SUMMARY The Gram-negative bacterium Yersinia pestis is responsible for deadly plague, a
zoonotic disease established in stable foci in the Americas, Africa, and Eurasia. Its …

The field of palaeomicrobiology is dramatically expanding thanks to recent advances in high-
throughput biomolecular sequencing, which allows unprecedented access to the …

This book is an introductory text to the methods and tools that are nowadays widely used
and accepted in the mathematical epidemiology literature. It is intended to start from a …

The first edition of Ancient Medicine was the most complete examination of the medicine of
the ancient world for a hundred years. The new edition includes the key discoveries made …

Salmonella species are a group of Gram-negative enterobacteria and known human
pathogens in developing as well as industrialized countries. Despite significant advances in …

Lord Byron described Greece as great, fallen, and immortal, a characterization more apt
than he knew. Through most of its long history, Greece was poor. But in the classical era …

Genetically monomorphic bacteria contain so little sequence diversity that sequencing a few
gene fragments yields little or no information. As a result, our understanding of their …

Drawing on New Testament studies and recent scholarship on the expansion of the
Christian church, Gary B. Ferngren presents a comprehensive historical account of medicine …

An analysis of infectious disease as a threat to national security that examines the
destabilizing effects of the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic, HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa …

In 430 bc, a plague struck the city of Athens, which was then under siege by Sparta during
the Peloponnesian War (431‐404 bc). In the next 3 years, most of the population was …