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19december2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2011
Oxford Textbook of Zoonoses

Zoonoses are illnesses which are naturally transmissible from vertebrate animals to humans. Transmission can occur through direct contact with the animal, by contact with carcasses, via contaminated food or water, or through inhaling infected dust.
This book is a revised, second edition that includes new zoonoses such as SARS. This edition contains added discussions of public health and political issues. In the first section of the book, general topics are covered, such as antibiotics resistance, the global impact of zoonoses and public and animal health. Each of the chapters that follows focuses on one specific disease, with descriptions of the history, the microbiology of the pathogen, pathogenesis, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis. The three parts of the book are devoted, respectively, to the bacterial (plus Chlamydia and Rickettsia), viral and parasitic zoonoses.


Oxford Textbook of Zoonoses
Biology, Clinical Practice, and Public Health Control
S.R. Palmer, Lord Soulsby, Paul Torgerson, and David W. G. Brown (editors)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2011
ISBN-10: 0198570023
ISBN-13: 978-0198570028