TY  - BOOK
AU  -  Heymann, David L.
TI  - Control of communicable diseases manual
SN  - 9780875531892
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Washington, DC
PB  - American Public Health Association, 
KW  - Communicable diseases-prevention
N1  - Includes index
N2  - 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)
ER  -