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Emerging Infections: Microbial Threats to Health in the United States (1992)
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Emerging Infections: Microbial Threats to Health in the United States

B

Babesiosis, 76, 248-249

Bacillus microbial control agents, 102

Bacteria, 53, 63

genetic changes, 89-92

listing of, 36-37, 199-217 passim

virulence factors, 89-90, 91

see also specific types

Behavioral factors, 1, 14, 48, 67, 167-168

see also Diet;

Drug abuse;

Land use factors;

Sexual behavior;

Travel

Beta-lactam antibiotics, 94

Bilge water, 81, 107

Biological control agents, 165

Biorational pesticides, 165

Biotechnology, 20

attenuated organisms, 153-154

Birds, 30

Black Death, 17

Blood contamination, 59, 60, 78n

Body lice, 112

Borrelia burgdorferi, 28, 72, 76, 200-202

Botulism, 66

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), 64-65, 217-218

Brazilian purpuric fever, 90-92, 208

Bubonic plague, 17, 22

C

Caliciviruses, 46-47

California, vector control in, 162

California serogroup viruses, 218-219

Campylobacter jejuni, 202-203

Candida, 249-250

Catheterization, 59

Cell lines, and virus infection, 82, 84

Cellulitis, 199-200

Centers for Disease Control (CDC), 9, 11, 130, 131, 147-148, 164

Division of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases, 162

Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS), 9, 148

Field Epidemiology Training Program (FETP), 9, 148

Foreign Quarantine Division, 23

Hospital Infections Program, 4, 58, 121

Immunization Practices Advisory Committee (ACIP), 153

National Center for Infectious Diseases (NCID), 9, 147

National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance System (NNISS), 4, 58 , 121-122

National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS), 3, 118-120

overseas labs, 126, 262-263

quarantine stations, 22-23

surveillance activities, 5, 118-123, 131, 138-139

vaccine purchase, 153-138

Cervical cancer, 105-106

Ceviche, 69, 107

Chickens, 19

Chikungunya virus, 44, 219-220

Children, vaccination of, 138, 155

China

influenza monitoring, 130

schistosomiasis outbreak, 112

Chlamydia spp., 36, 105, 203-205

Chloroquine, 29, 100-101

Cholera, 68, 107-108, 139, 215-216

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