Emerging Infections 2

Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville. Derived from presentations given at the 1997 Interscience Conference on Antimicro- bial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC). Date and site are not cited. Halftone illustrations. Softcover.

Contributors

ix

Foreword

xi

Preface

xiii

Acknowledgments

xv

New-Variant Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease and Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy: the Strengthening Etiologic Link between Two Emerging Diseases

1

(16)

Lawrence B. Schonberger

Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome in the Americas

17

(48)

C. J. Peters

Emergence Mechanisms in Yellow Fever and Dengue

65

(16)

Scott B. Halstead

Human Herpesvirus 8 and Kaposi's Sarcoma

81

(24)

Thomas J. Spira

Harold W. Jaffe

The Association of Chalmydia pneumoniae and Atherogenesis

105

(20)

Michael Dunne

Cholera and Vibrio cholerae: New Challenges from a Once and Future Pathogen

125

(20)

Robert V. Tauxe

Timothy J. Barrett

Reemerging Infections: Recent Developments in Pertusis

145

(14)

Erik L. Hewlett

Epidemic Leptospirosis Associated with Pulmonary Hemorrhage in Nicaragua, Other Recent Outbreaks, and Diagnostic Testing: Issues and Opportunities

159

(10)

Bradley A. Perkins

Plague as an Emerging Disease

169

(16)

David T. Dennis

Cyclospora: Whence and Where to?

185

(10)

David A. Relman

The Resurgence of Malaria

195

(18)

Yao-Lung Tsai

Donald L. Krigstad

Immigrants, Imaging, and Immunoblots: the Emergence of Neurocysticercosis as a Significant Public Health Problem

213

(30)

Peter M. Schantz

Patricia P. Wilkins

Victor C. W. Tsang

The North American Liver Fluke, Metorchis conjunctus

243

(14)

J. Dick MacLean

Opportunistic Infections (OIs) as Emerging Infectious Diseases: Challenges Posed by OIs in the 1990s and Beyond

257

(16)

Jonathan E. Kaplan

Debra L. Hanson

Jeffrey L. Jones

Charles B. Beard

Dennis D. Juranek

Clare A. Dykewicz

Food-Borne Diseases in the Global Village: What's on the Plate for the 21st Century

273

(22)

David L. Swerdlow

Sean F. Altekruse

From Prions to Parasites: Issues and Concerns in Blood Safety

295

(16)

Rima F. Khabbaz

Mary Chamberland

CDC's Global Efforts To Address Emerging Diseases

311

(12)

James W. LeDuc

James M. Hughes

Index

323

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