Emerging infections 6
By: edited by W. Michael Scheld, Barbara E. Murray, James M. Hughes.
Contributors: Scheld, W. Michael.; Murray, Barbara E.; Hughes, James M.; American Society for Microbiology.
Publisher: ASM; Blackwell
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Washington, D.C; Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
Subjects: Communicable diseases.; Communicable diseases -- Epidemiology.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Ch. 1. Hepatitis C Virus and chronic liver disease; value: Ch. 2. Polio reemerges in the Americas: a vaccine-derived outbreak in Hispaniola in 2000 and 2001; value: Ch. 3. Yellow Fever Vaccine-Associated Disease; value: Ch. 4. Responding to epidemics of ebola hemorrhagic fever: progress and lessons learned from recent outbreaks in Uganda, Gabon, and Congo; value: Ch. 5. The global epidemiology of AIDS; value: Ch. 6. One multidisciplinary approach to AIDS in Africa: the academic alliance for AIDS care and prevention in Africa; value: Ch. 7. Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli; value: Ch. 8. Wound botulism, tetanus, and necrotizing fasciitis among injecting drug users in California: the clostridial connection; value: Ch. 9. Unexplained severe illness and death among injecting drugs users in Scotland, Ireland, and England from April to August 2000; value: Ch. 10. Travel-associated fungal infections; value: Ch. 11. Human African trypanosomiasis: a reemerging public health threat; value: Ch. 12. Raccoon roundworm infection (Baylisascariasis): a zoonosis of pediatric and public health concern; value: Ch. 13. Can surveillance for unexplained deaths be used as a public health approach for early recognition of new pathogens?; value: Ch. 14. The international emerging infections program in Thailand: an early report.