This book will be the first to leverage on recent breakthroughs in the rapid, high-throughput molecular profiling of pathogenic microorganisms, as well as text mining and the growing body of electronic sources of knowledge about the molecular epidemiology of pathogens with epidemic potential. The distinctive feature of this book is that its focus on bioinformatics enabled approaches to pathogen detection, investigation and management of infections. This volume also details new methods of analyzing the genetic and geographic data of pathogens to reconstruct their evolution and to identify the migration routes through which the strains spread regionally and internationally. This book will fill the existing gap in covering the bioinformatics aspects of infectious diseases and will complement numerous successful bioinformatics texts devoted to the mainstream of human genetics and cancer