1st Edition
Routledge Handbook of Infectious Diseases A Geographical Guide
The new edition of this unique resource, ground on an understanding that our global world is more connected than it has ever been, provides an essential survey of infectious diseases based on both clinical presentation and geographical area of exposure.
The book is split into three main sections. The first sections offers an overview of the geopolitics of infectious diseases, highlighting the channels through which disease can spread from one region or country to another, including air travel, shipping or migration. The second section provides a comprehensive overview of each region, highlighting the infectious diseases common to that part of the world. The final section includes a chapter examining new infections of concern, and a chapter discussing infectious diseases in the context of global climate change.
Thoroughly updated through the latest clinical data, and featuring some of the leading scholars and clinicians in the field, this is a timely and important resource for practitioners and scholars across Clinical Medicine, Epidemiology and Public Health.
Section I
1. Historical Overview of Global Infectious Diseases and Geopolitics
Jessica J. Tuan, Francis E. G. Cox, Frank J. Bia
2. Non-traditional Infectious Diseases Surveillance Systems
Davidson H. Hamer, Lawrence C. Madoff, Patricia Schlagenhauf, Kara Sewalk, John Brownstein, Michael Libman, Marjorie P. Pollack
3. Air Travel − Which Infectious Disease Control Measures are Worthwhile
Francisco Alvarado Ramy, Shannon Gearhart, Alida Gertz, Dipti Patel
4. Infectious Illnesses on Cruise and Cargo Ships
Kara Tardivel, Stefanie White, Joanna J. Regan, Clive M. Brown
5. Travel-related Infections: Prevention, Outbreak, Curtailment
Patricia Schlagenhauf, Xanthi Andrianou, Gianfranco Spiteri
6. Migration and the Geography of Disease
Francesca F. Norman, Rogelio López-Vélez, Marta González Sanz, José-Antonio Pérez-Molina
Section II
7. Central Africa
Martin P. Grobusch, Bayode R. Adegbite, Francine Ntoumi
8. Eastern Africa, Madagascar and Indian Ocean Islands
Andreas Neumayr, Christian Kositz, Esther Künzli
9. North Africa
Rehab M. Elsaid Tash, Najet Mouffok, Amine Merzoug, Ayman Allam, Laila Elkadi, Maysaa Abdallah Saeed, Monkez Yousef, Fatma Amer
10. Southern Africa
Olga Perovic, Nectarios Papavarnavas, Lucille Blumberg
11. West Africa
Boubacar Maiga, Patrick Ayeh-Kumi
12. East Asia
Chi-Tai Fang, Mugen Ujiie, Joon Sup Yeom
13. South Central Asia
Anupa Thampy, Priscilla Rupali, Gulzhan Abuova, Prativa Pandey
14. South-East Asia
Daniel H. Paris, Nicholas J. White
15. Western Asia and the Middle East
Jaffar A. Al-Tawfiq, Seif Alabri, Ziad A. Memish
16. Eastern Europe
Natalia Pshenichnaya, Malgorzata Paul, Corneliu Petru Popescu
17. Nordic and Baltic Countries
Anu Kantele, Audrone Marcinkute, Carsten Schade Larsen, Heli Siikamäki, Danguole Vaznaisiene, Steen Villumsen
18. Southern Europe
Francesco Castelli, Androula Pavli, Sofia R. Valdoleiros, Mario Poljak
19. Western Europe
Abraham Goorhuis, Giorgia Caruana, Ashley D. Otter
20. The Caribbean
Larry I. Lutwick, Alana Pinheiro Alves
21. Central America
Larry I. Lutwick, Alexandre M. S. Carvalho, Nelson Ivan Agudelo Higuita
22. South America
Rodrigo Nogueira Angerami, Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales
23. Northern America
Barbra M. Blair, Philip R. Fischer, Michael Libman, Lin H. Chen
24. Australia, New Zealand
Sarah McGuinness, Karin Leder
25. Pacific Island Countries and Territories
Sarah McGuinness, Colleen Lau, Karin Leder
26. Arctic and Antarctica
Anders Koch, Michael G. Bruce, Kami Kandola
Section III
27. Emerging Infections
Mary E. Wilson, Eskild Petersen, Marion P. Koopmans
28. Climate Change and the Geographic Distribution of Infectious Diseases
Aisha N. Khatib, Wasin Matsee, Jan C. Semenza
Biography
Eskild Petersen is an infectious disease specialist working in public health at Statens Serum Institut and clinical infectious diseases, Aarhus University Hospital. He was for five years chair of the European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases emerging infectious diseases task force. He served for twenty two years as moderator for ProMED and ten years as Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Infectious Diseases. He is part of the PandemiX Center, Roskilde University.
Lin H. Chen directs the Mount Auburn Hospital Travel Medicine Center, is Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Past President of International Society of Travel Medicine. She served on CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices Working Groups, is site director for the GeoSentinel Surveillance and Research Network and the Global Travel Epidemiology Network. Her clinical research focuses on travelers’ health, including vector-borne diseases, immunizations, emerging infections, and cross-border healthcare.
Patricia Schlagenhauf is Professor at the University of Zürich, Head of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Travellers’ Health and Scientific Group Leader. Her research focuses on travellers’ malaria, emerging vector-borne infections and infectious disease epidemiology. Active in surveillance of travel related illness, she is the Director of the European network EuroTravNet since 2022 and the Zürich GeoSentinel Site Director since 1998. She is Editor-in-Chief of New Microbes New Infections.
