Emerging Infections

by Scheld, W. Michael; Hughes, James M.; Murray, Barbara E.

• ISBN13: 9781555812423
• ISBN10: 1555812422
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-01-01
• Publisher: Amer Society for Microbiology

Summary

Emerging Infections 6 is the sixth of a series of books based on ICAAC Symposia on Emerging Infections. It provides a complete and updated discussion of new and emerging infectious diseases, covering both basic science and clinical topics. The editors are in the forefront of the scientific and clinical communities dealing with emerging pathogens. This book and the series will be valuable to a wide range of people working in microbiology, infectious diseases, epidemiology, public health, and clinical medicine.

Table of Contents

Contributors	ix
Foreword	xiii
Preface	xv
Acknowledgments	xvii
Hepatitis C Virus and Chronic Liver Disease	1	(12)
Beth P. Bell
Polio Reemerges in the Americas: a Vaccine-Derived Outbreak in Hispaniola in 2000 and 2001	13	(12)
Ciro A. de Quadros
Mauricio Landaverde
Olen Kew
Zacarias Garib
Jean Andre
Cristina Pedreira
Fernando Laender
Yellow Fever Vaccine-Associated Disease	25	(10)
Rachel S. Barwick
Anthony A. Marfin
Martin S. Cetron
Responding to Epidemics of Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever: Progress and Lessons Learned from Recent Outbreaks in Uganda, Gabon, and Congo	35	(24)
Daniel G. Bausch
Pierre E. Rollin
The Global Epidemiology of AIDS	59	(24)
Thomas C. Quinn
One Multidisciplinary Approach to AIDS in Africa: the Academic Alliance for AIDS Care and Prevention in Africa	83	(18)
W. Michael Scheld
Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli	101	(10)
James P. Nataro
Wound Botulism, Tetanus, and Necrotizing Fasciitis among Injecting Drug Users in California: the Clostridial Connection	111	(10)
Duc J. Vugia
S. Benson Werner
Celia J. I. Woodfill
Unexplained Severe Illness and Death among Injecting Drug Users in Scotland, Ireland, and England from April to August 2000	121	(12)
Marc Fischer
Anne Whitney
Syed Ahmed
Joe Barry
Jane Jones
Travel-Associated Fungal Infections	133	(10)
Rana A. Hajjeh
David W. Warnock
Human African Trypanosomiasis: a Reemerging Public Health Threat	143	(16)
Anne C. Moore
Raccoon Roundworm Infection (Baylisascariasis): a Zoonosis of Pediatric and Public Health Concern	159	(18)
William J. Murray
Can Surveillance for Unexplained Deaths Be Used as a Public Health Approach for Early Recognition of New Pathogens?	177	(14)
Marc Fischer
Rana A. Hajjeh
Andre N. Sofair
The International Emerging Infections Program in Thailand: an Early Report	191	(14)
Scott F. Dowell
Supamit Chunsuttiwat
Sonja J. Olsen
Pathom Sawanpranyalert
J. Mark Simmerman
Tamara L. Fisk
Kumnuan Ungchusak
Index	205