Modeling the Transmission and Prevention of Infectious Disease

Abstract

This 287-page book is part of a series on modeling the transmission and prevention of infectious disease. The book is organized into 2 parts, which are further divided into 9 individually authored chapters. The first chapter deals with preventing infectious diseases in spacecraft and space habitats. The second chapter deals with bacterial resistance to hospital disinfection. The third chapter deals with disinfection of microbial aerosols. The remaining chapters deals with the role of the indigenous gut microbiota in human health and disease, buruli ulcer: case study of a neglected tropical disease, coccidioidomycosis: increasing incidence of an "Orphan" disease in response to environmental changes, antibiotic-resistant environmental bacteria and their role as reservoirs in disease, population dynamics, invasion, and biological control of environmentally growing opportunistic pathogens, and of ducks and men: ecology and evolution of a zoonotic pathogen in a wild reservoir host. The book highlights a list of contributors and their respective institutions. Each chapter contains a list of references. The text is written in English and indexed by subject with tables, and figures. Users of this book will include gastroenterologists, nutritionists, and oncologists.