title: Emerging viral infections.
abstract: The past decade has witnessed the emergence of several significant viral pathogens and the further evolution of additional viral pathogens. Transmitted by a variety of differing routes, these organisms have presented substantial intellectual challenges to medicine of the 20th and 21st centuries. As perhaps the benchmark pathogen of the past decade, HIV has provided medicine and society with a most formidable opponent, and one that has yet to be fully conquered. Nonetheless, a variety of additional viral pathogens have also perplexed medicine over the past 10-15 years.
authors.affiliation: Office of the Deputy Director for Clinical Care, Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA.
authors.forename: L M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: D K
authors.initials: DK
authors.lastname: Henderson
mesh_terms: D021821:Communicable Diseases, Emerging / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D007562:Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy; D018778:Hantavirus Infections / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy; D019142:Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D006526:Hepatitis C / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy; D015654:Herpesvirus 6, Human; D016199:Herpesvirus 7, Human; D019288:Herpesvirus 8, Human; D006801:Humans; D009103:Multiple Sclerosis / Q000209:etiology; D014777:Virus Diseases / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D014901:West Nile Fever / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology