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9781555813772

Emerging Infections

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  • ISBN13:

    9781555813772

  • ISBN10:

    1555813771

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2006-10-30
  • Publisher: Amer Society for Microbiology

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Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville. Provides updates on emerging infections. Topics include avian influenza A virus, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), monkeypox virus, emergence of novel retroviruses, smallpox vaccination, leishmaniasis in American soldiers, and more. For researchers. Softcover.

Table of Contents

Contributors ix
Foreword xiii
Preface xvii
Acknowledgments xix
Avian Influenza A (H5N1) Virus
1(22)
Justin R. Ortiz
Timothy M. Uyeki
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
23(28)
J. S. M. Peiris
Y. Guan
L. L. M. Poon
V. C. C. Cheng
J. M. Nicholls
K. Y. Yuen
Human Metapneumovirus
51(18)
Bernadette G. van den Hoogen
Albert D. M. E. Osterhaus
Ron A. M. Fouchier
Changing Patterns of Respiratory Viral Infections in Transplant Recipients
69(16)
Michael G. Ison
Jay A. Fishman
Monkeypox Virus: Insights on Its Emergence in Human Populations
85(14)
Inger Damon
West Nile Virus
99(22)
Lyle R. Petersen
Chandipura Encephalitis: a Newly Recognized Disease of Public Health Importance in India
121(18)
Akhilesh Chandra Mishra
Emergence of Novel Retroviruses
139(14)
Nathan D. Wolfe
William M. Switzer
Walid Heneine
Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus
153(28)
Susan E. Crawford
Susan Boyle-Vavra
Robert S. Daum
Carbapenem Resistance in Klebsiella pneumoniae and Other Members of the Family Enterobacteriaceae
181(18)
Simona Bratu
John Quale
The Emerging Role of Klebsiellae in Liver Abscess
199(16)
Joseph Rahimian
Jin-Town Wang
Conjugate Vaccines as Probes To Define the Burden of Pneumococcal and Haemophilus influenzae Type b Pneumonia as Well as the Role of Viruses in the Pathogenesis of Pneumonia
215(10)
Keith P. Klugman
Shabir A. Madhi
Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis and Crohn's Disease
225(22)
Saleh A. Naser
Najih A. Naser
Zygomycosis
247(36)
Corina E. Gonzalez
Charalampos Antachopoulos
Shmuel Shoham
Thomas J. Walsh
Emerging Food- and Waterborne Protozoan Diseases
283(26)
Michael J. Arrowood
Ynes R. Ortega
Lihua X. Xiao
Ronald Fayer
Multidrug-Resistant Acinetobacter Infections in U.S. Military Personnel, 2003 to 2005
309(16)
Kepler A. Davis
Kimberly A. Moran
Leishmaniasis in American Soldiers: Parasites from the Front
325(18)
Naomi E. Aronson
Smallpox Vaccination: a Review of Adverse Events for Contemporary Health Care Providers
343(24)
Vincent A. Fulginiti
Index 367

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