Emerging and Reemerging Human Viral Diseases

Emerging and Reemerging Clostridia in Human Diseases

Background During the past decade, considerable attention was directed toward the emergence and reemergence of various viral, fungal, parasitic and bacterial infectious diseases as significant threats to public health. (6, 14) Included among the published lists of specific infectious diseases and agents are those caused by several aerobic bacterial pathogens, with no or only limited recognition...

Emerging and Reemerging Diseases and Globalization

After 9/11, the literature on health policy and infectious diseases placed considerable emphasis on bioterrorism and national security issues, refl ect-ing the permanently altered perceptions of America and other nations with

Research Activities on Emerging and Reemerging Diseases

This paper showed the trend in the number of paper published on emergingand reemerging diseases by using the list of the Medline, which is one of the most valuable databases in the clinical and biological medicine. The number of research papers published on the emerging and reemerging infections in that database decreased in 1997, in comparison with those between 1994 and 1996, in spite of the ...

Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases of Animals and Plants

Emerging and reemerging infectious diseases: the perpetual challenge.

Public health officials once suggested that it might someday be possible to "close the book" on the study and treatment of infectious diseases. However, it is now clear that endemic diseases as well as newly emerging ones (e.g., severe acute respiratory syndrome [SARS]), reemerging ones (e.g., West Nile virus), and even deliberately disseminated infectious diseases (e.g., anthrax from bioterror...