Starting with historical, epidemiological and sociocultural issues, this book presents clinical and molecular biological aspects of pediatric infectious diseases. The text offers new insights into the pathogenesis of infection, and updates on diagnostics, prevention and treatment of pediatric viral, fungal and bacterial diseases, as well as emerging new pathogens. The book will interest an interdisciplinary audience of clinicians and non-clinicians: pediatricians, infectious disease researchers, virologists, microbiologists and more.

InhaltsangabeGlobal control of infectious diseases by vaccination programs.- Potential impact of rotavirus vaccination on the mortality of children in developing countries.- Controversially discussed indications for immunization.- Gonorrheal ophthalmia neonatorum: historic impact of Credé's eye prophylaxis.- Malnutrition and infection in industrialized countries.- Better education through improved health and nutrition: Implications for early childhood development programs in developing countries.- Early childhood caries [ECC] and childhood periodontal diseases.- Role of the blood-brain barrier and blood-CSF barrier in the pathogenesis of bacterial meningitis.- The molecular basis of paediatric malarial disease.- Epidemiology and etiology of Kawasaki disease.- Helicobacter pylori infection in children.- Human metapneumovirus infection.- Avian influenza viruses: a severe threat of a pandemic in children?- Human papillomavirus infections in children.- New treatments for hepatitis B and C in children and adolescents.- Invasive fungal infections in children: advances and perspectives.- Pediatric aspects of bioterrorism.- Pediatric infectious diseases - Quo vadis 2015?