Table of contents for No Germs Allowed: How to Avoid Infectious Diseases at Home and on the Road

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Introduction: At risk

Part One: The infections of daily living

1 The common cold

2 Strep throat and other strep infections

3 Urinary tract infections

4 Infections of the skin

Part Two: Infections you get from your environment

5 Lyme disease and other tickborne infections

6 Food poisoning

7 Health hazards of travel

8 Pneumonia and Legionnaires' disease 1

Infections you get from others

9 Tuberculosis

10 Sexually transmitted diseases

11 Hepatitis

12 HIV infection and AIDS

Part Three: Persons with unique risks

13 Special persons and special situations

14 How to avoid infections if you have HIV

15 If you are pregnant

16 In the hospital

Part Four: Twenty-first-century infections

17 Emerging infections

18 Bioterrorism

Appendixes

A Vaccination schedules

B Antibiotics to prevent infective endocarditis

C Rabies

Bibliography

Index