Control Of Communicable Diseases In Man

Global presentation of communicable diseases. Intended as informative text for health personnel, as well as for public health administrators preparing regulations and legal requirements. Alphabetical arrangement by diseases. Standardized entries give synonyms, ICD-9 number, incubation period, period of communicability, susceptibility and resistance and methods of control. Contains list of explanatory definitions.

Each disease section includes: disease name, description of the clinical features of the disease, infectious agent, occurrence, disease reservoir, mode of transmission, incubation period, period of communicability, susceptibility and resistance, and methods of control.

The book is intended to provide a ready source of information on how to recognize a specific disease and how to manage patients so that they do not become sources for new cases and to provide guidance for their treatment to preserve lives. Author's abstract.

This manual considers communicable diseases globally. While it is a publication of the American Public Health Association, the presentation aims to be international. Toward this end, the numbers assigned for each disease by the World Health Association International Classification of Disease, 9th Revision (ICD-9) in the US Clinical Modification and the diseases titles have been used