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To request review copies [email protected] Back to contents 47 Medicine Infectious Diseases A Geographic Guide, 2nd Edition Eskild Petersen, Lin H. Chen & Patricia Schlagenhauf-Lawlor ISBN: 978-1-119-08572-0 | Jun 2017 | 496PP Previous Edition: 978-0-470-65529-0 The second edition of this concise and practical guide describes infections in geographical areas and provides information on disease risk, concomitant infections (such as co-prevalence of HIV and tuberculosis) and emerging bacterial, viral and parasitic infections in a given geographical area of the world. •• Geographic approach means that it’s the only book to guide the healthcare worker towards a diagnosis based on the location of symptoms and travel history by encouraging the question “where have you been?” •• New content covering MERS, Ebola, Zika, and infections transmitted during air and maritime travel •• Covers the major infectious disease outbreaks framed in their geographic setting such as H7N9 “bird flu” influenza, H1N1, Ebola, and Zika •• Outstanding international editor team with vast experience on various international infectious disease and as journal editors and key leaders in infection surveillance About the Editors Eskild Petersen MD, DMSc, DTM Senior Consultant, Department of Infectious Diseases, The Royal Hospital, Ministry of Health, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman. Lin H. Chen MD FACP, FASTMH Director of the Travel Medicine Center at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Patricia Schlagenhauf-Lawlor PhD, FFTM, RCPSS (Glasg) Senior Scientist and Professor, University of Zürich, WHO Collaborating Centre for Travel Medicine, Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute, Zurich,Switzerland.


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