The challenge of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases

Nature

Volumn 430, Issue 6996, 2004, Pages 242-249

  Morens, David M ^a   Folkers, Gregory K ^a   Fauci, Anthony S ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIOLOGY; HANDICAPPED PERSONS; HEALTH CARE; MICROORGANISMS;

INFECTIOUS DISEASES; PATHOGENS;

DISEASES;

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CHLORPHENOTANE; DNA VACCINE; INSECTICIDE; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS VACCINE; METICILLIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT; VANCOMYCIN; VIRUS VACCINE;

EVOLUTION; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; MEDICINE; PATHOGEN;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ANTHRAX; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BOTULISM; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHRONIC DISEASE; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; CYCLOSPORA CAYETANENSIS; DENGUE; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA MICROARRAY; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION; INFLUENZA VIRUS A; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; MALARIA; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MENINGITIS; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NIPAH VIRUS; NONHUMAN; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PARASITISM; PLAGUE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLIOMYELITIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SMALLPOX; STOMACH CANCER; STOMACH ULCER; TERRORISM; TUBERCULOSIS; TULAREMIA; VIRUS INFECTION; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; BIOTERRORISM; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DRUG RESISTANCE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS;

ANTHRAX; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CAMPYLOBACTER; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; CYCLOSPORA CAYETANENSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HAEMOPHILUS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HELICOBACTER; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; LEGIONELLA; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NIPAH VIRUS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; VARIOLA VIRUS;

EID: 3142654211     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02759     Document Type: Review

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