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Emerging infections 2 /

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Scheld, W. Michael, Craig, William A., Hughes, james M.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC : ASM Press, ©1998.
Subjects:
Infection.
Communicable diseases.
Communicable diseases > Transmission.
Communicable Diseases
Infections
Disease Transmission, Infectious
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Preface 1 : New-Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease and Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy: the Strengthening Etiologic Link between Two Emerging Diseases/ Lawrence B. Schonberger 2 : Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome in the Americas/ C. J. Peters 3 : Emergence Mechanisms in Yellow Fever and Dengue/ Scott B. Halstead 4 : Human Herpesvirus 8 and Kaposi's Sarcoma/ Thomas J. Spira, Harold W. Jaffe 5 : The Association of Chlamydia pneumoniae and Atherogenesis/ Michael Dunne 6 : Cholera and Vibrio cholerae: New Challenges from a Once and Future Pathogen/ Robert V. Tauxe, Timothy J. Barrett 7 : Reemerging Infections: Recent Developments in Pertussis/ Erik L. Hewlett 8 : Epidemic Leptospirosis Associated with Pulmonary Hemorrhage in Nicaragua, Other Recent Outbreaks, and Diagnostic Testing: Issues and Opportunities/ Bradley A. Perkins 9 : Plague as an Emerging Disease/ David T. Dennis 10 : Cyclospora: Whence and Where to?/ David A. Reiman 11 : The Resurgence of Malaria/ Yao-Lung Tsai, Donald J. Krogstad 12 : Immigrants, Imaging, and Immunoblots: the Emergence of Neurocysticercosis as a Significant Public Health Problem/ Peter M. Schantz, Patricia P. Wilkins, Victor C. W. Tsang 13 : The North American Liver Fluke, Metorchis conjunctus/ J. Dick MacLean 14 : Opportunistic Infections (OIs) as Emerging Infectious Diseases: Challenges Posed by OIs in the 1990s and Beyond/ Jonathan E. Kaplan, Debra L. Hanson, Jeffrey L. Jones, Charles B. Beard, Dennis D. Juranek, Clare A. Dykewicz 15 : Food-Borne Diseases in the Global Village: What's on the Plate for the 21st Century/ David L. Swerdlow, Sean F. Altekruse 16 : From Prions to Parasites: Issues and Concerns in Blood Safety/ Rima F. Khabbaz, Mary Chamberland 17 : CDC's Global Efforts To Address Emerging Diseases/ James W. LeDuc, James M. Hughes
  • Index.