Rabies, 3rd Edition

Key Features

• No other book covers rabies in the breadth and depth offered in this completely updated volume.
• The chapter authors include research scientists who are distinguished experts on their topics.
• Includes abundant illustrations, many in color, to show this disease’s unique horror.

Description

The ‘Bible’ on Rabies has been completely revised to address the latest scientific advances in the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and control of this fatal infectious virus, which continues to kill over 70,000 people each year.

Readership

Anyone involved in diagnosing, treating, controlling and preventing this disease including: physicians, public health advisors, epidemiologists, research scientists and veterinarians.

Rabies, 3rd Edition

1. History of Rabies Research
2. Rabies Virus
3. Molecular Epidemiology
4. Epidemiology
5. Rabies in Terrestrial Animals
6. Bat Rabies
7. Human Disease
8. Pathogenesis
9. Pathology
10. Diagnostic Evaluation
11. Rabies Serology
12. Immunology
13. Human Vaccines
14. Animal Vaccines
15. Next Generation of Rabies Vaccines
16. Public Health Management of Humans at Risk
17. Therapy of Human Rabies
18. Dog Rabies and Its Control
19. Rabies Control in Wild Carnivores
20. Future Developments and Challenges