"The second volume in an annual series of books based on ICAAC Symposia, Emerging Infections 2 provides a complete and updated discussion of new and emerging infectious diseases, covering both basic science and clinical topics. Written by experts in the field, this new book offers broad coverage on topics ranging from prions and viruses to bacteria and helminths. It also includes chapters on food borne diseases in the 21st century, concerns in blood safety, and strategies for addressing emerging infections on a global scale. A foreword is written by U. S. Surgeon General Dr. David Satcher.

This book and the series will be valuable to a wide range of people working in microbiology, infectious diseases, epidemiology, public health, and medicine."

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Cover
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Contents
Contributors
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: New-Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease and Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy: the Strengthening Etiologic Link between Two Emerging Diseases
Chapter 2: Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome in the Americas
Chapter 3: Emergence Mechanisms in Yellow Fever and Dengue
Chapter 4: Human Herpesvirus 8 and Kaposi's Sarcoma
Chapter 5: The Association of Chlamydia pneumoniae and Atherogenesis
Chapter 6: Cholera and Vibrio cholerae: New Challenges from a Once and Future Pathogen
Chapter 7: Reemerging Infections: Recent Developments in Pertussis
Chapter 8: Epidemic Leptospirosis Associated with Pulmonary Hemorrhage in Nicaragua, Other Recent Outbreaks, and Diagnostic Testing: Issues and Opportunities
Chapter 9: Plague as an Emerging Disease
Chapter 10: Cyclospora: Whence and Where to?
Chapter 11: The Resurgence of Malaria
Chapter 12: Immigrants, Imaging, and Immunoblots: the Emergence of N eurocysticercosis as a Significant Public Health Problem
Chapter 13: The North American Liver Fluke, Metorchis conjunctus
Chapter 14: Opportunistic Infections (OIs) as Emerging Infectious Diseases: Challenges Posed by OIs in the 1990s and Beyond
Chapter 15: Food-Borne Diseases in the Global Village: What's on the Plate for the 21st Century
Chapter 16: From Prions to Parasites: Issues and Concerns in Blood Safety
Chapter 17: CDC's Global Efforts To Address Emerging Diseases
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