Microbial Zoonoses and Sapronoses

The book can be used by students of human and veterinarymedicine, including Ph.D. students, and for biomedicinescientists and medical practitioners. Serious human diseasesand sapronoses still appear that are either entirely new, newlyrecognized, resurging, increasing in incidence, spatiallyexpanding, with a changing range of hosts and/or vectors, withchanging manifestations or antibiotic resistance. Thecollective term for those diseases is (re)emerging infections,and as much as 75% of them represent zoonoses and sapronoses(the rest are anthroponoses). Short characteristics are givenof infectious and epidemic process, the role of environmentalfactors, epidemiological surveillance and control. Emphasis islaid on ecological aspects (haematophagous vectors andvertebrate hosts; habitats of the agents; natural focality ofdiseases). Individual diseases are briefly characterized(taxonomy; source of human infection; transmission mode; humandisease; diagnostics; therapy; geographic distribution).