Emerging Infections

by Scheld, W. Michael; Armstrong, Donald; Hughes, James M.

• ISBN13: 9781555811211
• ISBN10: 1555811213
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-01-01
• Publisher: Amer Society for Microbiology

Summary

Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville. First in an annual series which will report on presentations of the International Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. Reviews new and emerging infectious diseases. For researchers. 35 contributors, 24 U.S.

Table of Contents

Contributors	ix
Foreword	xiii
Preface	xv
Acknowledgments	xix
Epidemic Dengue and Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever: a Global Public Health Problem in the 21st Century	1	(14)
Duane J. Gubler
Hemorrhagic Fevers: How They Wax and Wane	15	(12)
C. J. Peters
Recurrent Emergence of Venezuelan Equine Encephalomyelitis	27	(16)
Scott C. Weaver
Flying Foxes, Horses, and Humans: a Zoonosis Caused by a New Member of the Paramyxoviridae	43	(16)
Keith Murray
Bryan Eaton
Peter Hooper
Linfa Wang
Mark Williamson
Peter Young
The Reemergence of Rabies	59	(22)
Cathleen A. Hanlon
Charles E. Rupprecht
Emerging Human Ehrlichioses: Recently Recognized, Widely Distributed, Life-Threatening Tick-Borne Diseases	81	(12)
David H. Walker
The Reemergence of Severe Group A Streptococcal Disease: an Evolutionary Perspective	93	(32)
Donald E. Low
Benjamin Schwartz
Allison McGeer
Patterns in the Emergence of Epidemic Meningococcal Disease	125	(12)
Jay D. Wenger
Bradley A. Perkins
Escherichia coli O157:H7	137	(10)
Patricia M. Griffin
Thomas G. Boyce
Bartonella: an Emerging Human Pathogen	147	(18)
Jane E. Koehler
Epidemic Diphtheria in the Newly Independent States of the Former Soviet Union	165	(12)
Melinda Wharton
Iain R. B. Hardy
Charles Vitek
Tanja Popovic
Roland W. Sutter
A Convergence of Tick-Transmitted Diseases within the Lyme Disease Transmission Cycle	177	(14)
David H. Persing
Helicobacter pylori and Gastroduodenal Disorders	191	(16)
Ernst N. Kuipers
Martin J. Blaser
The Changing Nature of Nontuberculous Mycobacteriology	207	(14)
Timothy E. Kiehn
Mary H. White
Emerging Fungal Pathogens: Evolving Challenges to Immunocompromised Patients	221	(12)
Thomas J. Walsh
Emerging Enteric Protozoa: Cryptosporidium, Cyclospora, and Microsporidia	233	(14)
Richard W. Guerrant
Nathan M. Thielman
Emerging and Reemerging Infections: the Critical Societal Determinants, Their Mitigation, and Our Responsibilities	247	(14)
Donald B. Louria
Addressing the Challenges of Emerging Infectious Diseases: Implementation of the Strategy of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention	261	(10)
James M. Hughes
Index	271