Infectious Diseases

List of contributors, viii
 
Foreword to the first edition by Alan J. Magill (deceased), xv
 
Foreword to the second edition by Jay S. Keystone, xvii
 
Preface, xix
 
Envoi, xxi
 
1 Historical overview of global infectious diseases and geopolitics, 1
Francis. E.G. Cox and Frank J. Bia
 
2 Nontraditional infectious diseases surveillance systems, 12
Davidson H. Hamer, Kamran Khan, Matthew German, and Lawrence C. Madoff
 
3 Air travel.which infectious disease control measures are worthwhile?, 25
Karen J. Marienau
 
4 Infectious illnesses on cruise and cargo ships, 35
Joanna J. Regan, J. Scott Vega, and Clive M. Brown
 
5 Microbes on the move: prevention, required vaccinations, curtailment, outbreak, 45
Patricia Schlagenhauf-Lawlor, Giles Poumerol, and Francisco Santos-O'Connor
 
6 Diagnostic tests and procedures, 55
Eskild Petersen and Tom Boyles
 
7 Central Africa, 78
Gerd D. Burchard and Martin P. Grobusch
 
8 East Africa: Madagascar and Indian Ocean Islands, 93
Philippe Gautret and Philippe Parola
 
9 Eastern Africa, 104
Andreas Neumayr and Christoph Hatz
 
10 North Africa, 124
Philippe Gautret, Nadjet Mouffok, and Philippe Parola
 
11 Southern Africa, 137
Marc Mendelson, Olga Perovic, and Lucille Blumberg
 
12 West Africa, 154
Boubacar Maiga and Patrick Ayeh-Kumi
 
13 East Asia, 167
Bin Cao, Fei Zhou, and Mikio Kimura
 
14 South Central Asia, 185
Holy Murphy, Gulzhan Abuova, and Prativa Pandey
 
15 South-east Asia, 203
Daniel H. Paris and Nicholas J. White
 
16 Western Asia and the Middle East, 220
Jaffar A. Al-Tawfiq, Seif S. Al-Abri, and Ziad A. Memish
 
17 Eastern Europe, 235
Natalia Pshenichnaya, Malgorzata Paul, and Alexander Erovichenkov
 
18 Northern Europe, 257
Birgitta Evengard, Audrone Marcinkute, and Eskild Petersen
 
19 Southern Europe, 269
Francesco Castelli, Androula Pavli,

Eskild Petersen MD, DMSc, DTM&H, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Denmark, and Senior Consultant, Department of Infectious Diseases, The Royal Hospital, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman
 
Lin H. Chen MD, FACP, FASTMH, Director of the Travel Medicine Center at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
 
Patricia Schlagenhauf-Lawlor PhD, FFTM, RCPSS (Glasg), FISTM, Senior Scientist and Professor, University of Zürich, WHO Collaborating Centre for Travellers' Health, Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute, Zürich, Switzerland