The Genesis of Methicillin-Resistant \u3ci\u3eStaphylococcus aureus\u3c/i\u3e: A Modern Day Leprosy and Hospital Menace [PDF]
, 2009 Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus leads to more deaths than AIDS and resists most antibiotics.
Gillen, Alan L.
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Studying the bactericidal effect of commercial disinfectants on Brucella
Инфекция и иммунитетPathogens, particularly Brucella spp., pose a serious threat to human and animal health. In the complex of anti-epidemic and sanitary-hygienic measures aimed at preventing infectious diseases, chemical disinfection plays an important role.
N. V. Zharinova +4 more
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No. 24: Spaces of Vulnerability: Migration and HIV/AIDS in South Africa [PDF]
, 2002 Seventy per cent of the 36 million people infected worldwide with HIV live in Sub-Saharan Africa and within this region the countries of Southern Africa are the worst affected.
Crush, Jonathan +3 more
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, 2017 Robots have the potential to be a game changer in healthcare: improving health and well-being, filling care gaps, supporting care givers, and aiding health care workers.
Riek, Laurel D.
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Health and Wealth Accumulation: Evidence from Nineteenth-Century America [PDF]
This study explores how the health of Union Army recruits while in the service affected their wealth accumulation through 1870. Wartime wounds and exposure to combat, measured by the company mortality from wounds, had strong negative effects on ...
Chulhee Lee
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Ebola the Enemy: How the U.S. Media Militarized the 2014 Ebola Epidemic [PDF]
, 2017 The 2014 Ebola outbreak shocked the world. In western Africa, the scale of the tragedy was surprising. But equally surprising was the excessively fearful response of the international public to a disease that most public health experts agreed was ...
Chamness, Sarah
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Frontiers in Sustainable Food SystemsThe study presents a quantitative assessment of the biological risk level of occurrence and spread of infectious and parasitic potato diseases based on the parameters of pathogenicity and resistance in the host organism.
Alexey Dorokhov +5 more
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Lawrence O. Gostin on Biosecurity Policy: Are We Safer Today? [PDF]
, 2008 World-acclaimed authority Lawrence O. Gostin analyzes biosecurity policy since 9/11. He begins with the question: Are we safer now? Then comes a review of biosecurity legislation, followed by discussion of planning to deal with specific diseases and the ...
Gostin, Lawrence O.
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The \u3cem\u3eLancet\u3c/em\u3e Commission on Global Health Law: The Transformative Power of Law to Advance the Right to Health [PDF]
, 2019 A new report by The Lancet-O’Neill-Georgetown University Commission on Global Health and the Law shows how law can fulfill the global pledge of the human right to health, while “leaving no one behind.” I call this “global health with justice.” We need ...
Gostin, Lawrence O.
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The Promising Viral Threat to Bacterial Resistance: The Uncertain Patentability of Phage Therapeutics and the Necessity of Alternative Incentives [PDF]
, 2014 Bacteriophages, or “phages,” are a category of highly adept and adaptable viruses that can infect and kill bacteria. With concerns over the burgeoning antibiotic-resistance crisis looming in recent years, scientists and policymakers have expressed a ...
Todd, Kelly
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