Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments 1 : Enterovirus 71, an Emerging Virus / Monto Ho 2 : West Nile Virus Infection in New York City: the Public Health Perspective / Denis Nash, Neal Cohen, Marcelle Layton 3 : Q Fever: Queries Remaining after Decades of Research / D. Raoult, J.-L. Mege, T. Marrie 4 : Emerging from Obscurity: Understanding Pulmonary and Extrapulmonary Syndromes, Pathogenesis, and Epidemiology of Human Mycoplasma pneumoniae Infections / Deborah F. Talkington, Stephanie B. Schwartz, Richard E. Besser, Ken B. Waites 5 : Community-Onset Oxacillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infection / Julie Louise Gerberding, Henry F. Chambers 6 : Electron Transport-Deficient Staphylococcus aureus Small-Colony Variants as Emerging Pathogens / Richard A. Proctor, Donna M. Bates, Peter J. McNamara 7 : Clindamycin-Resistant Clostridium difficile / Dale N. Gerding, Stuart Johnson 8 : Water-Transmissible Diseases and Hemodialysis / Luis Fernando A. Camargo, Miguel Cendoroglo Neto, Maria Eugênia Canziani, Sérgio Antônio Draibe 9 : Mycobacterium ulcerans Infection and Buruli Ulcer Disease: Emergence of a Public Health Dilemma / C. Harold King, Karen M. Dobos, David A. Ashford, Ellen A. Spotts Whitney, Pratima L. Raghunathan, Jeannette Guarner, Jordan W. Tappero 10 : Borrelia: a Diverse and Ubiquitous Genus of Tick-Borne Pathogens / Alan G. Barbour 11 : Emerging Perspectives on Human Babesiosis / Anne M. Kjemtrup, Patricia A. Conrad 12 : Amebiasis, an Emerging Disease / Mehmet Tanyuksel, Hiroshi Tachibana, William A. Petri 13 : Bioterrorism: a Real Modern Threat / Michael T. Osterholm 14 : Bioterrorist Threats: What the Infectious Disease Community Should Know about Anthrax and Plague / Thomas V. Inglesby -- Index -- Color Plates.