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Emerging infections 4 /

"Emerging Infections 4 is the fourth of an annual 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 scien...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: American Society for Microbiology
Other Authors: Scheld, W. Michael (Editor), Craig, William A. (William Alexander), 1939- (Editor), Hughes, James M., 1945- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : ASM Press, ©2000.
Subjects:
Communicable diseases.
Communicable diseases > Epidemiology.
Communicable Diseases > epidemiology
Communicable Diseases
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments 1 : Respiratory Syncytial Virus: Microbe for All Ages, Mimic of Maladies Many
  • Caroline Breese Hall 2 : Emergence of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Drug Resistance
  • Douglas D. Richman 3 : Toroviruses: Emerging Pathogens of Humans and Animals
  • Martin Petrie, Raymond Tellier 4 : The Human Enteric Caliciviruses: an Expanded Role for Old Viruses
  • Roger I. Glass, Tamie Ando, Jacqueline Noel, Rebecca Fankhauser, Joseph Bresee, Umesh Parashar, Gael Belliot, Stephan S. Monroe, Roger I. Glass 5 : Monkeypox: an Emerging Infection for Humans?
  • Joel G. Breman 6 : Sequence-Based Methods for Pathogen Discovery: the Complex Associations of Microbes, Microbial Sequences, and Host
  • David A. Relman 7 : Listeriosis
  • Laurence Slutsker, Mary C. Evans, Anne Schuchat 8 : Group B Streptococci: from Emerging Infection to Prevention Success Story
  • Anne Schuchat, Stephanie Schrag 9 : Helicobacter Species other than Helicobacter pylori: Emerging Pathogens in Humans and Animals
  • James G. Fox 10 : Noncholera Vibrios
  • Nicholas A. Daniels, Mary C. Evans, Patricia M. Griffin 11 : Cryptosporidium parvum: Minuscule but Mighty
  • Cynthia L. Sears 12 : Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Related Opportunistic Infections in the Era of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy
  • Henry Masur 13 : Countermeasures to the Reemergence of Smallpox Virus as an Agent of Bioterrorism
  • Peter B. Jahrling, Gary M. Zaucha, John W. Huggins 14 : Are Hemorrhagic Fever Viruses Practical Agents for Biological Terrorism?
  • C.J. Peters
  • Index.