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Contributors ixForeword xvPreface xviiAcknowledgments xix1 West Africa 2013: Re-examining Ebola 1Daniel G. Bausch and Amanda Rojek2 Preparing for Serious Communicable Diseases in the United States: What the Ebola Virus Epidemic Has Taught Us 39Jay B. Varkey and Bruce S. Ribner3 Ebola Virus Disease: Therapeutic and Potential Preventative Opportunities 53Robert Fisher and Luciana Borio4 Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) 73Sonja A. Rasmussen, Amelia K. Watson, and David L. Swerdlow5 The Emergence of Enterovirus D-68 105Kevin Messacar, Mark J. Abzug, and Samuel R. Dominguez6 The Role of Punctuated Evolution in the Pathogenicity of Influenza Viruses 121Jonathan A. McCullers7 Measles in the United States since the Millennium: Perils and Progress in the Postelimination Era 131Anne Schuchat, Amy Parker Fiebelkorn, and William Bellini8 Chikungunya Virus: Current Perspectives on a Reemerging Virus 143Clayton R. Morrison, Kenneth S. Plante, and Mark T. Heise9 Zika Virus Disease 163Werner Slenczka10 West Nile Virus Infection 175James J. Sejvar11 Mobilization of Carbapenemase-Mediated Resistance in Enterobacteriaceae 201Amy Mathers12 Antimicrobial Resistance Expressed by Neisseria gonorrhoeae: A Major Global Public Health Problem in the 21st Century 213Magnus Unemo, Carlos del Rio, and William M. Shafer13 Bordetella holmesii: Still Emerging and Elusive 20 Years On 239Laure F. Pittet and Klara M. Posfay-Barbe14 Cronobacter spp. 255Brian P. Blackwood and Catherine J. Hunter15 Clostridium difficile Infection 265Jae Hyun Shin, Esteban Chaves-Olarte, and Cirle A. Warren16 Emerging Tick-Borne Bacterial Pathogens 295Tahar Kernif, Hamza Leulmi, Didier Raoult, and Philippe Parola17 Bordetella pertussis 311Delma J. Nieves and Ulrich Heininger18 Invasive Infections with Nontyphoidal Salmonella in Sub-Saharan Africa 341Barbara E. Mahon and Patricia I. Fields19 Fungal Infections Associated with Contaminated Steroid Injections 359Carol A. Kauffman and Anurag N. Malani20 Emerging Fungal Infections in the Pacific Northwest: The Unrecognized Burden and Geographic Range of Cryptococcus gattii and Coccidioides immitis 375Shawn R. Lockhart, Orion Z. McCotter, and Tom M. Chiller21 The Emerging Amphibian Fungal Disease, Chytridiomycosis: A Key Example of the Global Phenomenon of Wildlife Emerging Infectious Diseases 385Jonathan E. Kolby and Peter Daszak22 Artemisinin-Resistant Plasmodium falciparum Malaria 409Rick M. Fairhurst and Arjen M. DondorpIndex 431