Your Search Results(showing 19127)

    • Trusted Partner
    • Trusted Partner
      Humanities & Social Sciences
      August 2021

      Humour, subjectivity and world politics

      by Alister Wedderburn

    • Trusted Partner
      April 2001

      Strafverfahren gegen HIV-Infizierte.

      Unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Situation jugendlicher Beschuldigter.

      by Franck, Katharina

    • Trusted Partner
    • Trusted Partner
    • Trusted Partner
    • Trusted Partner
    • Trusted Partner
    • Trusted Partner
    • Trusted Partner
      Veterinary bacteriology, virology, parasitology
      September 2015

      Tuberculosis, Leprosy and other Mycobacterial Diseases of Man and Animals

      The Many Hosts of Mycobacteria

      by Edited by Harshini Mukundan, Mark Chambers, Ray Waters, Michelle Larsen

      Mycobacteria are bacterial pathogens which cause diseases in humans and non-human animals. This monograph will primarily cover the most important and widely researched groups of mycobacteria: members of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTC) and Mycobacterium leprae, across a wide range of host species. M. tuberculosis and M. bovis are particularly relevant with the increasing drug resistance and co-infection with HIV associated with M. tuberculosis and the possible cross-infection of badgers and cattle associated with M. bovis. This book will provide a reference for researchers working in different fields creating a work which draws together information on different pathogens, and by considering the diseases in a zoonotic context provides a One Health approach to these important groups of diseases.

    • Trusted Partner
    • Trusted Partner
      October 1989

      Durchführung von HIV-Tests ohne den Willen des Betroffenen.

      Pflicht und Befugnis zur Befundmitteilung aus der Sicht des Strafrechts.

      by Pfeffer, Hans

    • Trusted Partner
      Medical parasitology
      October 1998

      Sexually Transmitted Infections and AIDS in the Tropics

      by Edited by Om P Arya, Charles A Hart

      Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) are a major public health problem both in their own right and because of their link with HIV infection. This has elevated their control to an absolute priority throughout the world. In developing countries, which account for approximately 75% of the easily curable STI, as estimated by the WHO, and where sexually transmitted HIV infection has reached epidemic proportions, the need is most acute. Here AIDS is claiming hundreds of thousands of lives and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. In addition, because of inadequate resources, the sequelae of STI (e.g. infertility and some cancers) contribute greatly to ill-health in the tropics. This book written by acknowledged experts working or with experience in tropical countries, gives clear, concise and up to date knowledge and understanding on all aspects of Sexually Transmitted Infections. It should be useful for all those involved in the appropriate management and control of STI in various settings, ranging from peripheral and rural and urban health care centres to large hospitals. It will also be invaluable for students of tropical medicine, medical microbiology and genito-urinary medicine.

    • Trusted Partner
    • Trusted Partner
      Humanities & Social Sciences
      February 2026

      AIDS in Soviet Russia

      A story of deception, despair and hope

      by Rustam Alexander

      The first book to tell the shocking story of the AIDS crisis in Soviet Russia. Throughout the 1980s, as the world was grappling with the escalating crisis of AIDS, Soviet Russia continued to deny there was a problem. Arguing that the disease was limited to foreigners and 'immoral' groups, the government failed to take meaningful action, long past the point other countries had begun to recognise the full scale of the threat. In this ground-breaking book, Rustam Alexander tells the story of AIDS in Soviet Russia. Fixated on disinformation, censorship and the persecution of marginalised communities, the Soviet authorities wasted precious time, allowing the epidemic to strike at the very heart of the nation: its children. Yet, despite the government's failure, a number of brave journalists, doctors and nascent gay groups decided to take matters into their own hands and engage in full-fledged AIDS activism. Tracing the political and social response to AIDS in the final years of the Soviet era, Alexander sheds light on the devastating consequences of government inaction. He draws on personal stories, media reports and archival materials to provide a riveting account of the Russian people's fight against AIDS amid the tumultuous transformations of Gorbachev's perestroika.

    • Trusted Partner
      Biology, life sciences
      October 2014

      Plant-derived Pharmaceuticals

      Principles and Applications for Developing Countries

      by Rima Menassa, Karen McDonald, Shawn Chen, Inga Hitzeroth, Gregory Pogue, Pascal Drake, Andreas Günter Lössl, M A D'Aoust, David Aviezer, Elizabeth Loza Rubio, John Howard, Carla Marusic, Somen Nandi. Edited by Kathleen L. Hefferon.

      Describing recent developments in the engineering and generation of plants as production platforms for biopharmaceuticals, this book includes both vaccines and monoclonal antibodies. It has a particular emphasis on targeting diseases which predominate in less developed countries, encompassing the current state of technologies and describing expression systems and applications. This book also includes a variety of vaccine case studies, protecting against pervasive infectious diseases such as rabies, influenza and HIV.

    • Trusted Partner
      Science & Mathematics
      September 2019

      Plant-derived Pharmaceuticals

      Principles and Applications for Developing Countries

      by Kathleen L. Hefferon

      Describing recent developments in the engineering and generation of plants as production platforms for biopharmaceuticals, this book includes both vaccines and monoclonal antibodies. It has a particular emphasis on targeting diseases which predominate in less developed countries, encompassing the current state of technologies and describing expression systems and applications. This book also includes a variety of vaccine case studies, protecting against pervasive infectious diseases such as rabies, influenza and HIV.

    • Trusted Partner
      2019

      When a Virus Defeated Napoleon

      How nature makes history

      by Sebastian Jutzi

      Humans write history, but nature and coincidence often play a significant part in making history. The weather, volcanoes, celestial bodies, pathogens: all of them can influence historical events. In 413 BC, a lunar eclipse contributed to the defeat of the Athenians by Syracuse. In 1802, Napoleon’s soldiers on Saint-Domingue, the Haiti of today, were carried off in their thousands by yellow fever; the slave revolt that the troops had been sent to suppress succeeded, and the island declared itself independent in 1804. Nature not only makes history, it can also contribute to the understanding of history. For example, the route that the Carthaginians took over the Alps was only revealed recently by the discovery of ancient manure – not too surprising since Hannibal was accompanied by an estimated 10,000 horses. Sebastian Jutzi relates these and many other (hi)stories in a knowledgeable, entertaining and informative way – a treasure trove for anyone who wants to get to know history from an “unusual” perspective.

    Subscribe to our

    newsletter