Human Infectious Disease and Public Health Fullick WilliamPaperback / softback
Human Infectious Disease and Public Health Fullick WilliamPaperback / softback Infectious disease will affect most of us at some point in our lives, despite tremendous advances in medicine over the…
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Human Infectious Disease and Public Health Fullick WilliamPaperback / softback
Infectious disease will affect most of us at some point in our lives, despite tremendous advances in medicine over the past century. Our understanding of the nature of infectious diseases continues to grow - as does our understanding of the human immune system. We all still fall ill from pathogens in our everyday environments - but many of us now survive infections which would have proved fatal in the past.
We continue to develop drugs and public health regimens to attempt to treat or prevent more and more diseases from causing acute sickness and/or long-term health problems - and indeed, we have been successful at eradicating (or almost eradicating) a number of previously common illnesses over the past fifty years.This text explores the structure and function of each distinct type of pathogen (bacteria, viruses, fungi, parasites and prion disease), as well as the biochemical
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