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9781555811419

Emerging Infections 2

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  • ISBN13:

    9781555811419

  • ISBN10:

    1555811418

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1998-09-01
  • Publisher: Amer Society for Microbiology

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Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville. Derived from presentations given at the 1997 Interscience Conference on Antimicro- bial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC). Date and site are not cited. Halftone illustrations. Softcover.

Table of Contents

Contributors ix
Foreword xi
Preface xiii
Acknowledgments xv
New-Variant Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease and Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy: the Strengthening Etiologic Link between Two Emerging Diseases
1(16)
Lawrence B. Schonberger
Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome in the Americas
17(48)
C. J. Peters
Emergence Mechanisms in Yellow Fever and Dengue
65(16)
Scott B. Halstead
Human Herpesvirus 8 and Kaposi's Sarcoma
81(24)
Thomas J. Spira
Harold W. Jaffe
The Association of Chalmydia pneumoniae and Atherogenesis
105(20)
Michael Dunne
Cholera and Vibrio cholerae: New Challenges from a Once and Future Pathogen
125(20)
Robert V. Tauxe
Timothy J. Barrett
Reemerging Infections: Recent Developments in Pertusis
145(14)
Erik L. Hewlett
Epidemic Leptospirosis Associated with Pulmonary Hemorrhage in Nicaragua, Other Recent Outbreaks, and Diagnostic Testing: Issues and Opportunities
159(10)
Bradley A. Perkins
Plague as an Emerging Disease
169(16)
David T. Dennis
Cyclospora: Whence and Where to?
185(10)
David A. Relman
The Resurgence of Malaria
195(18)
Yao-Lung Tsai
Donald L. Krigstad
Immigrants, Imaging, and Immunoblots: the Emergence of Neurocysticercosis as a Significant Public Health Problem
213(30)
Peter M. Schantz
Patricia P. Wilkins
Victor C. W. Tsang
The North American Liver Fluke, Metorchis conjunctus
243(14)
J. Dick MacLean
Opportunistic Infections (OIs) as Emerging Infectious Diseases: Challenges Posed by OIs in the 1990s and Beyond
257(16)
Jonathan E. Kaplan
Debra L. Hanson
Jeffrey L. Jones
Charles B. Beard
Dennis D. Juranek
Clare A. Dykewicz
Food-Borne Diseases in the Global Village: What's on the Plate for the 21st Century
273(22)
David L. Swerdlow
Sean F. Altekruse
From Prions to Parasites: Issues and Concerns in Blood Safety
295(16)
Rima F. Khabbaz
Mary Chamberland
CDC's Global Efforts To Address Emerging Diseases
311(12)
James W. LeDuc
James M. Hughes
Index 323

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