Emerging Infections 8

Forty seven academics and researchers contribute 20 chapters providing informantions on the epidemiology, clinical features, and prevention and control strategies for a number of important emerging and reemerging infectious diseases and syndromes, including non-SARS coronaviruses, human bocavirus, norovirus gastroenteritis, new human parechoviruses, adenoviral infections in transplant recipients, Japanese encephalitis, chikungunya virus, lyssa viruses, Hendra and Nipah viruses, Rift Valley fever, Streptococcus suis, Staphylococcus aureus, pertussis, salmonellosis, Klebsiella oxytoca, Clostridium difficile, drug-resistant tuberculosis, immune reconstitutions inflammatory syndrome, and non-albicans Candida. The chapters are derived from sessions held during annual meetings of the Interscience Conference on Anti-microbial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC) and the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA); publication of the text coincides with the 2008 joint ICAAC-IDSA meeting.