The July–September 1998 issue of the journal contains presentations from the International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases (Atlanta, March 8-11, 1998).

• About the International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases, S.A. Morse

About Emerging Infectious Diseases

• Collaboration in the Fight Against Infectious Diseases, The Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala
• Effective Global Response to Emerging Infectious Diseases, C. Broome
• Addressing Emerging Infectious Disease Threats—Accomplishments and Future Plans, J. Hughes
• Global Surveillance of Communicable Diseases, D. Heymann and G. Rodier
• Emerging Infections: An Evolutionary Perspective, J. Lederberg
• Emerging Infectious Diseases: A Brief Biographical Heritage, P. Drotman
• New and Reemerging Diseases: The Importance of Biomedical Research, A. Fauci
• Health Policy Implications of Emerging Infections, K. Hein

New Agents and Disease Associations

• Detection and Identification of Previously Unrecognized Microbial Pathogens, D. Relman
• The Emergence of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy and Related Diseases, J. Pattison
• Explaining the Unexplained in Clinical Infectious Diseases: Looking Forward, B. Perkins and D. Relman

The Global Threat

• Malaria: A Reemerging Disease in Africa, T. Nchinda
• Vaccine-Preventable Diseases, A. Mawle
• Travelers' Health, M. Cetron, J. Keystone, D. Shlim, and R. Steffen
• Global Tuberculosis Challenges, K. Castro
• Blood Safety, M.E. Chamberland, J. Epstein, R.Y. Dodd, D. Persing, R.G. Will, A. DeMaria, Jr., J.C. Emmanuel, B. Pierce, and R. Khabbaz
• Confronting Emerging Infections: Lessons from the Smallpox Eradication Campaign, W. Foege
• The Guinea Worm Eradication Effort: Lessons for the Future, D. Hopkins

Populations at Risk

• Nosocomial Infection Update, R. Weinstein
• Opportunistic Infections in Immunodeficient Populations, J. Kaplan, G. Roselle, and K. Sepkowitz
• Host Genes and Infectious Diseases, J. McNicholl
• Immigrant and Refugee Health, S. Cookson, R. Waldman, B. Gushulak, D. MacPherson, F. Burkle, Jr., C. Paquet, E. Kliewer, and P. Walker

Zoonotic and Vector-borne Issues

• Emerging Zoonoses, F. Murphy
• Influenza: An Emerging Disease, R.G. Webster
• Resurgent Vector-Borne Diseases as a Global Health Problem, D. Gubler
• Global Climate Change and Infectious Diseases, R. Colwell, P. Epstein, D. Gubler, M. Hall, P. Reiter, J. Shukla, W. Sprigg, E. Takafuji, and J. Trtanj
• Emerging Zoonoses, J. Childs, R.E. Shope, D. Fish, F.X. Meslin, C. J. Peters, K. Johnson, E. Debess, D. Dennis, and S. Jenkins

Emerging Foodborne Pathogens

• New Approaches to Surveillance and Control of Emerging Foodborne Diseases, R. Tauxe
• FoodNet and Enter-net: Emerging Surveillance Programs for Foodborne Diseases, S. Yang
• Enhancing State Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity for Infectious Diseases, D. Deppe

Communicating the Threat

• International Cooperation, J. LeDuc
• Public Health Surveillance and Information Technology, R. Pinner
• Innovative Information-Sharing Strategies, B. Kay, R.J. Timperi, S.S. Morse, D. Forslund, J.J. McGowan, and T. O’Brien
• Getting the Handle off the Proverbial Pump: Communication Works, L. Folkers, M.T. Cerqueira, R.E. Quick, J. Kanu, and G. Galea
• Communicating Infectious Disease Information to the Public, E. Abrutyn
• APEC Emerging Infections Network: Prospects for Comprehensive Information Sharing on Emerging Infections within the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation, A.M. Kimball, C. Horwitch, P. O’Carroll, S. Arjoso, C. Kunanusont, Y. Lin, C. Meyer, L. Schubert, and P. Dunham

Critical Issues for the Future

• Controversies in the Prevention and Control of Antimicrobial Resistance, D. Bell
• Infectious Causes of Chronic Inflammatory Diseases and Cancer, G. Cassell
• Bioterrorism as a Public Health Threat, D.A. Henderson
• Bioterrorism as a Public Health Threat, J. McDade and D. Franz
• Who Speaks for the Microbes? S. Falkow
• Emerging Diseases—What Now? G. Alleyne
  

Summaries from satellite partnership meetings (March 8-12)

• Plague Diagnostic Workshop, M.C. Chu
• The U.S.–EU Conference on Extension of the Salm/Enter-net Surveillance System for Human Salmonella and E. coli O157 Infections, A. Levitt
• ASM/CDC/NIH Training in Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, K. Western

Letters

• Outbreak of Suspected Clostridium butyricum Botulism in India, R. Chaudhry, B. Dhawan, D. Kumar, R. Bhatia, J.C. Gandhi, R.K. Patel, and B.C. Purohit
• Molecular Analysis of Salmonella paratyphi A From an Outbreak in New Delhi, India, K. Thong, S. Nair, R. Chaudhry, P. Seth, A. Kapil, D. Kumar, H. Kapoor, S. Puthucheary, and T. Pang
• Unrecognized Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever at Mosango Hospital during the 1995 Epidemic in Kikwit, Democratic Republic of the Congo, M. Bonnet, P. Akamituna, and A. Mazaya
• Classification of Reactive Arthritides, D.R. Blumberg and V.S. Sloan
• Reply to Drs. Blumberg and Sloan, J. Lindsay
• Cost of Blood Screening, O. Chang

Book Review

• Emerging Infections, B. Mahy

News and Notes

• CDC To Release Updated Emerging Infectious Disease Plan
• First Congress of the European Society for Emerging Infections, September 13-16, 1998, Budapest, Hungary
• Foodborne Illness: A Disease for All Seasons, October 27 and 28, 1998, Newark, Delaware
• December 1998 International Conference on Antiretroviral Therapy

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