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Infectious Diseases:

In Context

Infectious Diseases:

In Context

Brenda Wilmoth Lerner & K. Lee Lerner, Editors

VOLUME 1

AIDS TO LYME DISEASE

Infectious Diseases: In Context

Brenda Wilmoth Lerner and K. Lee Lerner, Editors

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Contents

Contributors ......................................................................... xv

Introduction ....................................................................... xvii

A Special Introduction by Stephen A. Berger, M.D. ........................ xix

About the Set ....................................................................... xxi

About the Book .................................................................. xxiii

Organization of the Encyclopedia ............................................... xx

Using Primary Sources .......................................................... xxvii

Glossary ............................................................................. xxix

Chronology .......................................................................... lix

VOLUME 1

African Sleeping Sickness (Trypanosomiasis) ..................................... 1

AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome) ................................. 7

AIDS: Origin of the Modern Pandemic ........................................ 18

Airborne Precautions ............................................................... 23

Alveolar Echinococcosis ............................................................. 26

Amebiasis ............................................................................ 29

Angiostrongyliasis ................................................................... 32

Animal Importation ............................................................... 35

Anisakiasis ........................................................................... 38

Anthrax .............................................................................. 41

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