case studies in infectious disease field epidemiology Dworkin, Mark S. editor text xxu Sudbury, Mass Jones and Bartlett Publishers c2010 monographic eng

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xxiii, 456 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. How an outbreak is investigated / Mark S. Dworkin -- Leptospirosis at the bubbles / Kenrad E. Nelson -- Cholera for a dime / Paul A. Blake -- Legionnaire's disease : investigation of an outbreak of a new disease / Steven Thacker -- The investigation of toxic shock syndrome in Wisconsin, 1979-1980 and beyond / Jeffrey P. Davis -- The early days of AIDS in the United States : a personal perspective / Harold W. Jaffe -- Verify the diagnosis : a pseudo-outbreak of amebiasis in Los Angeles County / Frank Sorvillo -- Measles among religiously exempt persons / Charles E. Jennings -- An outbreak of fulminant hepatitis B in a medical ward in Israel / Ronald C. Hershow -- What went wrong? An ancient recipe associated with botulism in modern Egypt / J. Todd Weber -- Controlling an outbreak of shigellosis with a community-wide intervention in Lexington County, Kentucky / Janet Mohle-Boetani -- Pork tapeworm in an orthodox Jewish community : arriving at a biologically plausible hypothesis / Peter Schantz, Mary Bartlett -- The massive waterborne outbreak of cryptosporidium infections, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1993 / Jeffrey P. Davis -- A community outbreak of hepatitis a involving cooperation between public health, the media, and law enforcement in Iowa, 1997 / Patricia Quinlisk ... [et al.] -- Tracking a syphilis outbreak through cyberspace / Jeffrey D. Klausner -- Eschar : the story of the New York City department of health 2001 anthrax investigation / Don Weiss, Marci Layton -- Ebola hemorrhagic fever in Gabon : chaos to control / Daniel G. Bausch -- Whipping whooping cough in Rock Island County, Illinois / Mark S. Dworkin -- Emergency yellow fever mass vaccination in post-civil war Liberia / Gregory Huhn -- A mumps epidemic : Iowa, 2006 / Patricia Q editor, Mark S. Dworkin. Includes bibliographical references and index. Epidemiology Case studies Disease Outbreaks Personal Narratives Epidemiologic Methods Personal Narratives RA652.4 .O98 2010 9780763751432 (pbk.) 076375143X (pbk.) 2008051156 150218 20150218151049.0