In this issue of Infectious Disease Clinics of North America, guest editors Drs. Puja Van Epps and David H. Canaday bring their considerable expertise to the to

With the expanding aging population in both the United States and worldwide, health issues associated with aging are major personal and public health concerns.

Because aging is accompanied by a steady decline in resistance to infectious diseases, the diagnosis and treatment of these diseases in the elderly is not only

Infections are a major cause of mortality in the elderly, and because the geriatric population is the fastest growing group in the United States, infections in