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An extraordinary array of infectious agents affects humans; from worms, arthopods, and fungi to bacteria, viruses, and prions. In this compendium of the curious and fascinating organisms that cause disease, including Legionnaire's disease, mumps, CJD, and chlamydia, David I. Grove provides a lively, fact-filled account of the nature of each organism, their life cycle, the ingenious ways in which they infect humans, and the human stories behind their discovery.

Parasitic diseases. --- Prion diseases. --- Pediculosis. --- Tapeworms. --- Cestoda --- Cestodes --- Platyhelminthes --- Head lice infestation --- Lice infestation --- Phtheiriasis --- Phthiriasis --- Ectoparasitic infestations --- Encephalopathies, Spongiform --- Prion infections --- Spongiform encephalopathies --- Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies --- Unconventional slow virus diseases --- Communicable diseases --- Slow virus diseases --- Medical parasitology --- Bacterial Infections --- Mycoses --- Virus Diseases --- Parasitic Diseases --- Communicable Diseases --- Disease Vectors --- Arthropod Vectors --- Vector-pathogen relationships --- Worms as carriers of disease --- Arthropod vectors --- Pathogenic fungi --- Pathogenic bacteria --- history --- transmission --- Transmission --- Bacterial Infections - history --- Mycoses - history --- Virus Diseases - history --- Parasitic Diseases - history --- Communicable Diseases - transmission --- Communicable diseases - Transmission

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Social Ecology of Infectious Diseases explores how human activities enable microbes to disseminate and evolve, thereby creating favorable conditions for the diverse manifestations of communicable diseases. Today, infectious and parasitic diseases cause about one-third of deaths and are the second leading cause of morbidity and mortality. The speed that changes in human behavior can produce epidemics is well illustrated by AIDS, but this is only one of numerous microbial threats whose severity and spread are determined by human behaviors. In this book, forty experts in the fields of infe

Communicable diseases --- Epidemics --- Social ecology --- Transmission --- Communicable diseases. --- Epidemics. --- Social ecology. --- Communicable disease transmission --- Disease transmission --- Diseases --- Germs, Spread of --- Spread of communicable diseases --- Spread of germs --- Transmission of diseases --- Epidemiology --- Ecology, Social --- Environment, Human --- Human ecology (Social sciences) --- Human environment --- Social sciences --- Disease outbreaks --- Outbreaks of disease --- Pestilences --- Contagion and contagious diseases --- Contagious diseases --- Infectious diseases --- Microbial diseases in human beings --- Zymotic diseases --- Infection --- Transmission. --- Outbreaks --- Pandemics --- Communicable diseases - Transmission

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It is clear that many fascinating problems still remain to be addressed in parasite transmission modelling, from better understanding of transmission processes and natural history of infection to investigating the impact of ecological and spatial scales, climate change, host immunity and social behaviour, parasite-host evolutionary dynamics and parasite community ecology on parasite transmission. This book captures some of the advances made in recent years and provides indications of ways forward for addressing these questions by shedding light on developments in conceptual frameworks and modelling tools as well as the emergence of new data forms for aiding model construction, testing and analysis. Another important advance has been the parallel development of robust computationally-intensive statistical methods to allow model testing and parameterization by aiding the fitting of models to complex data. This is an exciting area of work, which we believe will broaden the scope of mathematical modelling in investigating parasite transmission processes. In particular, we expect this advance will now allow modellers to begin the successful development and analysis of mechanistically-rich models of parasite transmission that will facilitate better integration of the variety of mechanisms increasingly recognized as important in simultaneously affecting transmission, including abiotic processes, trophic and evolutionary interactions, movement in space, and behaviour and even physiology of the individual. We foresee a continuing bright future for using mathematical modelling to clarify parasite transmission dynamics and address problems related to effective parasite control. Ultimately, through this improved application of models to research and management, we expect that parasite control would be an achievable goal bringing benefits to a vast number of our fellow human beings.

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The human foetus is separated from the maternal blood by the syncytiotrophoblast induced by endogeneous human retrovirus-encoded proteins. This barrier is a highly developed one, which supports apical-basolateral transport of maternal idiotype and anti-idiotype IgG, IgG-virus complexes. The selective maternal-fetal transport of epitope- and paratope-bearing entities can influence the developing fetal immune system during pregnancy. The bidirectional maternal-fetal transfer of cells are of even more importance during pregnancy. Maternal cells with latent viruses transport viruses without impairment of foetal development. Cells with premalignant and malignant genetic transformation are also transported to the fetus. Fetal and neonatal tumours are initiated by such cells in spite of the antitumour potential of fetal organism. On the contrary, the foetal cells repair maternal tissue injuries and survive in the organisms of the recipients for decades. These possess new consequences for the neonatal immunity and organ transplant surgery.

Carcinogenesis. --- Communicable diseases -- Transmission. --- Maternal-fetal exchange. --- Medical virology. --- Medical virology --- Maternal-fetal exchange --- Carcinogenesis --- Pregnancy --- Biology --- Diseases --- Biological Science Disciplines --- Reproduction --- Natural Science Disciplines --- Reproductive Physiological Processes --- Disciplines and Occupations --- Reproductive Physiological Phenomena --- Reproductive and Urinary Physiological Phenomena --- Phenomena and Processes --- Virus Diseases --- Genetics --- Maternal-Fetal Exchange --- Medicine --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Oncology --- Microbiology & Immunology --- Communicable diseases --- Transmission. --- Communicable disease transmission --- Disease transmission --- Germs, Spread of --- Spread of communicable diseases --- Spread of germs --- Transmission of diseases --- Cancer --- Oncogenesis --- Pathogenesis of cancer --- Tumorigenesis --- Transmission --- Pathogenesis --- Medicine. --- Cancer research. --- Immunology. --- Virology. --- Oncology. --- Pediatrics. --- Epidemiology. --- Biomedicine. --- Cancer Research. --- Medical microbiology --- Virology --- Virus diseases --- Fetus --- Placenta --- Pathology --- Genetic toxicology --- Epidemiology --- Oncology  . --- Public health --- Paediatrics --- Pediatric medicine --- Children --- Tumors --- Immunobiology --- Life sciences --- Serology --- Health and hygiene --- Microbiology --- Cancer research