Publisher's Synopsis
Written by an international, interdisciplinary team of physicians, veterinarians, virologists, medical microbiologists, and parasitologists, this book covers zoonotic pathogens as agents of emergence and reemergence of zoonotic diseases, opportunistic zoonotic infections, risks of iatrogenic transmission and xenotransplantation, imported zoonotic infections, food-borne zoonoses, transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, and of warfare.