Emerging infectious diseases : trends and issues
Contributors -- Preface -- Background -- introduction to emerging and reemerging infectious diseases / Microbial resistance to antibiotics / Categories and highlights of significant current emerging infectious diseases / Specific diseases -- Cholera / Cryptosporidiosis / Cyclospora cayetanensis : arriving via Guatemalan raspberries / Dengue fever / Ebola, Marburg, Lassa, and other hemorrhagic fevers / Escherichia coli O157:H7 / Emerging fungal infections / Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome / Hepatitis C / HIV/AIDS / Avian influenza A (H5N1) / Legionellosis : Legionnaires disease and Pontiac fever / Lyme disease, Ehrlichiosis, Anaplasmosis, and Babesiosis
Malaria / Metapneumovirus / Monekypox and other emerging Orthopoxvirus infections / Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis / Prion diseases : Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and other transmissible spongiform encephalopathies / SARS : from zoonosis to pandemic threat / West Nile virus / Special considerations -- role of infection in some cancers and chronic diseases / Travel, recreation, and emerging infectious diseases / Immunocompromised persons and emerging infectious diseases / Bioterrorism in the context of infectious diseases / Behavioral and cultural aspects of transmission and infection / Into the future
Appendices -- Emerging/reemerging infectious diseases by organism / emerging/reemerging infectious diseases by modes of transmission / Prevention of emerging/reemerging infectious diseases / Selected resources / Glossary -- Index.
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