Perspective
Synopses
Hantaviruses: A Global Disease Problem , C. Schmaljohn and B.
Hjelle
Japanese Spotted Fever: Report of 31 Cases and Review of the
Literature ,* F. Mahara
This article is also available in Japanese
Polycystic Kidney Disease: An Unrecognized Emerging Infectious
Disease? M.A. Miller-Hjelle, J.T. Hjelle, M. Jones, W.R. Mayberry, M.A.
Dombrink-Kurtzman, S.W. Peterson, D.M. Nowak, and F.S. Darras
Borna Disease , C.G.Hatalski,A.J.Lewis,and W.I. Lipkin
The Rickettsia: an Emerging Group of Pathogens in Fish , J.L.
Fryer and M.J. Mauel
Rhodococcus equi and Arcanobacterium haemolyticum :
Two "Coryneform"Bacteria Increasingly Recognized as Agents of Human Infection ,
R. Linder
Is Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Transmitted in Blood? M.N.
Ricketts, N.R. Cashman, E.E. Stratton, S. ElSaadany
Dispatches
A New Tick-borne Encephalitis-like Virus Infecting New England
Deer Ticks, Ixodes dammini , S.R. Telford III, P.M. Armstrong, P. Katavolos, I.
Foppa, A.S.O. Garcia, M.L. Wilson, A. Spielman
An Unusual Hantavirus Outbreak in Southern Argentina:
Person-to-Person Transmission? R.M. Wells, S.S. Estani, Z.E. Yadon, D. Enria, P.
Padula, N. Pini, J.N. Mills, C.J. Peters, E.L. Segura, and the Hantavirus Pulmonary
Syndrome Study Group for Patagonia
Pertussis in the Netherlands: an Outbreak Despite High Levels of
Immunization with Whole-Cell Vaccine , H.E. de Melker, M.A.E. Conyn-van Spaendonck,
H.C. Rümke, J.K. van Wijngaarden, F.R. Mooi, and J.F.P. Schellekens
Invasive Haemophilus influenzae type b Disease in Elderly
Nursing Home Residents: Two Related Cases , T.C. Heath, M.C. Hewitt, B. Jalaludin, C.
Roberts, A.G. Capon, P. Jelfs, and G.L. Gilbert
Seroepidemiologic Studies of Hantavirus Infection Among Wild Rodents
in California , M. Jay, M.S. Ascher, B.B. Chomel, M. Madon, D. Sesline, B.A. Enge, B.
Hjelle, T.G. Ksiazek, P. E. Rollin, P.H. Kass, and K. Reilly
Gestational Psittacosis in a Montana Sheep Rancher , D.M.
Jorgensen
Lack of Serologic Evidence for an Association between Cache Valley
Virus Infection and Anencephaly and Other Neural Tube Defects in Texas , J.F. Edwards
and K. Hendricks
Rabies Postexposure Prophylaxis Survey Kentucky , M. Auslander
and C. Kaelin
Commentary
From the 1st International Conference on Emerging Zoonoses
The articles in this section were originally presented at the 1st International Conference
on Emerging Zoonoses, Jerusalem, Israel, November 24-28, 1996. The conference was
cosponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Israel Center for
Disease Control.
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