Full Description
This book provides a comprehensive overview of diagnostic imaging in infectious diseases. It starts with a general review of infectious diseases, including their classification, characteristics and epidemiology. In separate chapters, the authors then introduce the radionuclide imaging of 50 kinds of infectious diseases. Volume 1 covers 21 viral infections. Volume 2 has 29 chapters discussing 24 bacterial infections and 5 parasitic infections. Each disease is clearly illustrated using cases combined with high-quality computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The book provides a valuable reference source for radiologists and doctors working in the area of infectious diseases.
Contents
Radiology.- Ultrasonography.- Radionuclide imaging .- Past, Present and Future of Infectious Diseases.- Classification of the Infectious Diseases.- Genetic Basis of Infectious Diseases.- Infection and Immunity.- Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases.- Features of Infectious Diseases.- Acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis.- Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease.- Dengue Fever.- Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever.- Epidemic encephalitis B.- Epidemic Hemorrhagic Fever.- Epidemic parotitis.- Hand-foot-mouth disease.- Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza.- HIV/AIDS .- Infectious atypical pneumonia.- Influenza.- Influenza A (H1N1).- Measles.- Nipah Virus Encephalitis.- Poliomyelitis.- Rabies.- Rubella.- Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome.- Varicella and herpes zoster.- Viral Hepatitis.
