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Hot Topics in Infection and Immunity in Children

  • Andrew J. Pollard
  • George H. McCrackenJr.
  • Adam Finn
Conference proceedings

Part of the Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology book series (AEMB, volume 549)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xxix
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  2. Of Vaccination and Infectious Diseases in 2003
    Stanley A. Plotkin
    Pages 1-4
  3. New Antibiotics and Bacterial Resistance
    Sheldon L. Kaplan
    Pages 5-8
  4. New Antivirals and Antiviral Resistance
    Charles G. Prober
    Pages 9-12
  5. Mucosal Immunity to Infections and its Importance in Future Vaccinology
    Michel Lajeunesse, Qibo Zhang, Adam Finn
    Pages 13-22
  6. Dynamics of Bacterial Carriage and Disease: Lessons from the Meningococcus
    Martin C. J. Maiden
    Pages 23-29
  7. Current Management of Bacterial Meningitis
    George H. McCracken Jr.
    Pages 31-33
  8. Congenital Syphilis Resurgent
    Simon Dobson
    Pages 35-40
  9. Antibiotics for Acute Otitis Media in the Era of Antibiotic Resistance—What are the Choices?
    Ron Dagan
    Pages 41-45
  10. Bone and Joint Infections in Children
    Sophie Hambleton, Anthony R. Berendt
    Pages 47-62
  11. Sepsis Syndrome in Children: Can We Do Better?
    Marieke Emonts, Ronald de Groot
    Pages 63-70
  12. Prevention of Enteric Diseases
    Ina Stephens, James P. Nataro
    Pages 71-82
  13. Viral Hepatitis in Children
    Deirdre Kelly
    Pages 83-90
  14. Controversies in Neonatal Infection
    M. L. A. May, David Isaacs
    Pages 91-96
  15. Bacterial and Fungal Infections in the Neonate: Current Diagnosis and Therapy
    Pablo J. Sánchez
    Pages 97-103
  16. Pertussis is Back and Now What?
    Nicole Guiso
    Pages 105-108
  17. The Immunocompromised Host: The Patient with Recurrent Infection
    Andrew R. Gennery, Andrew J. Cant
    Pages 109-117
  18. Febrile Neutropenia: Past, Present and Future
    Olaf Neth, Nigel Klein
    Pages 119-124
  19. Malaria
    Kathryn Maitland, Malcolm Molyneux
    Pages 125-134
  20. HIV-1 Infection in Children: Current Practice and Future Predictions
    Lauri-Ann Van der Poel, Saul N. Faust, Gareth Tudor-Williams
    Pages 135-148
  21. Preventing Perinatal Transmission of HIV—Are We Doing Enough?
    Lauri-Ann Van der Poel, Hermione Lyall
    Pages 149-154
  22. Congenital Cytomegalovirus Infection: Epidemiology and Treatment
    Richard J. Whitley
    Pages 155-160
  23. Global Control of Rotavirus Disease
    Edward Kim Mulholland
    Pages 161-168
  24. RSV and Influenza
    Birgit von Hoersten, Mike Sharland
    Pages 169-175
  25. Encephalitis—Beyond Aciclovir
    Dominic Kelly, J. Simon Kroll
    Pages 177-183
  26. Current Issues in Managing Group A Streptococcal Infections
    Jonathan R. Carapetis
    Pages 185-190
  27. Kawasaki Disease and Toxic Shock Syndrome—At Last the Etiology is Clear?
    Nigel Curtis
    Pages 191-200
  28. The Last of the Meningococcus?
    Shelley Segal, Andrew J. Pollard
    Pages 201-209
  29. The Potential of Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccines to Reduce Antibiotic Resistance
    Ron Dagan
    Pages 211-219
  30. Is Haemophilus influenzae Type b Disease Finished?
    Dominic Kelly, E. Richard Moxon
    Pages 221-229
  31. Strategies for Preventing Group B Streptococcal Disease
    Esse Menson, Paul T. Heath
    Pages 231-236
  32. Recent Advances in the Therapy Against Invasive Aspergillosis
    Corina E. Gonzalez
    Pages 237-247
  33. Back Matter
    Pages 249-256
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About these proceedings

Introduction

Hot Topics in Infection and Immunity in Children brings together leading experts in the field to provide a current and authoritative view concerning the hottest topics of concern to clinicians caring for children with infections and research scientists working in the areas of infectious disease, immunology, microbiology and public health.
The book is based on a collection of manuscripts from a faculty of authors of international standing who contributed to a course in Paediatric Infection and Immunity in Oxford, UK in June 2003.

Keywords

Hepatitis Malaria Sepsis antibiotics bacteria fungal infection infection infections infectious infectious disease infectious diseases

Editors and affiliations

  • Andrew J. Pollard
    • 1
  • George H. McCrackenJr.
    • 2
  • Adam Finn
    • 3
  1. 1.Department of PaediatricsUniversity of OxfordOxfordUK
  2. 2.Southwestern Medical CenterUniversity of TexasDallasUSA
  3. 3.University of BristolBristolUK

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8993-2
  • Copyright Information Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York 2004
  • Publisher Name Springer, Boston, MA
  • eBook Packages Springer Book Archive
  • Print ISBN 978-1-4613-4751-4
  • Online ISBN 978-1-4419-8993-2
  • Series Print ISSN 0065-2598
  • Buy this book on publisher's site