One Health by Ronald M Atlas

One Health by Ronald M Atlas

One Health

First Edition

Emerging infectious diseases are often due to environmental disruption, which exposes microbes to a different niche that selects for new virulence traits and facilitates transmission between animals and humans. Thus, health of humans also depends upon health of animals and the environment - a concept called One Health. This book presents core concepts, compelling evidence, successful applications, and remaining challenges of One Health approaches to thwarting the threat of emerging infectious disease.

Written by scientists working in the field, this book will provide a series of stories about how disruption of the environment and transmission from animal hosts is responsible for emerging human and animal diseases.

• Explains the concept of One Health and the history of the One Health paradigm shift.
• Traces the emergence of devastating new diseases in both animals and humans.
• Presents case histories of notable, new zoonoses, including West Nile virus, hantavirus, Lyme disease, SARS, and salmonella.
• Links several epidemic zoonoses with the environmental factors that promote them.
• Offers insight into the mechanisms of microbial evolution toward pathogenicity.
• Discusses the many causes behind the emergence of antibiotic resistance.
• Presents new technologies and approaches for public health disease surveillance.
• Offers political and bureaucratic strategies for promoting the global acceptance of One Health.

Maloy, Stanley: - Stanley Maloy is Dean of the College of Sciences and a Professor of Biology at San Diego State University. He obtained a PhD from the University of California Irvine and did postdoctoral work at the University of Utah before moving to the University of Illinois. He was also Director of the UIUC Biotechnology Center government. He was the first President of the American Society for Microbiology. Research in the Maloy lab has focused on bacterial genetics, genomics, and pathogenesis, with an emphasis on Salmonella, bacterial viruses, and emerging infectious diseases. He has also been involved in translational research projects focused on new vaccine delivery systems and nanoengineering approaches for the development of narrow spectrum antibiotics.

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ISBN 13	9781555818425
ISBN 10	1555818420
Title	One Health
Author	Ronald M Atlas
Series	Asm Books
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	American Society for Microbiology
Year published	2014-03-01
Number of pages	336
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.