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Pediatric Infectious Diseases Revisited

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  • © 2007

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Editors:
  1. Horst Schroten

    1. Pediatric Infectious Diseases Department of General Pediatrics, University Children’s Hospital, Düsseldorf, Germany

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  2. Stefan Wirth

    1. Children’s Hospital HELIOS Klinikum, Witten-Herdecke University, Wuppertal, Germany

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  • Presents details from epidemiology to molecular biology
  • Documents recent advances in disease mechanisms and possible interventions
  • Describes new developments in preventive measures
  • Useful information for both clinicians and researchers
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Birkhäuser Advances in Infectious Diseases (BAID)

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Global control of infectious diseases by vaccination programs

    • Rudolf H. Tangermann, Hanna Nohynek, Rudolf Eggers
    Pages 1-41

  3. Potential impact of rotavirus vaccination on the mortality of children in developing countries

    • Duncan Steele
    Pages 43-69

  4. Controversially discussed indications for immunization

    • Sieghart Dittmann
    Pages 71-94

  5. Gonorrheal ophthalmia neonatorum: Historic impact of Credé’s eye prophylaxis

    • Axel Schmidt
    Pages 95-115

  6. Malnutrition and infection in industrialized countries

    • Susanna Cunningham-Rundles, Deborah Ho Lin
    Pages 117-143

  7. Better education through improved health and nutrition: implications for early childhood development programs in developing countries

    • Matthew Jukes
    Pages 145-176

  8. Early childhood caries and childhood periodontal diseases

    • Shigenobu Kimura, Yuko Ohara-Nemoto
    Pages 177-197

  9. Role of the blood-brain barrier and blood-CSF barrier in the pathogenesis of bacterial meningitis

    • Rüdiger Adam, Kwang Sik Kim, Horst Schroten
    Pages 199-237

  10. The molecular basis of paediatric malarial disease

    • Ian A. Clark, Michael J. Griffiths
    Pages 239-272

  11. Epidemiology and etiology of Kawasaki disease

    • Wilbert Mason
    Pages 273-295

  12. Helicobacter pylori infection in children

    • Hien Q. Huynh
    Pages 297-315

  13. Human metapneumovirus infection

    • Adilia Warris, Ronald de Groot
    Pages 317-344

  14. Avian influenza viruses: a severe threat of a pandemic in children?

    • John V. Williams
    Pages 345-363

  15. Human papillomavirus infections in children

    • Nanette B. Silverberg
    Pages 365-390

  16. New treatments for hepatitis B and C in children and adolescents

    • Patrick Gerner
    Pages 391-404

  17. Invasive fungal infections in children: advances and perspectives

    • Andreas H. Groll, Julia Koehler, Thomas J. Walsh
    Pages 405-472

  18. Pediatric aspects of bioterrorism

    • Kwang Sik Kim
    Pages 473-484

  19. Pediatric infectious diseases — Quo vadis 2015?

    • David Nadal
    Pages 485-496

  20. Back Matter

    Pages 497-503
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About this book

The fifth volume of Birkhäuser Advances in Infectious Diseases is focused on pediatric infectious diseases. In modern medicine, the discipline pediatric infectious diseases is an important medical specialty. The successful prevention of childhood dise- es like diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis has made a major contribution to the improvement of public health. Understanding the biology of causative agents and the pathogenesis is an essential step in achieving control and elimination of disease. Today pediatric infectious diseases research is closely interconnected with other disciplines. This volume addresses vaccination, historical, epidemiological and soc- cultural issues as well as clinical and molecular biological aspects of pe- atric infectious diseases. New insights into the pathogenesis of infection are presented and an update on diagnostics, prevention and treatment of pe- atric bacterial, viral, fungal and parasitic diseases is provided. The role of emerging new pathogens is also pointed out. Finally, the future perspectives of pediatric infectious diseases are highlighted. Therefore, this book aims at an interdisciplinary audience of clinicians and non-clinicians: pediatricians, infectious disease researchers, virologists, microbiologists as well as public health scientists and politicians. We would like to sincerely thank the staff of Birkhäuser publishers, and notably Dr. Beatrice Menz, for editing this volume of the Advances in Infectious Diseases series. Most of all we would like to thank all our c- leagues who are international experts and scientists in their respective field and who generously shared their knowledge in the broad interdisciplinary area of pediatric infectious diseases with us.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Pediatric Infectious Diseases Department of General Pediatrics, University Children’s Hospital, Düsseldorf, Germany

    Horst Schroten

  • Children’s Hospital HELIOS Klinikum, Witten-Herdecke University, Wuppertal, Germany

    Stefan Wirth

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