Emerging Infections and Children: Influenza and Acute Necrotizing Encephalopathy -- Chickenpox Party or Varicella Vaccine? -- The ABC of Epstein-Barr Virus Infections -- The Immune Response to Viral Lower Respiratory Tract Infection -- Chronic Granulomatous Disease: From Genetic Defect to Clinical Presentation -- Novel Primary Immunodeficiencies -- Periodic Fever -- BCG Vaccine -- Helminth Infections of Children: Prospects for Control -- Rabies on the Doorstep -- Prevention of Typhoid Fever -- Dexamethasone in the Treatment of Pediatric Bacterial Meningitis in Developing Countries: Is it Beneficial? -- Should Dexamethasone be Part of Routine Therapy of Bacterial Meningitis in Industrialised Countries? -- How to Interpret a CSF—The Art and the Science -- Reverse Vaccinology and Vaccines for Serogroup B Neisseria meningitidis.

Hot Topics in Infection and Immunity II provides a current view from leading experts concerning the hottest topics of concern to clinicians caring for children with infections. The book brings together a collection of manuscripts from a faculty of authors of international standing who contributed to a course in Paediatric Infection and Immunity in Oxford, UK in June 2004.