Control of Communicable Diseases in Human and in Animal Populations : : 70th Anniversary Year of the Birth of Professor Rick Speare (2 August 1947? 5 June 2016) / / edited by Jorg Heukelbach.

• TeilnehmendeR: Heukelbach, Jorg,
• Place / Publishing House: Basel, Switzerland : : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute,, [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (222 pages)

This book is dedicated to the memory of Prof. Rick Speare, whose academic contribution included high-level research on zoonotic diseases and public health in general, of human and veterinary medical interest, following the One Health approach. He has dedicated much of his work to Aboriginal communities. In 2016, Rick was tragically killed in a car crash while driving to a seminar at James Cook University in Queensland, Australia. The book contains a total of 17 papers on communicable diseases in tropical environments, many of them published by Rick's former colleagues and co-researchers. Some papers contain material collected together with Rick, which for the first time is published here.

Table of Contents

About the Special Issue Editor -- Control of Communicable Diseases in Human and in Animal Populations: 70th Anniversary of the Year of the Birth of Professor Rick Speare (2 August 1947-5 June 2016) -- Paediatric Strongyloidiasis in Central Australia. -- Application of PCR-Based Tools to Explore Strongyloides Infection in People in Parts of Northern Australia -- The Health Effects of Strongyloidiasis on Pregnant Women and Children: A Systematic Literature Review -- The Unique Life Cycle of Strongyloides stercoralis and Implications for Public Health Action -- A Community-Directed Integrated Strongyloides Control Program in Queensland, Australia -- Argument for Inclusion of Strongyloidiasis in the Australian National Notifiable Disease List -- Immunisation Rates of Medical Students at a Tropical Queensland University -- The History of Bancroftian Lymphatic Filariasis in Australasia and Oceania: Is There a Threat of Re-Occurrence in Mainland Australia? -- An Overview of Brucellosis in Cattle and Humans, and its Serological and Molecular Diagnosis in Control Strategies -- Infection in Two Free-Ranging Lumholtz's Tree-Kangaroo (Dendrolagus lumholtzi) from the Atherton Tablelands, Queensland -- Scabies in Resource-Poor Communities in Nasarawa State, Nigeria: Epidemiology, Clinical Features and Factors Associated with Infestation -- Cross-Cultural, Aboriginal Language, Discovery Education for Health Literacy and Informed Consent in a Remote Aboriginal Community in the Northern Territory, Australia -- Exotic Parasite Threats to Australia's Biosecurity-Trade, Health, and Conservation -- A Survey of Intestinal Parasites of Domestic Dogs in Central Queensland -- Hospitalizations and Deaths Associated with Diarrhea and Respiratory Diseases among Children Aged 0-5 Years in a Referral Hospital of Mauritania -- Diagnostic Performance of Kato Katz Technique and Point-of-Care Circulating Cathodic Antigen Rapid Test in Diagnosing Schistosoma mansoni Infection in HIV-1 Co-Infected Adults on the Shoreline of Lake Victoria, Tanzania -- Epidemiology and Spatiotemporal Patterns of Leprosy Detection in the State of Bahia, Brazilian Northeast Region, 2001-2014.