Current Perspectives on Viral Disease Outbreaks - Epidemiology, Detection and Control

David Claborn

doi:10.5772/intechopen.92485

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David M. Claborn

American University of Iraq-Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq

Published 12 January 2022

Doi 10.5772/intechopen.92485

ISBN 978-1-83881-911-8

Print ISBN 978-1-83881-910-1

eBook (PDF) ISBN 978-1-83881-915-6

Number of pages 286

The COVID-19 pandemic has reminded the world that infectious diseases are still important. The last 40 years have experienced the emergence of new or resurging viral diseases such as AIDS, ebola, MERS, SARS, Zika, and others. These diseases display diverse epidemiologies ranging from sexual transmission to vector-borne transmission (or both, in the case of Zika). This book provides an overview of ...

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By Rajendran Manikandan, Mithilesh Singh, Vishal Chander, Gaurav Kumar Sharma, Suresh Bindu and Murali Dinesh

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2. Recombinant Human Interferon-Gamma: Prospects for the Treatment of Chronic Epstein-Barr Viral Infection

By Irina A. Rakityanskaya and Tatiana S. Ryabova

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3. A Narrative Review of the Measles Outbreak in North America and Globally

By Adekunle Sanyaolu, Chuku Okorie, Aleksandra Marinkovic, Kareem Hamdy, Stephanie Prakash, Risha Patidar, Abu Fahad Abbasi, Priyank Desai, Abdul Jan and Jasmine Mangat

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4. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndromes and Coronaviruses (SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV, and SARS-CoV-2)

By Bradley Fevrier

662

5. Chikungunya Neurological Manifestations: A Systematic Literature Review

By Jucier Gonçalves Júnior, Marília de Oliveira Bringel, Leonardo Rodrigues de Morais, Luiz Fernando de Castro Malinverno, Giselle Vasconcelos Liberato, Myllena Maria de Morais Pereira, Modesto Leite Rolim Neto, Leonardo de Oliveira Cavalcante and Estelita Lima Cândido

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6. Herpesviridae and microRNAs

By Anwesha Banerjee and Anupam Mukherjee

710

7. Immunological and Virological Failure among Individuals on Highly-Active Antiretroviral Therapy

By Hadush Negash, Brhane Berhe and Miglas Welay

543

8. Trained Immunity-Based Vaccines: A Ready-to-Act Strategy to Tackle Viral Outbreaks

By Laura Conejero, Paula Saz-Leal and José Luis Subiza

1,137

9. The MONITOR Ecosystem: A Digital Health Intervention for the Early Detection, Control, Follow-Up, and Management of COVID-19 in Mexico

By Miguel Betancourt-Cravioto, Jorge Falcón-Lezama, Fernando Rojas-Estrella, Rodrigo Saucedo-Martínez and Roberto Tapia-Conyer

757

10. The One-Health Approach to Infectious Disease Outbreaks Control

By Sima Ernest Rugarabamu

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11. Human Cultural Dimensions and Behavior during COVID-19 Can Lead to Policy Resistance and Economic Losses: A Perspective from Game Theory Analysis

By Tamer Oraby, Michael G. Tyshenko and Samit Bhattacharyya

837

12. Antiphospholipid Antibodies in Patients with COVID-19

By Cristiana Isabel Sieiro Santos

727

13. The Power of Computational Intelligence Methods in the Containment of COVID-19 Pandemic from Detection to Recovery

By Abdullahi Isa and Barka Piyinkir Ndahi

540

14. Docking-Based Screening of Cell-Penetrating Peptides with Antiviral Features and Ebola Virus Proteins as a Drug Discovery Approach to Develop a Treatment for Ebola Virus Disease

By Ehsan Raoufi, Bahar Bahramimeimandi, Mahsa Darestanifarahani, Fatemeh Hosseini, Mohammad Salehi-Shadkami, Hossein Raoufi and Reza Afzalipour

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15. Survey for a Vector of Zika Virus and Two Other Mosquito Species in Four Ecoregions of Missouri: An A Posteriori Analysis

By David M. Claborn, Sapana Subedi Chowi, Matthew Flint and Clement Acheampong

610

16. Frog Virology: Biosafety in an Experimental Farm

By Cláudia Luís Martins Batista, Alexandre Nuno Vaz Batista de Vieira e Brito and Júlio César Oliveira Lopes

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