Full Description
This timely book explores the growing range of infections which provide changing and often unfamiliar problems of recognition and management in the present world. The authors take a broad, practical approach that combines clinical, laboratory, and epidemiological aspects. Clinical photographs are included, as well as tabular summaries, algorithms, and recent epidemiological data. The infections discussed, which are grouped systematically by major syndrome, include many recently recognized problems such as AIDS and Lyme disease, imported and major tropical diseases, and the growing range of difficult infections resulting from new medical and surgical procedures, immunocompromise, the use of blood and blood products, and transplantation.
Contents
Introduction to infections; Infections of the respiratory tract; Localised skin and tissue infections; Infections of the gastrointestinal tract; Infections of abdominal organs; Infections of the nervous system; Septicaemia and shock; Infections with generalised rash; Fever, tuberculosis, and brucellosis; Imported infections; Infection in pregnancy and neonates; Infections of the genital tract; Illness after acute infection; Epidemiology in action; Prevention of infection: Immunisation and malaria prophylaxis; Specific drug treatment of pathogens; Infection and the laboratories; Infection in the tropics.
