The Business of Disease

This volume explores the scientific and policy implications of the impacts of global environmental change on infectious disease emergence, establishment, and spread. The book examines the observed and potential influence of environmental factors, acting both individually and in synergy, on infectious disease dynamics.

This book contains chapters of significant and updated materials on what we know and what we lack and need in better understanding of Trypanosoma cruzi - a parasite that never dies - and the consequences of Chagas disease as one of the most important neglected parasitic diseases threatening the global health and wellbeing.

This book contains excellent review chapters in the field of gut microbiome. These chapters present a critical review about some clinically important changes in the gut microbiome in the development of some human diseases and therapeutic possibilities (liver disease, cardiovascular diseases, brain diseases, gastrointestinal diseases). The book brings to attention the essential role of gut microbiome in keeping our life healthy.