Hot Topics in Infection and Immunity in Children V

2. Shiga-Toxin Producing Escherichia coli and the Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome: What Have We Learned in the Past 25 Years?
Christina K. Ahn, Nicholas J. Holt, Phillip I. Tarr

3. Global Epidemiology of Pneumococcal Disease—New Prospects for Vaccine Control
Vinicius C. Antao, William P. Hausdorff

4. Current Concepts of the Pathogenesis of RSV Bronchiolitis
Louis Bont

5. How Can We Eradicate Pertussis
James D. Cherry

6. Recognition and Management of Encephalitis in Children
James D. Cherry

7. Microbiology and Management of Pleural Empyema
Julia Clark

8. Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccines Probe Studies: The Solution Points to the Problem
Ron Dagan

9. New Findings in Primary Immunodeficiency
Andrew R. Gennery, Andrew J. Cant

10. Routine Use of Influenza Vaccine
David Isaacs

11. Challenges in the Evaluation and Management of Bone and Joint Infections and the Role of New Antibiotics for Gram Positive Infections
Sheldon L. Kaplan

12. The Significance of Serotype Replacement for Pneumococcal Disease and Antibiotic Resistance
Keith P. Klugman

13. Childhood Intra-thoracic Tuberculosis
Ben J. Marais

14. The Antibiotic Pipeline in Pediatrics
George H. McCracken

15. Paediatric Drug Development and Clinical Trials
E. David G. McIntosh

16. Influenza in Pregnancy: The Case for Prevention
Shelly McNeil, Beth Halperin, Noni MacDonald

17. Febrile Neutropenia in Children with Cancer
Stéphane Paulus, Simon Dobson

18. The PANDAS Syndrome
Michael E. Pichichero

19. Fever in the Returned Paediatric Traveller
F. Andrew I. Riordan

20. Molecular Diagnostics of Primary Immunodeficiencies: Benefits and Future Challenges
Mirjam Burg, Menno C. Zelm, Jacques J.M. Dongen

21. Human Genetic Resistance to Malaria
Thomas N. Williams

Keywords: Biomedicine, Immunology, Virology, Microbiology, Infectious Diseases