Principles of Infectious Diseases: Transmission, Diagnosis, Prevention, and Control

Infectious disease control and prevention relies on a thorough understanding of the factors determining transmission. This article summarizes the fundamental principles of infectious disease transmission while highlighting many of the agent, host, and environmental determinants of these diseases tha...

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Autores principales: van Seventer, Jean Maguire, Hochberg, Natasha S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7150340/
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spelling pubmed-71503402020-04-13 Principles of Infectious Diseases: Transmission, Diagnosis, Prevention, and Control van Seventer, Jean Maguire Hochberg, Natasha S. International Encyclopedia of Public Health Article Infectious disease control and prevention relies on a thorough understanding of the factors determining transmission. This article summarizes the fundamental principles of infectious disease transmission while highlighting many of the agent, host, and environmental determinants of these diseases that are of particular import to public health professionals. Basic principles of infectious disease diagnosis, control, and prevention are also reviewed. 2017 2016-10-24 /pmc/articles/PMC7150340/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-803678-5.00516-6 Text en Copyright © 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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