Emerging Infections

Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville. Provides updates on emerging infections. Topics include avian influenza A virus, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), monkeypox virus, emergence of novel retroviruses, smallpox vaccination, leishmaniasis in American soldiers, and more. For researchers. Softcover.

Contributors

ix

Foreword

xiii

Preface

xvii

Acknowledgments

xix

Avian Influenza A (H5N1) Virus

1

(22)

Justin R. Ortiz

Timothy M. Uyeki

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)

23

(28)

J. S. M. Peiris

Y. Guan

L. L. M. Poon

V. C. C. Cheng

J. M. Nicholls

K. Y. Yuen

Human Metapneumovirus

51

(18)

Bernadette G. van den Hoogen

Albert D. M. E. Osterhaus

Ron A. M. Fouchier

Changing Patterns of Respiratory Viral Infections in Transplant Recipients

69

(16)

Michael G. Ison

Jay A. Fishman

Monkeypox Virus: Insights on Its Emergence in Human Populations

85

(14)

Inger Damon

West Nile Virus

99

(22)

Lyle R. Petersen

Chandipura Encephalitis: a Newly Recognized Disease of Public Health Importance in India

121

(18)

Akhilesh Chandra Mishra

Emergence of Novel Retroviruses

139

(14)

Nathan D. Wolfe

William M. Switzer

Walid Heneine

Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus

153

(28)

Susan E. Crawford

Susan Boyle-Vavra

Robert S. Daum

Carbapenem Resistance in Klebsiella pneumoniae and Other Members of the Family Enterobacteriaceae

181

(18)

Simona Bratu

John Quale

The Emerging Role of Klebsiellae in Liver Abscess

199

(16)

Joseph Rahimian

Jin-Town Wang

Conjugate Vaccines as Probes To Define the Burden of Pneumococcal and Haemophilus influenzae Type b Pneumonia as Well as the Role of Viruses in the Pathogenesis of Pneumonia

215

(10)

Keith P. Klugman

Shabir A. Madhi

Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis and Crohn's Disease

225

(22)

Saleh A. Naser

Najih A. Naser

Zygomycosis

247

(36)

Corina E. Gonzalez

Charalampos Antachopoulos

Shmuel Shoham

Thomas J. Walsh

Emerging Food- and Waterborne Protozoan Diseases

283

(26)

Michael J. Arrowood

Ynes R. Ortega

Lihua X. Xiao

Ronald Fayer

Multidrug-Resistant Acinetobacter Infections in U.S. Military Personnel, 2003 to 2005

309

(16)

Kepler A. Davis

Kimberly A. Moran

Leishmaniasis in American Soldiers: Parasites from the Front

325

(18)

Naomi E. Aronson

Smallpox Vaccination: a Review of Adverse Events for Contemporary Health Care Providers

343

(24)

Vincent A. Fulginiti

Index

367

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