Preface.

The Author.

Acknowledgments.

Part 1: Introduction to Emerging Infectious Diseases.

Chapter 1: Infectious Diseases Past and Present.

Chapter 2: Of Microbes and Men.

Part 2: Bacterial Infections.

Chapter 3: Lyme Disease.

Chapter 4: Human Ehrlichiosis.

Chapter 5: Bartonella Infections.

Chapter 6: Group A Streptococci.

Chapter 7: Escherichia coli O157:H7.

Chapter 8: Helicobacter pylori, Ulcers, and Cancer.

Chapter 9: Legionnaires’ Disease and Pontiac Fever.

Chapter 10: Pulmonary Tuberculosis and Multidrug Resistance.

Chapter 11: Emerging Bacterial Drug Resistance.

Part 3: Viral Infections.

Chapter 12: Marburg and Ebola Hemorrhagic Fevers.

Chapter 13: American Hemorrhagic Fevers.

Chapter 14: Lassa Hemorrhagic Fever.

Chapter 15: Dengue Fever and Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever.

Chapter 16: The Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.

Chapter 17: Human Herpesvirus 8 and Kaposi's Sarcoma.

Chapter 18: Hepatitis C.

Chapter 19: Epidemic and Pandemic Influenza.

Chapter 20: Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome.

Chapter 21: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.

Chapter 22: West Nile Disease in the United States.

Chapter 23: Monkeypox.

Part 4: Parasitic Infections.

Chapter 24: Malaria: Reemergence Recent Successes.

Chapter 25: Babesiosis.

Chapter 26: Cryptosporidiosis.

Chapter 27: Chagas' Disease and Its Emergence in the United States.

Part 5: Infectious Proteins.

Chapter 28: Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease and Other Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies.

Part 6: Special Issues in Infectious Diseases.

Chapter 29: The Emerging Importance of Infectious Diseases in the Immunosuppressed.

Chapter 30: The Emerging Threat of Bioweapons.

Glossary.

Index.