Main description:

Genetics and Evolution of Infectious Diseases, Second Edition, discusses the constantly evolving field of infectious diseases and their continued impact on the health of populations, especially in resource-limited areas of the world. Students in public health, biomedical professionals, clinicians, public health practitioners, and decisions-makers will find valuable information in this book that is relevant to the control and prevention of neglected and emerging worldwide diseases that are a major cause of global morbidity, disability, and mortality.

Although substantial gains have been made in public health interventions for the treatment, prevention, and control of infectious diseases during the last century, in recent decades the world has witnessed a worldwide human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) pandemic, increasing antimicrobial resistance, and the emergence of many new bacterial, fungal, parasitic, and viral pathogens.

The economic, social, and political burden of infectious diseases is most evident in developing countries which must confront the dual burden of death and disability due to infectious and chronic illnesses.

Contents:

1. Recent Developments in the Definition and Official Names of Virus Species 2. A Theory-Based Pragmatism for Discovering and Classifying Newly Divergent Species of Bacterial Pathogens 3. Population Structure of Pathogenic Bacteria 4. Epidemiology and Evolution of Fungal Pathogens in Plants and Animals 5. Clonal Evolution 6. Coevolution of Host and Pathogen 7. Microbes as Tracers of Past Human Demography and Migrations 8. Phylogenetic Analysis of Pathogens 9. Evolutionary Responses to Infectious Disease 10. Infectious Disease Genomics 11. Proteomics and Host-Pathogen Interactions: A Bright Future? 12. The Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance 13. Modern Morphometrics of Medically Important Arthropods 14. Evolution of Resistance to Insecticide in Disease Vectors 15. Genetics of Major Insect Vectors 16. Multilocus Sequence Typing of Pathogens: Methods, Analyses, and Applications 17. Next-Generation Sequencing, Bioinformatics, and Infectious Diseases 18. Genomics of Infectious Diseases and Private Industry 19. Current Progress in the Pharmacogenetics of Infectious Disease Therapy 20. Genetic Exchange in Trypanosomatids and Its Relevance to Epidemiology 21. Genomic Insights Into the Past, Current, and Future Evolution of Human Parasites of the Genus Plasmodium 22. Integrated Genetic Epidemiology of Chagas Disease 23. Adaptive Evolution of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex to Different Hosts 24. The Evolution and Dynamics of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus 25. Origin and Emergence of HIV/AIDS 26. Evolution of SARS Coronavirus and the Relevance of Modern Molecular Epidemiology 27. Ecology and Evolution of Avian Influenza Viruses