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Written by physicians and scientists with expertise in this evolving area, Textbook of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 provides a coherent, readable, and clinically relevant review of the biology, epidemiology, pathophysiology, immunology, clinical features, current treatment, and prevention strategies for the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Using both a systemic and topic-based approach, it summarizes and clarifies the extensive literature published on SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19, includes a comprehensive bibliography, and provides answers to clinical questions at the point of care from multiple specialty perspectives. Includes dedicated chapters for pulmonary, cardiac, neurological, and oral manifestations of COVID-19.  Covers therapeutics and novel therapeutic targets of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19.  Addresses the diagnostic and management challenges of COVID-19 in the emergency department.  Discusses COVID-19 in special populations, including the effect of SARS-CoV-2 infection in pregnant mothers and to the fetus and newborn.  Provides a systematic overview and comparison of vaccines that are approved and in development.    Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

Historicizing Experiences of the Pandemic provides insights into the experience of the Covid19 pandemic using an archival collection of first-hand testimonies. These were collected as part of the project stemmed mainly from Britain, but they also include accounts from mainland Europe, the US, Australia, Scandinavia and Turkey. These accounts provide the basis for an interdisciplinary analysis of the experience of quarantine and pandemic life.

Drawing on international perspectives and research, this book explores the experiences of sex and sexuality in individuals and groups living with HIV in later life (50+).

Lyme disease is often misunderstood, misdiagnosed, and can be harder to treat than people might think. Anyone who has Lyme, or knows someone with Lyme, understands the complexity to this pernicious disease. This book reveals the tools you'll need to find happiness, fulfillment, and to finally get your life back. Christa has over 12 years of personal experience battling this invisible illness and wrote this book so others can apply her advice and jump start their own healing. CHRISTA'S STORYChrista silently suffered for more than a decade before getting correctly diagnosed with Lyme disease. She was bitten by the tick as a child, but her symptoms were mostly dormant until she turned 19 years old. After getting diagnosed at 29, she dove headfirst into treatments and for the past 2 years has been exploring conventional medicine as well as alternative therapies. Christa continues to heal but has made it her mission to help others side-step the trials she's faced and find happiness along the way! INSIDE THE BOOKTick Tock, It's LYME O'clock shares Christa's story, research, and survival tips while battling Lyme disease. This book is sectioned into four parts, each one addressing essential areas of the healing journey. · PART 1 - Christa's Story & Healing Journey · PART 2 - Navigating the Medical System · PART 3 - Navigating Day-to-Day Life with Lyme · PART 4 - To Our Friends & Allies Who Don't Have Lyme

Frontiers in Clinical Drug Research - Anti-Cancer Agents is a book series intended for pharmaceutical scientists, postgraduate students and researchers seeking updated and critical information for developing clinical trials and devising research plans in anti-cancer research. Reviews in each volume are written by experts in medical oncology and clinical trials research and compile the latest information available on special topics of interest to oncology and pharmaceutical chemistry researchers. The sixth volume of the book features reviews on these topics: - Immunomodulating Agents in The Treatment of Acute Myeloid Leukemia - Potential Natural Products for Prostate Cancer Management - Inhibition of Key Protein-Protein Interactions by Small Molecules for Cancer Drug Design - Efficacy of Hepatic Arterial Infusion Chemotherapy (HAIC) For Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma - Targeting Cancer Stem Cells: Implications in Health and Disease

The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has affected almost every part of the globe with millions of cases and over a million deaths. The pandemic has had a significant global economic impact and addressing it systematically requires significant efforts from researchers, healthcare workers and governments. The COVID-19 Pandemic: Epidemiology, Molecular Biology and Therapy covers relevant aspects of this viral pandemic including information about the SARS-CoV-2 pathogen (morphology, genome, proteins, structural protein genes, replication), global epidemiology, transmission, risk factors, clinical manifestation, management, host immune response, pathogenesis, diagnosis, therapeutic agents (antivirals, natural compounds) and vaccines. Readers will find basic and advanced knowledge about the disease organized into simple and easy-to-read chapters about the disease, making this book a handy and comprehensive reference for general readers, academicians and biology students, alike.

If a zombie pandemic broke out, turning your friends and neighbors into lurching hulks of the living dead, would you be prepared? Would you have what you need to protect your family and survive? And what if an ACTUAL pandemic broke out? (Note: It ALREADY HAS!)This entertaining and educational publication produced digitally in comic-book format by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services explains what you need to do to be safe, both now and in the future. This edition from Waking Lion Press makes the publication available in printed form for easy reference. Keep it in your bug-out bag!

Congenital Toxoplasmosis in Humans and Domestic Animals presents information about Toxoplasma gondii and its infection in neonates and different animals (cats, cattle, dogs, goats, pigs and sheep). Readers will have quick access to the pathophysiology, diagnosis, reproductive disorders (such as abortion, neonatal mortality and prematurity) and treatment of both human and veterinary toxoplasmosis. In addition, important aspects for control programs of congenital toxoplasmosis and for maternal and neonatal screening in such control programs are discussed. Thus readers will be better equipped to conduct prevention programmes and routine diagnosis of zoonotic infections related to T. gondii. This handbook is of interest to epidemiologists, doctors, veterinarians and public health specialists.

KOMPENDIUM I MIKROBIOLOGI OG INFEKTIONSMEDICIN2. udgaveDette kompendium er skrevet af de samme forfattere, som er ansvarlige for lærebogen Klinisk mikrobiologi og infektionsmedicin 5. udgave, FADL’s Forlag (2021). Kompendiet er en forkortet version af den store grundbog, hvor de vigtigste fakta er trukket frem.Bogen imødekommer et behov hos de studerende på de danske medicinske fakulteter for en komprimeret tekst og mnemotekniske oversigtsskemaer, som kan bruges til at få et hurtigt overblik over stoffet.Kompendiet er en uundværlig ledsager, bl.a. i forbindelse med eksamensforberedelserne.Emner:Generel bakteriologiSystematisk bakteriologiKlinisk bakteriologi, infektionshygiejne og antibiotikabehandlingGenerel virologiSystematisk virologiMykologiParasitologiInfektionsmedicinske principper og strategier