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9781555811976

Emerging Infections

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  • ISBN13:

    9781555811976

  • ISBN10:

    1555811973

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-12-01
  • Publisher: Amer Society for Microbiology

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Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville. A text based on the presentations given at the 1999 session of the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. Aimed at physicians and policy-makers. Text stresses the importance of detection, response to, and control of infections worldwide. Softcover.

Table of Contents

Contributors ix
Foreword xi
Preface xiii
Acknowledgments xv
Respiratory Syncytial Virus: Microbe for All Ages, Mimic of Maladies Many
1(16)
Caroline Breese Hall
Emergence of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Drug Resistance
17(6)
Douglas D. Richman
Toroviruses: Emerging Pathogens of Humans and Animals
23(10)
Martin Petric
Raymond Tellier
The Human Enteric Caliciviruses: an Expanded Role for Old Viruses
33(12)
Roger I. Glass
Tomie Ando
Jacqueline Noel
Rebecca Fankhauser
Joseph Bresee
Umesh Parashar
Gael Belliot
Stephan S. Monroe
Monkeypox: an Emerging Infection for Humans?
45(24)
Joel G. Breman
Sequence-Based Methods for Pathogen Discovery: the Complex Associations of Microbes, Microbial Sequences, and Host
69(14)
David A. Relman
Listeriosis
83(24)
Laurence Slutsker
Mary C. Evans
Anne Schuchat
Group B Streptococci: from Emerging Infection to Prevention Success Story
107(14)
Anne Schuchat
Stephanie Schrag
Helicobacter Species other than Helicobacter pylori: Emerging Pathogens in Humans and Animals
121(16)
James G. Fox
Noncholera Vibrios
137(12)
Nicholas A. Daniels
Mary C. Evans
Patricia M. Griffin
Cryptosporidium parvum: Minuscule but Mighty
149(16)
Cynthia L. Sears
Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Related Opportunistic Infections in the Era of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy
165(22)
Henry Masur
Countermeasures to the Reemergence of Smallpox Virus as an Agent of Bioterrorism
187(14)
Peter B. Jahrling
Gary M. Zaucha
John W. Huggins
Are Hemorrhagic Fever Viruses Practical Agents for Biological Terrorism?
201(10)
C. J. Peters
Index 211

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