Hot Topics in Infection and Immunity in Children

1. Of Vaccination and Infectious Diseases in 2003.- 2. New Antibiotics and Bacterial Resistance.- 3. New Antivirals and Antiviral Resistance.- 4. Mucosal Immunity to Infections and its Importance in Future Vaccinology.- 5. Dynamics of Bacterial Carriage and Disease: Lessons from the Meningococcus.- 6. Current Management of Bacterial Meningitis.- 7. Congenital Syphilis Resurgent.- 8. Antibiotics for Acute Otitis Media in the Era of Antibiotic Resistance—What are the Choices?.- 9. Bone and Joint Infections in Children.- 10. Sepsis Syndrome in Children: Can We Do Better?.- 11. Prevention of Enteric Diseases.- 12. Viral Hepatitis in Children.- 13. Controversies in Neonatal Infection.- 14. Bacterial and Fungal Infections in the Neonate: Current Diagnosis and Therapy.- 15. Pertussis is Back and Now What?.- 16. The Immunocompromised Host: The Patient with Recurrent Infection.- 17. Febrile Neutropenia: Past, Present, and Future.- 18. Malaria.- 19. HIV-1 Infection in Children: Current Practice and Future Predictions.- 20. Preventing Perinatal Transmission of HIV—Are We Doing Enough?.- 21. Congenital Cytomegalovirus Infection: Epidemiology and Treatment.- 22. Global Control of Rotavirus Disease.- 23. RSV and Influenza.- 24. Encephalitis—Beyond Aciclovir.- 25. Current Issues in Managing Group A Streptococcal Infections.- 26. Kawasaki Disease and Toxic Shock Syndrome—At Last the Etiology is Clear?.- 27. The Last of the Meningococcus?.- 28. The Potential of Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccines to Reduce Antibiotic Resistance.- 29. Is Haemophilus influenzae Type b Disease Finished?.- 30. Strategies for Preventing Group B Streptococcal Disease.- 31. Recent Advances in the Therapy Against Invasive Aspergillosis.