Emerging Infections Biomedical Research Reports

Summary: Emerging Infections offers state-of-the-art coverage of new and reemerging bacterial, viral, and parasitic infections, their life cycles, host defense evasion strategies, and clinical features. This volume, with contributions from eminent international researchers, includes the history of infectious disease outbreaks, population and evolutionary biology of human pathogens, and current epidemiological models describin...g how ecological and demographic changes produce new epidemics. Articles detail the major established pathogens as well as the new and sensational. Highlights * Persisting problems in tuberculosis * Pathogenic Escherichia coli 0157:H7 * The revival of Group A Streptococcal diseases * Antibiotic resistance in bacteria * Korean hemorrhagic fever and Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome * Ebola virus: where does it come from and where is it going? [read more]