Hot Topics in Infection and Immunity in Children VIII

1. Our Time of Pestilence: Purchasing Immunity and Ignoring the Misery of Others
Philip Alcabes

2. Neonatal Meningitis: Can We Do Better?
Paul T. Heath, Ifeanyichukwu O. Okike, Clarissa Oeser

3. Approaches Towards Avoiding Lifelong Antiretroviral Therapy in Paediatric HIV Infection
Philip J. R. Goulder, Andrew J. Prendergast

4. How Short Is Long Enough for Treatment of Bone and Joint Infection?
Markus Pääkkönen, Heikki Peltola

5. What’s New in Diagnostic Testing and Treatment Approaches for Mycoplasma pneumoniae Infections in Children?
Ken B. Waites

6. Pigs, Poultry, and Pandemic Influenza: How Zoonotic Pathogens Threaten Human Health
Thijs Kuiken, Ron Fouchier, Guus Rimmelzwaan, Judith Brand, Debby Riel, Albert Osterhaus

7.
Kingella kingae Infections in Children: An Update
Inbal Weiss-Salz, Pablo Yagupsky

8. Influenza Pandemics
Ruth Elderfield, Wendy Barclay

9. Management of Shunt Related Infections
Mona Al-Dabbagh, Simon Dobson

10. Nontuberculous Lymphadenopathy in Children: Using the Evidence to Plan Optimal Management
Julia E. Clark

11. Pediatric Brucellosis: An (Almost) Forgotten Disease
Pablo Yagupsky

12. Q Fever: Still More Queries than Answers
Corine E. Delsing, Adilia Warris, Chantal P. Bleeker-Rovers

13. Rickettsioses in Children: A Clinical Approach
Emmanouil Galanakis, Maria Bitsori

14. What is the Evidence Behind Recommendations for Infection Control?
Christina Gagliardo, Lisa Saiman

15. What Do We Know About How to Treat Tuberculosis?
Ben J. Marais

16. Bacterial Meningitis in Childhood
Manish Sadarangani, Andrew J. Pollard

17.
Mycobacterium marinum Infection
Marc Tebruegge, Nigel Curtis

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