Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A perspective on emerging zoonoses
  • Pathogenesis and virulence of zoonotic infections in humans
  • The potential "bioweaponization" of zoonotic diseases
  • Xenotransplantation
  • Economic and trade implications of zoonotic diseases
  • Variation and interspecies transmission of influenza A viruses
  • Assessing the threat and the opportunities across the spectrum of zoonotic diseases
  • Practices and policies to protect human health from antibiotic-resistant pathogens
  • Ecological sources of zoonotic diseases
  • Vectorborne zoonotic diseases
  • Mathematical models and predictors of disease outbreaks
  • The role of native birds and other wildlife on the emergence of zoonotic diseases
  • Animal husbandry practices and risk factors, with particular reference to bovine spongiform encephalopathy
  • Natural history of simian immunodeficiency viruses : clues to the emergence and virulence of AIDS viruses
  • Pathology and early recognition of zoonotic disease outbreaks
  • Molecular and other technologies for rapid diagnosis of zoonotic agents
  • Methods and models for pathogen discovery
  • Vaccines for emerging zoonoses : Marburg virus paradigm
  • Public health laboratory surveillance
  • Challenges of vectorborne disease surveillance from the local perspective : west nile virus experience
  • Veterinary surveillance for zoonotic diseases in the United States
  • Petborne zoonoses : detection and surveillance challenges
  • Identification and containment of unknown and rare pathogens
  • Foodborne zoonotic agents : salmonella enteritidis in eggs
  • Legislative and policy concerns in protecting the nation's health.