Emerging Infections

Emerging Infections 6 is the sixth 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.

Ch. 1. Hepatitis C Virus and chronic liver disease — Ch. 2. Polio reemerges in the Americas: a vaccine-derived outbreak in Hispaniola in 2000 and 2001 — Ch. 3. Yellow Fever Vaccine-Associated Disease — Ch. 4. Responding to epidemics of ebola hemorrhagic fever: progress and lessons learned from recent outbreaks in Uganda, Gabon, and Congo — Ch. 5. The global epidemiology of AIDS — Ch. 6. One multidisciplinary approach to AIDS in Africa: the academic alliance for AIDS care and prevention in Africa — Ch. 7. Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli — Ch. 8. Wound botulism, tetanus, and necrotizing fasciitis among injecting drug users in California: the clostridial connection — Ch. 9. Unexplained severe illness and death among injecting drugs users in Scotland, Ireland, and England from April to August 2000 — Ch. 10. Travel-associated fungal infections — Ch. 11. Human African trypanosomiasis: a reemerging public health threat — Ch. 12. Raccoon roundworm infection (Baylisascariasis): a zoonosis of pediatric and public health concern — Ch. 13. Can surveillance for unexplained deaths be used as a public health approach for early recognition of new pathogens? — Ch. 14. The international emerging infections program in Thailand: an early report.