Pediatric Infectious Diseases Revisited

1. Front Matter

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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

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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.

• Hepatitis
• Malaria
• avian influenza
• bacteria
• childhood
• diseases
• fungal infection
• helicobacter pylori
• infection
• infections
• infectious
• infectious disease
• infectious diseases
• nutrition
• pathogenesis

• 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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