: Ronald M. Atlas, Stanley Maloy
: One Health People, Animals, and the Environment
: ASM Press
: 9781683673460
: 1
: CHF 70.00
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: Medizin
: English
: 336
: DRM
: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet
: ePUB

Emerging infectious diseases are often due to environmental disruption, which exposes microbes to a different niche that selects for new virulence traits and facilitates transmission between animals and humans. Thus, health of humans also depends upon health of animals and the environment - a concept called One Health. This book presents core concepts, compelling evidence, successful applications, and remaining challenges ofOne Health approaches to thwarting the threat of emerging infectious disease.

Written by scientists working in the field, this book will provide a series of 'stories' about how disruption of the environment and transmission from animal hosts is responsible for emerging human and animal diseases.

  • Explains the concept ofOne Health and the history of the One Health paradigm shift.
  • Traces the emergence of devastating new diseases in both animals and humans.
  • Presents case histories of notable, new zoonoses, including West Nile virus, hantavirus, Lyme disease, SARS, and salmonella.
  • Links several epidemic zoonoses with the environmental factors that promote them.
  • Offers insight into the mechanisms of microbial evolution toward pathogenicity.
  • Discus es the many causes behind the emergence of antibiotic resistance.
  • Presents new technologies and approaches for public health disease surveillance.
  • Offers political and bureaucratic strategies for promoting the global acceptance of One Health.

CONTRIBUTORS


Kyle Adair  •   Centre for Immunity, Infection& Evolution, and Ashworth Laboratories, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JT, United Kingdom

Salvador Almagro-Moreno  •   Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH 03755

Ronald M. Atlas  •   Department of Biology, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292-0001

Hazel A. Barton  •   Department of Biology, University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325-3809

Liam Brierley  •   Centre for Immunity, Infection& Evolution, and Ashworth Laboratories, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JT, United Kingdom

Edmundo Calva  •   Departamento de Microbiología Molecular, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Cuernavaca, Morelos 62210, Mexico

Veronica Casas  •   Center for Microbial Sciences, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92182

David W. Chapman  •   Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN 55455

Edward E. Clark  •   Wildlife Center of Virginia, Waynesboro, VA 22980

Peter Daszak  •   EcoHealth Alliance, New York, NY 10001

Julian Davies  •   Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Life Science Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3, Canada

John Deen  •   Department of Veterinary Population Medicine, University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine, St. Paul, MN 55108

Matthew Dixon  •   The Centre on Global Health Security, Chatham House, The Royal Institute of International Affairs, London SW1Y 4LE, United Kingdom

Bernadette Dunham  •   Center for Veterinary Medicine, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Rockville, MD 20855

Julie C. Ellis  •   Tufts University, Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, North Grafton, MA 01536

Macdonald W. Farnham  •   Department of Veterinary Population Medicine, University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine, St. Paul, MN 55108

John R. Fischer  •   Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602

Richard French  •   University of New Hampshire, New Hampshire Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, Durham, NH 03824

Carolyn Garcia  •   School of Nursing, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN 55455

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