Published October, 2010
By Madeleine C. Thomson, Ricardo Garcia-Herrera and Martin Beniston
Publisher: Springer
Series: Advances in Global Change Research
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Results presented at the Wengen conference make clear that the science and art of integrating climate knowledge into the control of climate sensitive diseases on a year to year time frame, as well as careful assessments of the potential impacts of climate change on health outcomes over longer time frames, is advancing rapidly.

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Published October, 2010
By Thandavarayan Ramamurthy, S.K. Bhattacharya and T. Ramamurthy
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Infectious Disease
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Though cholera is an ancient disease, its perennial occurrence in several parts of the world has attracted many researches to find ways and means to combat the disease.

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Published October, 2010
By Morikazu Onji and Sk. Md. Fazle Akbar
Publisher: Springer (Springer Verlag, Japan)
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Great advances have taken place in basic research and the clinical usefulness of dendritic cells (DCs). Researchers in the field are optimistic that DCs, already in use for treating patients with cancers, soon can be used therapeutically for patients with chronic infections, autoimmune diseases, and allergic manifestations.

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Published October, 2010
By Y. Watanabe, Brigitta Evengard, Benjamin H. Natelson, L.A. Jason, Hirohiko Kuratsune, B. Evengard, B.H. Natelson and H. Kuratsune
Publisher: Springer (Springer Verlag, Japan)
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To provide a forum for discussion, the International Conference on Fatigue Science was organized, the first being held in 2002 in Sandhamn, Sweden, and the second in 2005 in Karuizawa, Japan.

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Published October, 2010
By Jordi Rello, Emilio Diaz and Alejandro Rodriguez
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
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It is widely acknowledged that the severe inflammatory response syndrome/severe sepsis paradigm fails to stratify sepsis patients adequately. The proposed PIRO framework facilitates evaluation of factors that are important in the pathogenesis of severe sepsis and in the development of treatment strategies.

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Published October, 2010
By Jordi Rello and Marcos I. Restrepo
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
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Therefore, the goal of Sepsis: New Strategies is to review novel targets to be considered in patients with severe sepsis and to assess new developments for patients with sepsis originating in the respiratory tract.

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Published October, 2010
By Onder Ergonul and Chris A. Whitehouse
Publisher: Springer
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This volume covers major aspects of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) and the virus which causes it. Chapters are written by leading experts in their fields and detail historical, public health, epidemiological, and clinical aspects of CCHF and the genetics and molecular biology of the virus.

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Published October, 2010
By Jean-Pierre Changeux and Peter Palese
Publisher: Springer
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Ulrich Desselberger, Gif-sur-Yvette/Cambridge.Infection of a naive (non-immune) host with a virus elicits an immediate response which results in a cascade of changes in the host, including an interferon response (innate immunity).

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Published October, 2010
By T.J. Franklin, George Alan Snow and Trevor J. Franklin
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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The subject is one of major interest in basic microbiology and infectious diseases and the book is a known classic.

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Published October, 2010
By A.L. Baert, Maurice C. Haddad, Mohamed E. Abd El Bagi, Jean C. Tamraz and JEAN TAMRAZ
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
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With parasitic diseases increasing worldwide it's vitally important that radiologists in particular stay up to date with developments. In this brilliantly useful volume, the authors cover the imaging findings for parasitic diseases that can affect the human body using modern imaging equipments.

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