Fluid Sterilization by Filtration

Fluid Sterilization by Filtration, Third Edition
by Peter R. Johnston (Author)

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Hardcover: 160 pages
Publisher: Informa Healthcare; 3 edition (December 15, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0849319773

Book Description
Completely revised and updated, Fluid Sterilization by Filtration, Third Edition discusses the use of gas and fluid filtration systems in sterilization technology. Packed with information useful to both the novice and the expert, it includes line-drawing illustrations, filtration setups, and plots of math functions illustrating fluid flows through filter media built from a random packing of solids. The book provides in-depth discussions of general filtration, specific membranes used in filtration, integrity testing, earlier filtration steps, and cross-flow filtration. It also includes a useful, updated appendix of worldwide contacts and many sources for equipment, supplies, and information.

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Social Ecology of Infectious Disease

Social Ecology of Infectious Diseases
by Kenneth H. Mayer (Editor), H. F. Pizer (Editor)

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Hardcover: 440 pages
Publisher: Academic Press; 1 edition (September 24, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0123704669

Book Description
Social Ecology of Infectious Diseases explores how human activities enable microbes to disseminate and evolve, thereby creating favorable conditions for the diverse manifestations of communicable diseases. Today, infectious and parasitic diseases cause about one-third of deaths and are the second leading cause of morbidity and mortality. The speed that changes in human behavior can produce epidemics is well illustrated by AIDS, but this is only one of numerous microbial threats whose severity and spread are determined by human behaviors. In this book, forty experts in the fields of infectious diseases, the life sciences and public health explore how demography, geography, migration, travel, environmental change, natural disaster, sexual behavior, drug use, food production and distribution, medical technology, training and preparedness, as well as governance, human conflict and social dislocation influence current and likely future epidemics.
* Provides essential understanding of current and future epidemics
* Presents a crossover perspective for disciplines in the medical and social sciences and public policy, including public health, infectious diseases, population science, epidemiology, microbiology, food safety, defense preparedness and humanitarian relief
* Creates a new perspective on ecology based on the interaction of microbes and human activities.

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T Cell Subsets, Volume 83: Cellular Selection, Commitment and Identity

T Cell Subsets, Volume 83: Cellular Selection, Commitment and Identity (Advances in Immunology)
by H. Cantor (Editor), Laurie Glimcher (Editor), Frederick W. Alt (Series Editor)

Product Details
Hardcover: 304 pages
Publisher: Academic Press; 1 edition (May 20, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0120224836

Book Description
This first thematic issue, of the Advances in Immunology series, highlights the remarkable new insights into the mechanisms that govern development and function of T cell lineages. Recent developments in the understanding of the genetic and epigenetic mechanisms that regulate development of the two major T cell lineages will have a fundamental impact on a number of research fields -immunology, cell biology, hematology and stem cell research. All of these groups have a vested interest in comprehending issues such as stem cell self renewal, progenitor plasticity, lineage commitment and cellular identity. Immunologists have a special interest in the mechanisms that allow selection of a T cell repertoire whose members integrate genetic information for T cell receptor, co-receptor and specialized immunologic function, since this process lies at the core of adaptive immunity.

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