Title page -- Opening Remarks -- Contents -- Biological Threat Caused by Emerging and Re-Emerging Infections -- Interrelationships of Emerging Bacterial and Viral Infections in Hungary Before the Introduction of Active Immunisation -- Response to the HIV-Related Challenges in Lithuania -- Emerging Viral Hepatitis B and C in Estonia -- Epidemiology of Influenza A(H1N1) as One of Emerging-Reemerging Diseases -- West Nile and Other Emerging-Reemerging Viruses in Russia -- Natural Foci of Classical and Emerging Viral Zoonoses in Hungary -- Coronavirus Causing Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), a New Highly Infectious Emerging Threat -- Antiviral Drugs for Treatment of Herpes B Virus Infections -- Tick-Borne Bacterial Diseases in Hungary -- Emerging or Re-Emerging Virus Diseases: Genetic Variation, Immune Failure or Human Mistake -- Development of the Diagnostic Technology to Cope with Emerging Threat More Efficiently -- Real-Time PCR for Detection of Parenterally Transmissible Viruses -- Diagnostics Development Research Within the U.S. Biological Defense Research Programme -- New Molecular Targets for Control of Yersinia Pestis Infection -- Enhanced Concentration and Extraction of Bacillus Anthracis DNA from Whole Blood -- Biological Toxins and Super-Antigens as an Emerging Biological Threat -- Application of Genomics and Proteomics for Detection Assay Development for Biological Agents of Mass Destruction -- Development of Reagent Kits for Detection of Lethal Toxins -- Bioterrorism as an Emerging and Reemerging Biological Threat -- Strategies for the Detection of Unknown Biological Materials -- Clinical Aspects of Bioterrorism (Anthrax, Plague and Smallpox) -- Clinical Virologists and the Smallpox-Threat: A Comparison Between Germany and the UK -- Genetic Attributes for Tracking Unconventional Microorganisms.

An Attempt to Characterize Some Soil and Health Relevant Bacteria by FT-IR Spectroscopy -- Advanced Medical Technologies Against Bioterrorism -- Science for Peace Means International Cooperation to Control and Prevent Emerging Natural or Bio-Terror Virus Epidemics with Attention to the HIV-1/AIDS Pandemic -- Contributors -- Author Index.