Journal of Molecular Diagnostics, April 10, 2008 This review presents representative emerging viral respiratory infections, hemorrhagic fevers and hepatitides, as well as bacterial and parasitic zoonotic, gastrointestinal and pulmonary infections. Agent characteristics, epidemiology, clinical manifestations and diagnostic methods are tabulated for another 22 emerging viruses and five emerging bacteria. Authors are Jianli Dong, Juan P. Olano, Jere W. McBride and David H. Walker, of the UTMB Departments of Pathology, and Microbiology and Immunology