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This book provides a comprehensive overview of pertussis - also known as whooping cough. The first part discusses the evolution the genus Bordetellae and the molecular epidemiology of B. pertussis, while the following chapters focus on the role of B. pertussis virulence factors in infection and disease and on the mechanisms of the immune response to infection and vaccination. The book also explores the prevention and control of the disease as well as its clinical management, with the finally section addressing vaccination, from improved immunization strategies to novel vaccines. Pertussis remains one of the most poorly controlled vaccine-preventable diseases around the globe. Universal vaccination has dramatically reduced its incidence but has failed to bring it completely under control. In recent decades, changes in pertussis epidemiology have been noted, likely related to the use of acellular pertussis vaccines, which in many countries have replaced older-generation, whole-cell pertussis vaccines. Several years after their introduction, it is becoming apparent that immunity conferred by acellular vaccines wanes more rapidly than expected. Unlike whole-cell vaccines, acellular vaccines, while protecting against the disease, do not seem to prevent colonization and transmission. Increasing incidence among adolescents and adults makes them a reservoir for transmission to unimmunized infants, who in turn are at risk of severe disease and death. This book is a valuable resource for researchers and clinicians in the field of medical microbiology, vaccine research and infectious diseases.

Medical microbiology. --- Bacteriology. --- Infectious diseases. --- Medical Microbiology. --- Infectious Diseases. --- Microbiology --- Whooping cough. --- Pertussis --- Cough --- Gram-negative bacterial infections --- Respiratory infections --- Malalties infeccioses --- Contagi --- Malalties contagioses --- Malalties encomanadisses --- Malalties transmissibles --- Microbiologia mèdica --- Salut pública --- Abscessos --- Desinfecció --- Malalties bacterianes --- Malalties emergents --- Malalties infeccioses en els infants --- Malalties d'origen alimentari --- Malalties parasitàries --- Malalties per prions --- Malalties víriques --- Micosi --- Zoonosi

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Eye --- Care and hygiene. --- Sight-saving --- Ull --- Higiene --- Àsia del Sud --- Cura personal --- Higiene personal --- Medicina preventiva --- Banys --- Bellesa personal --- Descans --- Desinfecció --- Educació física --- Higiene bucal --- Higiene dental --- Higiene naval --- Puericultura --- Salut sexual --- Sanejament --- Tractaments de bellesa --- Ulls --- Cap --- Oftalmologia --- Aparell lacrimal --- Conjuntiva --- Còrnia --- Cristal·lí --- Escleròtica --- Fons de l'ull --- Humor vitri --- Moviments oculars --- Parpelles --- Retina --- Úvea --- Nistagme --- Oftalmopaties --- Òptica fisiològica --- Visió --- Àsia meridional --- Orient --- Bangla Desh --- Bhutan --- Índia --- Maldives --- Nepal --- Pakistan --- Sri Lanka

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The book emphasizes role of functional microbes in soil to improve fertility and plant health in agro-ecosystem. In this compendium main emphasis is on occurrence and distribution of microbial communities, In situ active microbial quorum in rhizosphere, metratranscriptomics for microflora- and fauna, and fnctional diversity in rhizosphere. The book also highlights the importance of PGPRs in rhizosphere, root endotrophic microbes, functional niche under biotic stress, functional niche under abiotic stress, functional root derived signals, as well as functional microbe derived signals. Approaches deployed in metatranscriptomics, and molecular Tools used in rhizosphere are also discussed in detail. The book presents content is useful for students, academicians, researchers working on soil rhizosphere and as a policy document on sustenance of agriculture.

Microbiology. --- Genetics. --- Plant physiology. --- Microbial ecology. --- Ecology . --- Genetics and Genomics. --- Plant Physiology. --- Microbial Ecology. --- Ecology. --- Balance of nature --- Biology --- Bionomics --- Ecological processes --- Ecological science --- Ecological sciences --- Environment --- Environmental biology --- Oecology --- Environmental sciences --- Population biology --- Environmental microbiology --- Microorganisms --- Ecology --- Microbiology --- Botany --- Plants --- Physiology --- Embryology --- Mendel's law --- Adaptation (Biology) --- Breeding --- Chromosomes --- Heredity --- Mutation (Biology) --- Variation (Biology) --- Microbial biology --- Rhizosphere. --- Soil microbiology. --- Roots (Botany) --- Soils --- Soil micro-organisms --- Soil microorganisms --- Soil biology --- Soilborne plant diseases --- Bacteriology --- Soil microbiology --- Rizosfera --- Microbiologia dels sòls --- Bacteriologia dels sòls --- Bacteriologia del sòl --- Microbiologia del sòl --- Microorganismes dels sòls --- Biologia dels sòls --- Microbiologia --- Fauna dels sòls --- Desinfecció de sòls --- Sòls --- Arrels (Botànica)

