The Population Biology of Tuberculosis / / Christopher Dye.
Despite decades of developments in immunization and drug therapy, tuberculosis remains among the leading causes of human mortality, and no country has successfully eradicated the disease. Reenvisioning tuberculosis from the perspective of population biology, this book examines why the disease is so...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Monographs in Population Biology ;
54 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (296 p.) :; 85 halftones. 7 tables. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- CHAPTER 1. Tuberculosis Undefeated
- CHAPTER 2. Concepts and Models
- CHAPTER 3. Risk and Variation
- CHAPTER 4. Interventions and Control
- CHAPTER 5. Strains and Drug Resistance
- CHAPTER 6. TB and HIV/AIDS
- CHAPTER 7. Elimination and Eradication
- CHAPTER 8. Populations and Social Diseases
- APPENDIX 1. Derivation of the Basic Case Reproduction Number and Epidemic Doubling Time
- APPENDIX 2. Formal Description of the Standard Model
- References
- Index
- Backmatter