Communicable Disease Control Handbook

by Hawker, Jeremy; Begg, Norman; Blair, Iain; Reintjes, Ralf; Weinberg, Julius; Hawker, Jeremy

• ISBN13: 9780632056491
• ISBN10: 0632056495
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-09-01
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Summary

A concise and practical handbook for all those who have responsibility for the identification and control of infectious disease: Written in a clear and concise style, combining science, attention to detail and an essentially practical approach, Covers basic principles of communicable disease control and health protection, major syndromes, control of individual infections, main services and activities, organizational arrangements for all EU countries and sources of further advice, All chapters updated in line with recent changes in epidemiology, new guidelines for control and administrative changes, New or expanded chapters on immunization queries, smallpox, SARS, West Nile virus, deliberate release/bioterrorism and on-call response.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Abbreviations	p. xi
Introduction
How to use this book	p. 3
Basic concepts in the epidemiology and control of infectious disease	p. 5
Health protection on-call	p. 10
Common topics
Meningitis and meningism	p. 17
Gastrointestinal infection	p. 20
Community-acquired pneumonia	p. 28
Rash in pregnancy	p. 29
Rash and fever in children	p. 34
Illness in returning travellers	p. 37
Sexually transmitted infections	p. 38
Jaundice	p. 42
Infection in the immunocompromised	p. 43
Blood-borne viral infections	p. 45
Vaccine queries	p. 49
Diseases
Amoebic dysentery	p. 55
Anthrax	p. 56
Bacillus cereus	p. 59
Botulism	p. 60
Brucellosis	p. 65
Campylobacter	p. 67
Chickenpox and shingles (varicella-zoster infections)	p. 71
Chlamydia pneumoniae	p. 73
Chlamydia psittaci	p. 75
Chlamydia trachomatis (genital)	p. 77
Cholera	p. 78
CJD (Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease) and other human transmissible spongiform encephalopathies	p. 80
Clostridium difficile	p. 82
Clostridium perfringens	p. 84
Coxsackievirus infections	p. 86
Cryptosporidiosis	p. 88
Cyclosporiasis	p. 93
Cytomegalovirus	p. 93
Dengue fever	p. 94
Diphtheria	p. 95
Encephalitis, acute	p. 98
Enterococci, including glycopeptide-resistant enterococci	p. 98
Epstein-Barr virus	p. 100
Escherichia coli O157 (and other E. coli gastroenteritis)	p. 101
Giardiasis	p. 106
Gonorrhoea, syphilis and other acute STIs	p. 108
Hantavirus	p. 111
Head lice	p. 112
Helicobacter pylori	p. 114
Hepatitis A	p. 115
Hepatitis B	p. 118
Hepatitis C	p. 122
Delta hepatitis	p. 125
Hepatitis E	p. 125
Herpes simplex	p. 126
Haemophilus influenzae type b	p. 127
HIV	p. 129
Influenza	p. 135
Japanese B encephalitis	p. 141
Kawasaki syndrome	p. 141
Legionellosis	p. 142
Leprosy	p. 145
Leptospirosis	p. 146
Listeria	p. 148
Lyme disease	p. 150
Malaria	p. 151
Measles	p. 154
Meningococcal infection	p. 156
Molluscum contagiosum	p. 161
MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus)	p. 162
Mumps	p. 165
Mycoplasma	p. 166
Norovirus	p. 168
Ophthalmia neonatorum	p. 170
Paratyphoid fever	p. 171
Parvovirus B19 (fifth disease)	p. 173
Plague	p. 174
Pneumococcal infection	p. 176
Poliomyelitis	p. 179
Q fever	p. 180
Rabies	p. 182
Relapsing fever	p. 184
Respiratory syncytial virus	p. 185
Ringworm	p. 187
Rotavirus	p. 190
Rubella	p. 192
Salmonellosis	p. 193
SARS (Severe acute respiratory syndrome)	p. 197
Scabies	p. 200
Shigella	p. 203
Smallpox	p. 206
Staphylococcal food poisoning	p. 208
Streptococcal infections	p. 209
Tetanus	p. 212
Threadworms	p. 213
Tick-borne encephalitis	p. 214
Toxocara	p. 214
Toxoplasmosis	p. 215
Tuberculosis	p. 216
Tularaemia	p. 225
Typhoid fever	p. 226
Typhus, other rickettsial infections and ehrlichiosis	p. 228
Vibrio parahaemolyticus	p. 230
Viral haemorrhagic fevers	p. 232
Warts and verrucae	p. 235
West Nile virus	p. 236
Whooping cough	p. 237
Yellow fever	p. 240
Yersiniosis	p. 241
Other hazards	p. 243
Helminths	p. 243
Protozoa	p. 251
Fungi	p. 251
Rare viruses	p. 251
Bites, stings and venoms	p. 251
Chemical food-borne illness	p. 263
Services and organisations
Administrative arrangements for communicable disease control	p. 267
Surveillance of communicable disease	p. 271
Managing infectious disease incidents and outbreaks	p. 275
Community infection control	p. 282
Healthcare-associated infection	p. 285
Risks to and from healthcare workers	p. 290
Co-ordination of immunisation services	p. 295
Co-ordination of services for HIV infection in the UK	p. 298
Services for tuberculosis control	p. 299
Travel health and illness in returning travellers	p. 302
Non-infectious environmental hazards	p. 305
Managing acute chemical incidents	p. 310
Managing acute radiation incidents	p. 313
Deliberate release of biological, chemical or radiological agents	p. 315
Port health	p. 324
Media relations	p. 325
Clinical governance and audit	p. 327
Communicable disease control in Europe
Introduction	p. 333
Austria	p. 335
Belgium	p. 336
Cyprus	p. 339
Czech Republic	p. 340
Denmark	p. 342
Estonia	p. 344
Finland	p. 345
France	p. 347
Germany	p. 349
Greece	p. 351
Hungary	p. 352
Ireland	p. 353
Italy	p. 354
Latvia	p. 356
Lithuania	p. 358
Luxembourg	p. 358
Malta	p. 360
The Netherlands	p. 361
Norway	p. 363
Poland	p. 364
Portugal	p. 366
Slovakia	p. 368
Slovenia	p. 369
Spain	p. 371
Sweden	p. 372
Switzerland	p. 374
United Kingdom	p. 376
Appendices
Useful addresses and telephone numbers	p. 379
Guidance documents and books	p. 380
Index	p. 385
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