Contents -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Avian Influenza A (H5N1) Virus -- 2. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) -- 3. Human Metapneumovirus -- 4. Changing Patterns of Respiratory Viral Infections in Transplant Recipients -- 5. Monkeypox Virus: Insights on Its Emergence in Human Populations -- 6. West Nile Virus -- 7. Chandipura Encephalitis: a Newly Recognized Disease of Public Health Importance in India -- 8. Emergence of Novel Retroviruses -- 9. Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus -- 10. Carbapenem Resistance in Klebsiella pneumoniae and Other Members of the Family Enterobacteriaceae -- 11. The Emerging Role of Klebsiellae in Liver Abscess -- 12. Conjugate Vaccines as Probes To Define the Burden of Pneumococcal and Haemophilus influenzae Type b Pneumonia as Well as the Role of Viruses in the Pathogenesis of Pneumonia -- 13. Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis and Crohn's Disease -- 14. Zygomycosis -- 15. Emerging Food- and Waterborne Protozoan Diseases -- 16. Multidrug-Resistant Acinetobacter Infections in U.S. Military Personnel, 2003 to 2005 -- 17. Leishmaniasis in American Soldiers: Parasites from the Front -- 18. Smallpox Vaccination: a Review of Adverse Events for Contemporary Health Care Providers -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.