Emerging infections 6 / edited by W. Michael Scheld, Barbara E. Murray, James M. Hughes.

Washington, D.C. : ASM ; Oxford : Blackwell, [2004], ©2004.

xvii, 210 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm

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 drug 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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.