Emerging infections 10. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Emerging infections ten
• Further Information: Note: Edited by W. Michael Scheld, Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Virginia Health System, charlottesville, VA ; James M. Hughes, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA ; Richard J. Whitley, Department of Pediatrics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL.
• Editors: Scheld, W. Michael; Hughes, James M, 1945-; Whitley, Richard J
• Contents: West Africa 2013: Re-examining Ebola / Daniel G. Bausch, Amanda Rojek, and Mikiko Senga -- Preparing for Serious Communicable Diseases in the United States: What the Ebola Virus Epidemic Has Taught Us / Bruce S. Ribner and Jay B. Varkey -- Ebola Virus Disease: Therapeutic and Potential Preventative Opportunities / Robert Fisher and Luciana Borio -- Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) / Sonja A. Rasmussen, Amelia K. Watson, and David L. Swerdlow -- The Emergence of Enterovirus D-68 / Kevin Messacar, Mark J. Abzug, and Samuel R. Dominguez -- The Role of Punctuated Evolution in the Pathogenicity of Influenza Viruses / Jonathan A. McCullers -- Measles in the United States since the Millennium: Perils and Progress in the Post-Elimination Era / Anne Schuchat, Amy Parker Fiebelkorn, and William Bellini -- Chikungunya Virus: Current Perspectives on a Re-Emerging Virus / Clayton R. Morrison, Kenneth S. Plante, and Mark T. Heise -- Zika Virus Disease / Werner Georg Slenczka -- West Nile Virus Infection / James J. Sejvar -- Mobilization of Carbapenemase-Mediated Resistance in Enterobacteriaceae / Amy Mathers -- Antimicrobial Resistance Expressed by Neisseria gonorrhoeae: A Major Global Public Health Problem in the 21st Century / Magnus Unemo, Carlos del Rio, and William M. Shafer -- Bordetella holmesii: Still Emerging and Elusive 20 Years On / Laure F. Pittet and Klara M. Posfay Barbe -- Cronobacter spp. / Brian P. Blackwood and Catherine J. Hunter -- Clostridium difficile Infection / Jae Hyun Shin, Esteban Chaves-Olarte, and Cirle A. Warren -- Emerging Tick-Borne Bacterial Pathogens / Tahar Kernif, Hamza Leulmi, Didier Raoult, and Philippe Parola -- Bordatella pertussis / Delma J. Nieves and Ulrich Heininger -- Invasive Infections with Nontyphoidal Salmonella in Sub-Saharan Africa / Barbara E. Mahon and Patricia I. Fields -- Fungal Infections Associated with Contaminated Steroid Injections / Carol A. Kaufman and Anurag N. Malani -- Emerging Fungal Infections in the Pacific Northwest: the Unrecognized Burden of Coccidioides immitis and Cryptococcus gattii / Shawn R. Lockhart, Orion McCotter, and Tom M. Chiller -- The Emerging Amphibian Fungal Disease, Chytridiomycosis: A Key Example of the Global Phenomenon of Wildlife Emerging Infectious Diseases / Jonathan E. Kolby and Peter Daszak -- Arteminsinin-Resistant Plasmodium falciparum Malaria / Rick M. Fairhurst and Arjen M. Dondorp.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : ASM Press
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 616.9; Emerging infectious diseases; Communicable diseases -- Epidemiology; Communicable diseases -- Epidemiology; Emerging infectious diseases; Communicable Diseases, Emerging
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781683673217
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