Human Diseases

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Anchor Academic Publishing, 2017 - Medical - 152 pages
This book on “Human Diseases” is written with a view to meet curricular requirements of students at undergraduate and post graduate levels of Indian Universities. Diseases are illnesses impairing the normal physiological functioning of living organisms. The causative agents are virus, bacteria, protozoans, helminthes and others. The diseases chosen for this book are: measles, smallpox, chickenpox, AIDS, Ebola, Dengue, cholera, leprosy, tuberculosis, typhoid, malaria, amoebiasis, Diarrhoea, Filariasis, Cancer and Jaundice. The text describes causative agents, signs and symptoms, diagnosis, prevention, treatment, epidemiology and history of all 16 diseases. A table containing these factors has also been included for the convenience of readers to have an immediate idea about these human diseases.
 

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Table of Contents
1
SMALLPOX
7
AIDS
18
EBOLA
28
DENGUE
35
CHOLERA
46
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Sasmita Panda was born in 1982 and graduated in 2002 from Godavaris Mahavidyalaya, Banpur at Utkal University, Odisha. She completed her P.G. in Zoology in 2004 and her M. Phil. in 2013 from Khallikote College at Berhampur University. She has been teaching Zoology at different U.G. Colleges since 2006. Now serving as lecturer in zoology at Jatni College, Panda has published several articles in research journals of national and international repute. She has also co-authored books like “Employment Through Aquaculture”, “Biology of Wild Animals”, “Wild Animals of India” and “Earning Animals”, meant for students of undergraduate and post-graduate level. Additionally, she edited a book entitled “Water for Survival”. Dr. S.N. Padhi, born in 1953, obtained his B.Sc. degree in 1973, his P.G. in 1975 and his Ph.D. in 1981 at Berhampur University. He devoted his time in teaching and research in different Govt. and Non-Govt. Colleges of Odisha since 1978. He has completed different research projects and published numerous research articles as well as edited many souvenirs of State level and National-level seminars funded by U.G.C., OBA and other Agencies. He is a recipient of the Prof. Amulya Kumar Panda Royal Teacher Award 2011 instituted by the Royal College of Science and Technology, Bhubaneswar. Furthermore, he edited a book on “Application Of Biology for Self employment” and co-authored a book on Fishery entitled “Employment Through Aquaculture”, as well as “Biology of Wild Animals”, “Wild Animals of India” and “Earning Animals”, meant for students of undergraduate and post-graduate level. He has also edited a book entitled “Water for Survival”. He is a recipient of the Emeritus fellowship by the University Grants Commission.

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