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Record Nr.

UNINA9910831055403321

Titolo

Emerging Infections 3 / / W. Michael Scheld, William A. Craig, James M. Hughes, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : ASM Press, , 1999

ISBN

1-68367-258-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvii, 239 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

362.19690096

Soggetti

Communicable diseases - Epidemiology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contributors -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Hepatitis E Virus Infection: an Enterically Transmitted Cause of Hepatitis -- Michael O. Favorov -- Harold S. Margolis -- Emerging Rickettsioses -- Didier Raoult -- James G. Olson -- Salmonella Enteritidis and Salmonella Typhimurium DT104: Successful Subtypes in the Modern World -- Robert V. Tauxe -- Streptococcus iniae: an Emerging Pathogen in the Aquaculture Industry -- D. E. Low -- E. Liu -- J. Fuller -- A. McGeer -- Epidemic Typhus: a Forgotten but Lingering Threat -- James G. Olson -- The Microsporidial Infections: Progress in Epidemiology and Prevention -- David A. Schwartz -- Ralph T. Bryan -- Leishmania: a Parasite on the Move -- James H. Maguire -- Chagas' Disease (American Trypanosomiasis): a Tropical Disease Now Emerging in the United States -- Louis V. Kirchhoff -- Pfiesteria piscicida and Human Health -- David W. Oldach -- Lynn M. Grattan -- J. Glenn Morris -- Emerging Diseases of Animals -- Corrie Brown -- Infectious Disease Issues in Xenotransplantation -- Louisa E. Chapman -- William M. Switzer -- Paul A. Sandstrom -- Salvatore T. Butera -- Walid Heneine -- Thomas M. Folks -- The Emerging Role of Pathology in Infectious Diseases -- Sherif R. Zaki -- Christopher D. Paddock -- Medical Examiner and Coroner Surveillance for Emerging Infections -- Kurt B. Nolte -- Mitchell I. Wolfe -- The Role of the Public Health Community in Detecting and Responding to Domestic Terrorism Involving Infectious Agents -- James W. LeDuc -- Stephen M. Ostroff -- Joseph E. McDade -- Scott Lillibridge -- James M. Hughes -- Index.



Sommario/riassunto

"Emerging Infections 3 is the third of an annual series of books based on ICAAC Symposia on Emerging Infections. It provides a complete and updated discussion of new and emerging infectious diseases, covering both basic science and clinical topics. The editors are in the forefront of the scientific and clinical communities dealing with emerging pathogens. This book and the series will be valuable to a wide range of people working in microbiology, infectious diseases, epidemiology, public health, and clinical medicine"--