Sunday, February 1, 2009

Guide to Antimicrobial Use in Animals

Guide to Antimicrobial Use in Animals
by Luca Guardabassi (Editor), Lars Bogø Jensen (Editor), Hilde Kruse (Editor)

Product Details
* Hardcover: 240 pages
* Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 1 edition (May 2, 2008)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 1405150793

Book Description
The first book to offer practical guidelines on the prudent and rational use of antimicrobials in animals. Drawing on multidisciplinary expertise to offer independent scientific advice on a controversial area that is crucial to both human health and animal welfare. The earlier general chapters cover issues such as human health risks and the problems of resistance to antimicrobial drugs. The later specific chapters are dedicated to particular groups of animals.
* Has an emphasis on preserving the efficacy of antimicrobial drugs that are clinically important in human medicine
* Covers both companion animals and food animals, including aquaculture
* Suitable for veterinary practitioners working in small and large animal medicine, aquaculture and animal production, as well as veterinary students, academics and researchers. It will also be of interest to those more generally involved in veterinary public health and antimicrobial resistance.

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The Conquest of Malaria

The Conquest of Malaria: Italy, 1900-1962 (Hardcover)
by Frank Snowden (Author)

Product Details
* Hardcover: 304 pages
* Publisher: Yale University Press; 1 edition (January 24, 2006)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0300108990

Book Description
"With this book, Snowden achieves two difficult goals. He demonstrates how important malaria was to the political and social history of Italy to the mid-twentieth century, an aspect of the country’s course underappreciated by its historians. Perhaps more importantly, he has crafted a marvelously detailed case study in the control of malaria, that shows how closely intertwined are the environmental, medical, social and political features of a landscape that nurtures the disease. Whether describing the temporary Fascist victory over malaria in the Pontine Marshes or the deliberate creation of malarial epidemics by retreating Nazis, Snowden’s lively account convinces the reader that as malaria goes, so goes Italy. This is a first rate, valuable book that belongs on the shelf of historian and malariologist alike

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