Routledge Handbook of Infectious Diseases: A Geographical Guide (HB)

The new edition of this unique resource, grounded on an understanding that our global world is more connected than it has ever been, provides an essential survey of infectious diseases based on both clinical presentation and geographical area of exposure.

This book is split into three main sections. The first section offers an overview of the geopolitics of infectious diseases, highlighting the channels through which a disease can spread from one region or country to another, including air travel, shipping or migration. The second section provides a comprehensive overview of each region, highlighting the infectious diseases common to that part of the world. The final section includes a chapter examining new infections of concern, and a chapter discussing infectious diseases in the context of global climate change.

Thoroughly updated with the latest clinical data and featuring contributions from leading scholars and clinicians in the field, this book is a timely and important resource for practitioners and scholars across Clinical Medicine, Epidemiology and Public Health.

About the Author

Eskild Petersen is an infectious disease specialist working in public health at Statens Serum Institut and clinical infectious diseases, Aarhus University Hospital. He was for five years chair of the European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases emerging infectious diseases task force. He served for twenty two years as moderator for ProMED and ten years as Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Infectious Diseases. He is part of the PandemiX Center, Roskilde University.

Lin H. Chen directs the Mount Auburn Hospital Travel Medicine Center, is Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Past President of International Society of Travel Medicine. She served on CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices Working Groups, is site director for the GeoSentinel Surveillance and Research Network and the Global Travel Epidemiology Network. Her clinical research focuses on travelers’ health, including vector-borne diseases, immunizations, emerging infections, and cross-border healthcare.

Patricia Schlagenhauf is Professor at the University of Zürich, Head of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Travellers’ Health and Scientific Group Leader. Her research focuses on travellers’ malaria, emerging vector-borne infections and infectious disease epidemiology. Active in surveillance of travel related illness, she is the Director of the European network EuroTravNet since 2022 and the Zürich GeoSentinel Site Director since 1998. She is Editor-in-Chief of New Microbes New Infections.