Microbiology 128C
A Substantial Writing Component Course:
Emerging Infectious Diseases

Dr. Leanne Field

* Fall Semester 1998 *

Web Sites | Online Publications | Books on Reserve

Web sites:

• All the Virology on the WWW

• ASM

  The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) is the oldest and largest single life science membership organization in the world. ASM represents 24 disciplines of microbiological specialization plus a division for microbiology educators.

• CDC - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Home Page
  • The National Center for Infectious Diseases Home Page
  • Emerging Infectious Diseases - A peer reviewed journal published by The National Center for Infectious Diseases
• MMWR - Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, electronic edition.

• Disease Prevention News

The Texas Department of Health has published Disease Prevention News (DPN) for over fifty years. Distributed twice a month, the DPN newsletter provides health care professionals throughout the state of Texas with a wide variety of timely public health information, including Texas morbidity and mortality data.

• Emerging Infections Information Network (EllNet)

This is an Internet Forum established by the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale University School of Medicine.

This forum serves as a means of addressing various issues discussed in the EIINet seminars. Each week new comments, ideas and questions relevant to the topic of the week are posted on this forum.

• Medscape

  Medscape is an interactive multi-specialty site that pools information from clinical journals, medical news providers, medical education programs, and material created expressly for Medscape.

• OutBreak

Outbreak is an on-line information service addressing emerging diseases.

• ProMED

The Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases (ProMED) was proposed by the Federation of American Scientists specifically to create a global system of early detection and timely response to disease outbreaks.

• WHO

  The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations with 191 Member States, WHO promotes technical cooperation for health among nations, carries out programs to control and eradicate disease and strives to improve the quality of human life.

• Weekly Epidemiological Record (WER) - Electronic version of the Weekly Epidemiological Record (WER) published by the World Health Organization (WHO).

Online Publications:

Addressing Emerging Infectious Disease Threats

The NIAID Research Agenda for Emerging Infectious Diseases

Global Microbial Threats in the 1990s: Report of the NSTC Committee on International Science and Technology (CISET) Working Group on Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases

Books on Reserve for Micro 128C at the Life Science Library

(Before checking out reserve materials, remember to write down the call number.

Antimicrobial Resistance: Issues and Options by Polly F. Harrison and Joshua Lederberg, eds.
call #: QR 177 A584 1998

The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World out of Balance by Farrar, Straus, and Girous.
call #: RA 651 G37 1994

Cryptococcus Neoformans by Arturo Casadevall, et. al.
call #: RC 186 T7 C37 1998

Emerging Infections by W. M. Scheld, D. Armstrong, and J.M. Hughes.
call #: RC 109 E44 No. 1

Emerging Infections by R.M. Krause.
call #: RA 651 E46 1998

Emerging Infections: Microbial Threats to Health in the United States by the Institute of Medicine.
call #: RA 643.5 E43 1992

Emerging Viruses by S.S. Morse.
call #: RA 644 V55 E44 1996

Escherichia Coli O157:H7 and Other Shiga Toxin-Producing E. Coli Strains, James B. Kaper, Alison D. O'Brien, eds.
call #: QR 201 E82 E83 1998

HIV and the Pathogenesis of AIDS, 2nd ed by J.A. Levy.
call #: QR 201 A37 L48 1998 

Infectious Diseases in an Age of Change: The Impact of Human Ecology and Behavior on Disease Transmission, Bernard Roizman, ed.
call #: RA 643 I654 1995

Malaria: Parasite Biology, Pathogenesis, and Protection by Irwin W. Sherman.
call #: RC 156 M389 1998

Pathology of Emerging Infections by C.R. Horsburgh, Jr.
call #: RC 111 P39 1997

Researching and Writing in the Sciences and Technology by Christine Hult.
call #: Q 180.55 M4 H85 1996

Short Guide to Writing About Biology by Jan Pechenik.
call #: QH 304 P43 1997

Writing Papers in the Biological Sciences by Vicky McMillan.
call #: QH 304 M36 1997

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This course was developed by Dr. Leanne H. Field (August, 1998)
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