Control of communicable diseases manual. 

 - 19th ed. 
 - Washington, DC :  American Public Health Association,   2008. 
 - xxvi, 746 p. :  ill. ;  19 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes index. 
<br/><br/> A presentation of communicable diseases in the global context, the book is intended as an informative text for health personnel, as well as for public health administrators preparing regulations and legal requirements. Arranged alphabetically by disease, its standardized entries give synonyms, ICD-9 number, identification, infectious agent, occurrence, reservoir, transmission, incubation period, period of communicability, susceptibility and resistance, and methods of control. There is a list of explanatory definitions. The 2008 edition includes a chapter on Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780875531892 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Communicable diseases-prevention
<br/><br/><label>National Library of Medicine Call No.: </label>WC 100 DC 2008