Reemergence of Established Pathogens in the 21st Century
In the closing decade of the last century, we saw warnings that infectious diseases will require much more attention from patients and physicians in the 21 st century. Recently d- covered diseases such as AIDS pose a major threat to the population at larg
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Emerging Infectious Diseases of the 21st Century Series Editor: I. W. Fong Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto Head of Infectious Diseases, St. Michael’s Hospital
Recent volumes in this series INFECTIONS AND THE CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM: New Perspectives Edited by I. W. Fong REEMERGENCE OF ESTABLISHED PATHOGENS IN THE 21ST CENTURY Edited by I. W. Fong and Karl Drlica
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Reemergence of Established Pathogens in the 21st Century
Edited by
I. W. Fong University of Toronto, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
and
Karl Drlica The Public Health Research Institute Newark, New Jersey
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Contributors
Rafael Cantón Servicio de Microbiología, Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, Spain Karl Drlica Public Health Research Institute, 225 Warren St., Newark, NJ 07103 Ignatius W. Fong Chief of Infectious Disease, St. Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5B 1W8 Nina E. Glass Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA Gilbert Greub Unité des Rickettsies, CNRS UMR 6020, IFR48 Faculté de Médecine, Université de la Méditerranée 27, Boulevard Jean Moulin 13385 Marseille, France Kevin C. Kain Center for Travel and Tropical Medicine, University Health Network, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Maria Kolia Research Fellow in Infectious Disease, St. Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto, Canada Malak Kotb Department of Surgery and Microbiology and Immunology, University of TN, Memphis, TN 38163, and Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Research Service, Memphis TN 38104 Mona Loufty Fellow in Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada Donald E. Low Department of Microbiology, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5G 1X5 José L. Martínez Departaments de Biotecnología Microbiana, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CSIC), Madrid, Spain Allison McGeer Department of Microbiology, Mount Sinai Hospital and the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5G 1X5 v
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Contributors
Maria Morosini Servicio de Microbiología, Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, Spain Barbara E. Murray Center for the Study of Emerging and Re-Emerging Pathogens, Division of Infectious Diseases, Depart
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