Research Catalog

Title

Hot topics in infection and immunity in children. IV / editors, Adam Finn, Andrew J. Pollard.

Publication

New York ; London : Springer, [2008], ©2008.

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Additional Authors

• Finn, Adam, 1959-
• Pollard, Andrew J.

Description

xi, 238 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Advances in experimental medicine and biology ; v. 609

Uniform Title

Advances in experimental medicine and biology ; v. 609.

Alternative Title

Hot topics in infection and immunity in children. 4

Subject

• Infection in children
• Communicable diseases in children
• Children > Immunological aspects
• Infections > drug therapy
• Infections > immunology
• Bacterial Infections > drug therapy
• Bacterial Infections > immunology
• Virus Diseases > drug therapy
• Virus Diseases > immunology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. The Enteroviruses: An Emerging Infectious Disease? The Real, the Speculative and the Really Speculative / Mark J. Abzug -- 2. Science and Society: The HIV Epidemic and South African Political Responses / Hoosen Coovadia and Imraan Coovadia -- 3. Pathogenesis of Group A Streptococcal Infections and Their Sequelae / Madeleine W. Cunningham -- 4. Snakes, Jellyfish and Spiders / Bart J. Currie -- 5. Current Status of Group A Streptococcal Vaccine Development / James B. Dale -- 6. New Aspects on Diagnosis and Transmission of Hepatitis B in Pediatric Patients and Pregnant Women / Robert A. de Man, Annemiek van der Eijck and Irene Veldhuijzen -- 7. Pertussis Immunisation in Adolescents and Adults / Ulrich Heininger -- 8. Trachoma: Recent Developments / David Mabey -- 9. Gonococcal Infections in Newborns and in Adolescents / Noni MacDonald, Tim Mailman and Shalini Desai -- 10. Management of Severe Dengue in Children / Christopher Moxon and Bridget Wills -- 11. Human Papillomavirus Vaccines: Who Should Get Them and Why? / Stephane Paulus and Simon Dobson -- 12. Antimicrobial Resistance among Enteric Pathogens / Larry K. Pickering -- 13. What the Paediatrician Needs to Know When Pandemic Influenza Arrives in Clinical Practice / Nicole Ritz and Nigel Curtis -- 14. Lyme Disease / Eugene D. Shapiro -- 15. Management of Myocarditis in Children: The Current Situation / Brigitte Stiller -- 16. Therapy of Herpes Virus Infections in Children / Richard J. Whitley.

ISBN

• 9780387739595 (hbk.)
• 0387739599 (hbk.)

LCCN

2007934263

OCLC

• ocn180479302
• 180479302
• SCSB-5387344

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries