Medical-decision support applications provider Gideon Informatics, Inc., US, has announced a partnership with publisher O'Reilly Media, Inc. to distribute a new series of 411 Gideon e-books on infectious diseases. The e-books can be read on Amazon Kindle, Apple iPad, mobile devices and personal computers. The series, said to make it easier for medical professionals to stay up to date on developments in the field of infectious diseases, provides a comprehensive compilation of disease data for every country in the world.
The new collection features one series of e-books dedicated to infectious disease data by country, and another series that details the 'global status' of each disease. It encompasses over 95,000 pages of text, supplemented by 30,000 graphs and 200,000 clickable linked references.
The country series of Gideon e-books includes a review of the status of every infectious disease - for each of 200 countries, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. The 'global status' series summarises the clinical features and epidemiology of every individual disease, with an entire book dedicated to each condition - from Acanthocephalan worms to Yersiniosis. The Gideon e-book series also includes entire e-books for lesser-studied countries, such as Andorra, Djibouti and Kiribati; and diseases such as Coltiviruses, Dicrocoeliasis and Australo-Pacific Arboviruses.
Additional titles in the series include: Infectious Diseases and Bioterrorism and Infectious Diseases of the World. Gideon Online also offers a free e-book on Infectious Diseases of Haiti (314 pages, 36 graphs), which has already been downloaded over 10,000 times. It is available for free download or on Amazon.com for $1, for the US: Kindle version.
In addition to all diseases which are endemic to a given country, each book includes all published data regarding imported diseases and infection among expatriates. The entire series will be updated annually.
O'Reilly Media's Digital Distribution Service provides e-books in multiple formats to online book retailers and channels including Amazon, Apple iTunes, Book Glutton, eBookPie and Barnes & Noble. The Gideon e-book series is available through these channels and directly on the company's website at www.gideononline.com/ebooks.
The data in these e-books are based on the Gideon Online database, which incorporates all relevant information from text books, peer-review journals, Health Ministry reports and ProMed, supplemented by an ongoing electronic search of the medical literature. The company's e-books are seen to complement its web application by expanding easy access to Gideon's content without a subscription or Internet access.
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