Superficial Fungal Infections (Dermatophytosis)
7.4 Tropical Ulcers
7.5 Yaws
7.6 Pinta
7.7 Endemic Syphilis (Bejel)
7.8 Trachoma
7.9 Epidemic Haemorrhagic Conjunctivitis
7.10 Ophthalmia Neonatorum
7.11 Other Infections
8 Faecal–Oral Diseases
8.1 Gastroenteritis
8.2 Rotavirus Infection
8.3 Cryptosporidiosis
8.4 Cholera
8.5 Bacillary Dysentery (Shigellosis)
8.6 Giardia
8.7 Amoebiasis
8.8 Typhoid
8.9 Hepatitis A (HAV)
8.10 Hepatitis E (HEV)
8.11 Poliomyelitis (Polio)
8.12 Enterobius (Pinworm)
9 Food-borne Diseases
9.1 Food Poisoning
9.2 Campylobacter Enteritis
9.3 The Intestinal Fluke (Fasciolopsis)
9.4 The Sheep Liver Fluke (Fasciola hepatica)
9.5 The Fish-transmitted Liver Flukes
9.6 The Lung Fluke
9.7 The Fish Tapeworm
9.8 The Beef and Pork Tapeworms
9.9 Trichinosis
9.10 Other Infections Transmitted by Food
10 Diseases of Soil Contact
10.1 Trichuris (Whipworm)
10.2 Ascaris
10.3 Hookworms
10.4 Strongyloides
10.5 Tetanus
11 Diseases of Water Contact
11.1 Schistosomiasis
11.2 Guinea Worm
11.3 Buruli Ulcer
12 Skin Infections
12.1 Chickenpox/Shingles (Varicella)
12.2 Measles
12.3 Rubella
12.4 Mumps
12.5 Streptococcal Skin Infections
12.6 Leprosy
13 Respiratory Diseases and Other Airborne-transmitted Infections
13.1 Tuberculosis
13.2 Acute Respiratory Infections (ARIs)
13.3 Influenza
13.4 Whooping Cough (Pertussis)
13.5 Diphtheria
13.6 Meningococcal Meningitis
13.7 Haemophilus influenzae (Meningitis and Pneumonia)
13.8 Pneumococcal Disease
13.9 Otitis Media
13.10 Acute Rheumatic Fever
14 Diseases Transmitted via Body Fluids
14.1 Venereal Syphilis
14.2 Gonorrhoea
14.3 Chlamydia
14.4 Trichomonas and Non-gonococcal Urethritis
14.5 Lymphogranuloma Venereum
14.6 Granuloma Inguinale (Donovanosis)
14.7 Chancroid
14.8 Genital Herpes
14.9 Human Papillomavirus (HPV)
14.10 Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)
14.11 Hepatitis B (HBV)
14.12 Hepatitis C (HCV)
14.13 Hepatitis Delta (HDV)
14.14 Ebola Haemorrhagic Fever
14.15 Marburg Disease/Haemorrhagic Fever
14.16 Lassa and Crimean–Congo Haemorrhagic Fevers
15 Insect-borne Diseases
15.1 Mosquito-borne Diseases
15.2 Arboviruses
15.3 Japanese Encephalitis (JE)
15.4 Dengue
15.5 Yellow Fever
15.6 Malaria
15.7 Lymphatic Filariasis
15.8 Onchocerciasis
15.9 Loiasis
15.10 African Trypanosomiasis (Sleeping Sickness)
15.11 American Trypanosomiasis (Chagas’ Disease)
15.12 Leishmaniasis
16 Ectoparasite Zoonoses
16.1 Plague
16.2 Typhus
16.3 Louse-borne Relapsing Fever
16.4 Tick-borne Relapsing Fever
16.5 Diseases Transmitted by Hard Ticks
16.6 Tick Typhus/Fever
16.7 Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
16.8 Lyme Disease (Borreliosis)
16.9 Tick-borne Encephalitis
16.10 Arboviruses
17 Domestic and Synanthropic Zoonoses
17.1 Rabies
17.2 Hydatid Disease
17.3 Toxocariasis
17.4 Larva Migrans
17.5 Toxoplasmosis
17.6 Brucellosis
17.7 Anthrax
17.8 Leptospirosis
17.9 Lassa Fever
18 Pregnancy and Infection
18.1 Before Pregnancy
18.2 During Pregnancy
18.3 Post-partum
19 New and Emerging Diseases
19.1 The Animal Connection
19.2 Avian Influenza and its Implications
19.3 Other Animal-related Emerging Infections
19.4 Arboviruses
19.5 Antimicrobial Resistance
19.6 Bioterrorism
20 List of Communicable Diseases
Index
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