Pediatric Infectious Disease (An Issue of Infectious Disease Clinics in North America)

Despite an ever increasing array of antimicrobial agents and an expanding vaccination program, infectious diseases remain an important cause of morbidity and mortality in children. This issue will address some of the most important contemporary issues in pediatric infectious diseases, with emphasis on clinical presentation, prevention, and therapy. General chapters on immunization and chemotherapy (antiviral, antibiotic, antiparasitic, and antifungal) will be complemented by discussion of common clinical syndromes, including otitis media, pharyngitis, bronchiolitis and pneumonia, gastroenteritis, bone and joint infections, meningitis, and periodic fevers.

Contents

1. The Clinical Presentation and Outcomes of Children Infected with Newly Identified Respiratory Tract Viruses (Williams)

2. Acute Diarrheal Disease in Children: Epidemiology, Prevention and Treatment (Dennehy)

3. Neonatal Candidiasis: Treatment and Prophylaxis (Benjamin)

4. Fluoroquinolone Antibiotics in Infants and Children (Schaad)

5. The Future of Conjugate Pneumococcal Vaccines

6. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology: A Pediatric Perspective (Zaoutis)

7. The Link Between Bronchiolitis and Asthma (Ruuskanen)

8. Influenza Vaccines in Children (Harper)

9. The Risks and Benefits of Amoxicillin as an Antibiotic for Infants and Children (Toltzis)

10. The Expanded Spectrum of Bartonellosis in Children (Massei)

11. Drug Tolerability and Survival Among Children Receiving HAART for HIV/AIDS (McComsey)

12. The Treatment of Children Exposed to Pathogens Linked to Bioterrorism (Markenson)

13. Implications of MRSA as a Community-Acquired Pathogen in Pediatric Patients (Kaplan)