Emerging Infections

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.

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

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