infectious diseases

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The book is designed to meet the needs of a variety of clinicians, including primary care physicians, family physicians, general practitioners, hospitalists, internists, nurse practitioners, pediatricians, clinical pharmacists, and other health professionals who are involved with infectious diseases in the inpatient or outpatient settings. It reviews clinically relevant topics in infectious diseases which are chosen because they are of interest to the practicing clinician or because there have been significant recent advances in diagnosis or treatment.

Aim of this book is to develop existing knowledge skills and attitudes of nurses and midwives on infections and infectious diseases and their prevention and control, within the European region. Topics covered includes: The prevention and control of infection, The Expanded Programme of Immunization, Infections spread by food and water, Infections spread by animals and insects and less common infectious diseases, Diseases spread by person-to-person contact, Tuberculosis , Infections spread by sexual contact and blood and body fluids.

This lecture note explains the following topics: infectious disease dynamics and compartmenal models, Population Dynamics of Infectious Diseases, Stochastic dynamics, spatial models, and metapopulations, Synchrony, Waves, and Spatial Hierarchies in the Spread of Influenza.

The overall goal of this note is to introduce you to the fields of microbiology and infectious diseases. It will cover a wide range of topics including bacteriology, virology, the pathophysiology and epidemiology of infectious diseases as well as the pharmacology of antimicrobial and antiviral agents.