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This book discusses the historical context, country experience, and best practices that led to eliminating infectious diseases from the WHO’s South-East Asia Region, such as malaria, lymphatic filariasis, yaws, trachoma, and mother-to-child HIV in the mid-twentieth and twenty-first century. The UN Sustainable Development Goals (3.3) targets to end AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and neglected tropical diseases and combat hepatitis, water-borne diseases and other communicable diseases by 2030. In this context, this book is of high significance to countries from the SEA region and around the globe. It helps create national strategies and action plans on infectious disease elimination and thus attaining SDG 3.3. This is an open access book.

Diseases. --- Human beings --- Illness --- Illnesses --- Morbidity --- Sickness --- Sicknesses --- Medicine --- Epidemiology --- Health --- Pathology --- Sick --- Diseases --- infectious diseases in South East Asia --- lymphatic filariasis --- communicable diseases --- neonatal tetanus --- elimination of Yaws --- elimination of Malaria --- polio-free regions --- UN Sustainable Development Goals --- Malalties infeccioses --- Sud-est asiàtic --- Contagi --- Malalties contagioses --- Malalties encomanadisses --- Malalties transmissibles --- Microbiologia mèdica --- Salut pública --- Abscessos --- Desinfecció --- Malalties bacterianes --- Malalties emergents --- Malalties infeccioses en els infants --- Malalties d'origen alimentari --- Malalties parasitàries --- Malalties per prions --- Malalties víriques --- Micosi --- Zoonosi --- Àsia del sud-est --- Àsia Sud-oriental --- Sud-est d'Àsia --- Orient --- Filipines --- Indonèsia --- Indoxina --- Mekong (Àsia : Curs d'aigua) --- Singapur --- Timor Oriental --- Communicable diseases --- Health planning --- Prevention.

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This book mainly focuses on advances made over the past 10 years on the exposure, metabolism, transformation, toxicity, molecular mechanism and biomarkers of emerging chemicals in humans. Emerging chemicals' pollution is a hot issue in the field of environmental health. Emerging chemicals refer to a class of compounds widely existing in the environment and potentially harmful to the ecological environment and human health. They are also the preferred substances for future environmental control. The list of emerging chemicals include human drugs and personal care products (PPCPs), endocrine disruptors (EDC), persistent organic pollutants (POPs), veterinary drugs and nanomaterials. However, the environmental and health hazard characteristics of most emerging chemicals are not clear. The aim of this book is to stimulate further research in new directions by providing novel and provocative insights into the exposure assessment and potential mechanisms of emerging chemicals in humans. It also offers a state-of-the-art report on recent discoveries concerning emerging chemicals and where the field is going.

Pharmacology. --- Public health. --- Environmental health. --- Pharmacology/Toxicology. --- Public Health. --- Environmental Health. --- Environmental quality --- Health --- Health ecology --- Public health --- Environmental engineering --- Health risk assessment --- Community health --- Health services --- Hygiene, Public --- Hygiene, Social --- Public health services --- Public hygiene --- Social hygiene --- Human services --- Biosecurity --- Health literacy --- Medicine, Preventive --- National health services --- Sanitation --- Drug effects --- Medical pharmacology --- Medical sciences --- Chemicals --- Chemotherapy --- Drugs --- Pharmacy --- Health aspects --- Environmental aspects --- Physiological effect --- Pollution --- Physiological effect. --- Contaminants persistents --- Salut pública --- Higiene pública --- Higiene social --- Salubritat --- Sanitat --- Sanitat pública --- Salut --- Serveis socials --- Abastament d'aigua --- Assistència sanitària --- Avaluació del risc per la salut --- Cementiris --- Contaminació --- Contaminació de l'aigua --- Cribratge --- Desinfecció --- Enginyeria sanitària --- Enterrament --- Epidemiologia --- Higiene ambiental --- Higiene escolar --- Higiene industrial --- Higiene rural --- Higiene veterinària --- Hospitals --- Inspecció dels aliments --- Infermeria de salut pública --- Malalties professionals --- Malalties infeccioses --- Manipulació dels aliments --- Medicina social --- Planificació sanitària --- Salut mental --- Salut mundial --- Salut pública dental --- Serveis sanitaris --- Soroll --- Veterinària preventiva --- Legislació sanitària --- Medicina preventiva --- Política sanitària --- Protecció del consumidor --- Sanejament --- Substàncies químiques persistents --- Contaminants