Overview
- Provides a better understanding of cholera outbreaks - a prerequisite to prevent them
- Written by leading authorities in the field
- Richly illustrated
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology (CT MICROBIOLOGY, volume 379)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
The most feared attribute of the human pathogen Vibrio cholerae is its ability to cause outbreaks that spread like wildfire, completely overwhelming public health systems and causing widespread suffering and death. This volume starts with a description of the contrasting patterns of outbreaks caused by the classical and El Tor biotypes of V. cholerae. Subsequent chapters examine cholera outbreaks in detail, including possible sources of infection and molecular epidemiology on three different continents, the emergence of new clones through the bactericidal selection process of lytic cholera phages, the circulation and transmission of clones of the pathogen during outbreaks and novel approaches to modeling cholera outbreaks. A further contribution deals with the application of the genomic sciences to trace the spread of cholera epidemics and how this information can be used to control cholera outbreaks. The book closes with an analysis of the potential use of killed oralcholera vaccines to stop the spread of cholera outbreaks.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cholera Outbreaks
Editors: G. Balakrish Nair, Yoshifumi Takeda
Series Title: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55404-9
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer-Verlag GmbH, DE, part of Springer Nature 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-55403-2Published: 03 July 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-52271-4Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-55404-9Published: 13 June 2014
Series ISSN: 0070-217X
Series E-ISSN: 2196-9965
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 263
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 21 illustrations in colour
Topics: Medical Microbiology, Infectious Diseases, Vaccine, Epidemiology
Industry Sectors: Biotechnology, Consumer Packaged Goods, Pharma