Readings

Emerging Infections 1992 Report (Textbook), Institute of Medicine, pp.34-117.

Module I: OVERVIEW-FACTORS OF EMERGENCE

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1: Overview of Emergence

New York Academy of Sciences. Disease and Evolution: Global Changes and Emergence of Infectious Diseases. M.E. Wilson ed. "Globalization, Development, and the Spread of Disease: The Harvard Working Group on New and Resurgent Diseases". Vol. 740, pp. 160-170.

2: Global Burden of Disease

Murray, Christopher, Lopez, Alan D, "Mortality by cause for eight regions of the world: Global burden of disease study. Lancet, 1997, Vol. 349, pp. 1269-1276

3: Urbanization

Williams, Brian T. "Assessing the Health Impact of Urbanization." World Health Statistics Quarterly, Vol. 43, 1990, pp.145-151.

Cleland, John. "Population growth in the 21st century: Cause for crisis or celebration?" Tropical Medicine and International Health, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1996, pp.15-26.

4: Antibiotic Resistance

Travis, J. "Reviving the Antiobiotic Miracle?" Science, April 15, 1994, 264(5157), pp. 360-365.

Tenover F, Hughes James. "The Challenges of Emerging Infectious Diseases: Development and Spread of Multiply-Resistant Bacterial Pathogens". JAMA, Jan 24/31, 1996, Vol. 275, No. 4, pp. 300-304.

Module II: SUVEILLANCE OF EMERGING INFECTIONS

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5: Surveillance

Leduc, James, Tikhomirov, Eugene, "Global Surveillance for Recognition and Response to Emerging Diseases." Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol. 40, 1994, pp.341-345.

6: Geographical Information Systems

Hagget, Peter. "Geographical Aspects of the Emergence of Infectious Diseases." Geografiska Annaler, 76 B(2), 1994, pp.91-104.

7: Eurosurveillance

Hastings L., Vurnens A, De Johg, B, Ward L, Fisher I, Stuart J, Bartlett C, Rowe B. "Salm-Net facilitates collaborative investigation of an outbreak of Salmonella tosamanga infection in Europe". Communicable Disease Report, Vol. 6, 1996.

Module III: SPECIFIC EMERGING DISEASES

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8: Global TB Picture

Blower, S.M., et al. "Control Strategies for Tuberculosis epidemics: New models for old problems." Science, Vol. 273(5724), 1996, pp. 497-500.

Kenyon, T.A., et al. " Transmission of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis during a long airplane flight." New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 334, No. 15, 1996, pp. 933-938.

9: BSE and Avian Flu

Nathanson N, Wilesmith J, Griot C. "Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE): Causes and Consequences of a Common Source Epidemic". American Journal of Epidemiology, Vol. 145, No. 11, 1997, pp. 959-969.

10: Vector-Borne Emerging Disease

Gubler, D.J. "Epidemic Dengue and Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever: a Global Public Health Problem in the 21st Century". Emerging Infections I, pp. 1-12.

Gubler, D.J. "The global resurgence of arboviral diseases". Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 1996, (90) 449-451.

Dennis, David T. "Lyme Disease". Dermatoepidemiology, Vol. 13, Number 3, 1995, pp. 527-547 (optional).

Centers for Disease Control.. "Lyme Disease - United States, 1996". Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, Vol. 46, Number 23, 1997 (optional).

11: Emerging STDs

Holmes, K. "Human Ecology and Behavior and Sexually Transmitted Bacterial Infections". Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 91, March 1994, pp. 2448-2455.

12: Food Borne Diseases

Armstrong, Gregory L. "Emerging Foodborne Pathogens: Escherichia coli 0157:H7 as a Model of Entry of a New Pathogen into the Food Supply of the Developed World." Epidemiologic Reviews, Vol. 18, No. 1, 1996, pp.29-51.

MODULE IV: PREVENTION/CONTROL

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13: Health Market and Emergence of New Infections

Mainous, A.G., et al. "Antibiotics and upper respiratory infection: Do some folks think there is a cure for the common cold?" Journal of Family Practice, Vol. 42, No.4, 1996, pp.357-361.

14: Role of WHO

Heymann, D.L. "Infectious Diseases: Still a Threat at the Turn of the Century."

Heymann, D.L.. "Challenges - Reemerging pathogens and diseases out of control." The Lancet, Vol. 349, June 1997. (summary)

15: Prospects for Prevention

Wilson M. "Travel and the Emergence of Infectious Diseases". Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol 1, Number 2, April-June 1995.

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