New and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases

New, emerging, and re-emerging infectious diseases.

New and Re-Emerging Infectious Diseases

The seventh annual Conference on New and Re-Emerging Infectious Diseases, April 15–16, 2004, was hosted by the Center for Zoonoses Research and the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The conference featured eight speakers and 31 poster presentations. The conference was opened with a presentation on Yersinia enterocolitica, a gram-negative enteric h...

emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases: public health perspective

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Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases.

Microbial pathogens discovered as aetiological agents of human disease over the last 25 years are reviewed. Strengthening of laboratory and public health surveillance is of paramount importance for early detection and management of emerging infectious diseases.

Fifth Annual Conference on New and Re-Emerging Infectious Diseases

ference featured 8 speakers and 35 poster presentations.) opened the conference with a presentation on the search for the origins of HIV. The evidence indicates that two simian immu-nodeficiency viruses (SIV), one from chimpanzees (SIVcpz) and the other from sooty mangabeys (SIVsm), crossed the species barrier to humans, generating HIV-1 and HIV-2, respectively. Dr. Hahn stressed the importance...