Emerging Infections 10 (ASM Books)

Contributors ix Foreword xv Preface xvii Acknowledgments xix 1 West Africa 2013: Re-examining Ebola 1 Daniel G. Bausch and Amanda Rojek 2 Preparing for Serious Communicable Diseases in the United States: What the Ebola Virus Epidemic Has Taught Us 39 Jay B. Varkey and Bruce S. Ribner 3 Ebola Virus Disease: Therapeutic and Potential Preventative Opportunities 53 Robert Fisher and Luciana Borio 4 Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) 73 Sonja A. Rasmussen, Amelia K. Watson, and David L. Swerdlow 5 The Emergence of Enterovirus D-68 105 Kevin Messacar, Mark J. Abzug, and Samuel R. Dominguez 6 The Role of Punctuated Evolution in the Pathogenicity of Influenza Viruses 121 Jonathan A. McCullers 7 Measles in the United States since the Millennium: Perils and Progress in the Postelimination Era 131 Anne Schuchat, Amy Parker Fiebelkorn, and William Bellini 8 Chikungunya Virus: Current Perspectives on a Reemerging Virus 143 Clayton R. Morrison, Kenneth S. Plante, and Mark T. Heise 9 Zika Virus Disease 163 Werner Slenczka 10 West Nile Virus Infection 175 James J. Sejvar 11 Mobilization of Carbapenemase-Mediated Resistance in Enterobacteriaceae 201 Amy Mathers 12 Antimicrobial Resistance Expressed by Neisseria gonorrhoeae: A Major Global Public Health Problem in the 21st Century 213 Magnus Unemo, Carlos del Rio, and William M. Shafer 13 Bordetella holmesii: Still Emerging and Elusive 20 Years On 239 Laure F. Pittet and Klara M. Posfay-Barbe 14 Cronobacter spp. 255 Brian P. Blackwood and Catherine J. Hunter 15 Clostridium difficile Infection 265 Jae Hyun Shin, Esteban Chaves-Olarte, and Cirle A. Warren 16 Emerging Tick-Borne Bacterial Pathogens 295 Tahar Kernif, Hamza Leulmi, Didier Raoult, and Philippe Parola 17 Bordetella pertussis 311 Delma J. Nieves and Ulrich Heininger 18 Invasive Infections with Nontyphoidal Salmonella in Sub-Saharan Africa 341 Barbara E. Mahon and Patricia I. Fields 19 Fungal Infections Associated with Contaminated Steroid Injections 359 Carol A. Kauffman and Anurag N. Malani 20 Emerging Fungal Infections in the Pacific Northwest: The Unrecognized Burden and Geographic Range of Cryptococcus gattii and Coccidioides immitis 375 Shawn R. Lockhart, Orion Z. McCotter, and Tom M. Chiller 21 The Emerging Amphibian Fungal Disease, Chytridiomycosis: A Key Example of the Global Phenomenon of Wildlife Emerging Infectious Diseases 385 Jonathan E. Kolby and Peter Daszak 22 Artemisinin-Resistant Plasmodium falciparum Malaria 409 Rick M. Fairhurst and Arjen M. Dondorp Index 431