RT Book, Section
A1 Hynes, Noreen A.
A1 Meyer, Diane
A2 Boulton, Matthew L.
A2 Wallace, Robert B.
SR Print(0)
ID 1182674348
T1 Agents of Infection and Principles of Transmission
T2 Maxcy-Rosenau-Last Public Health & Preventive Medicine, 16e
YR 2022
FD 2022
PB McGraw Hill
PP New York, NY
SN 9781259644511
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1182674348
RD 2024/04/19
AB Infectious  diseases  have  posed  significant  threats  to  the  public’s  health  for  millennia.  Despite  a  change  in  global  and  domestic  leading  causes  of  morbidity  and  mortality  with  a  shift  to  chronic  diseases,  infectious  diseases  continue  to  impose  a  high  burden  on  individual  and  population  health.1  Therefore,  public  health  practitioners  must  continue  to  attend  to  the  prevention  and  control  of  infectious  diseases.  Common  infectious  diseases  challenges  in  resource  rich  areas  include  influenza  (which  combined  with  pneumonia  is  the  eighth  leading  cause  of  death  in  the  United  States),  foodborne  illnesses,  healthcare-associated  infections,  sexually  transmitted  diseases,  hepatitis  C,  and  human  immunodeficiency  virus  (HIV)  infections.2  Although  these  same  infectious  diseases  abound  in  lower  resource  countries,  more  traditional  causes  of  infectious  disease-associated  morbidity  and  mortality  prevail  in  these  settings  including  tuberculosis  (TB),  malaria,  soil-transmitted  helminthic  (STH)  diseases,  and  diarrheal  and  acute  respiratory  infections  (particularly  in  the  under-5  age  group).  Adding  to  the  complexity  of  the  burden  of  infectious  diseases  is  the  identification  of  new  infectious  agents  or  the  re-emergence  of  those  in  previously  endemic  areas.  Demographic  migrations  among  humans  as  well  as  animals,  and  the  vectors  and  reservoirs  of  infectious  agents,  contribute  to  the  introduction  of  new  or  the  reintroduction  of  eliminated  diseases  as  population  threats  where  consideration  of  the  classic  epidemiological  triad  of  determinants—the  human  host,  the  agent,  and  the  human  environment—comes  into  play.3