David Schlossberg – Clinical Infectious Disease (Second edition)

Автор: David Schlossberg
Название книги: Clinical Infectious Disease (Second edition)
Формат: PDF
Жанр: Медицина
Страницы: 2620
Качество: Изначально компьютерное, E-book

A fully updated version of this popular, clinically oriented, user-friendly text on infectious disease, with even more helpful graphics, tables, algorithms and images. It is packed full of information on diagnosis, differential diagnosis and therapy. In addition to the traditional organization of organ-system and pathogen-related information, this text also includes clinically helpful sections on the susceptible host (with individual chapters, for example, on the diabetic, the elderly, the injection drug user and the neonate), infections related to travel, infections related to surgery and trauma, nosocomial infection and bioterrorism. Positioned between the available encyclopedic tomes and the smaller pocket guides, this is a convenient, comprehensive and highly practical reference for all those practising in infectious diseases as well as internal or general medicine.

The gratifying response to Clinical Infectious Disease has prompted this second edition.
As with the first edition, our goal remains a complete and user-friendly guide to the
diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases.
The book is divided into 10 sections. First, Clinical syndromes, both general and by
organ system, provides a traditional anatomic orientation, although within this section
additional chapters are devoted to particularly challenging entities that are often difficult
to research, such as infectious thyroiditis, deep neck infection, periocular infection,
lymphadenopathy, mediastinitis, pacemaker infection, sexually transmitted enteric
infection, bursitis, polyarthritis, psoas abscess, splenic abscess, spinal epidural abscess,
cerebrospinal shunt infection, myelitis and peripheral neuropathy, and prion disease.
The second section, The susceptible host, includes individual chapters on infection in
various immunocompromised states, including diabetes, transplantation, neutropenia,
dialysis, pregnancy, and asplenia. Subsequent entire sections are devoted to HIV,
nosocomial infection, surgery and trauma, prophylaxis, travel and recreation, and
bioterrorism.
Organism-specific chapters follow, with individual chapters for specific bacteria,
viruses, fungi, parasites, and other pathogens. Finally, a major section on antimicrobial
therapy includes chapters on principles of antibiotic therapy, antifungal therapy, antiviral
therapy, and hypersensitivity to antibiotics. A final chapter lists antimicrobial agents in
tabular form, providing a convenient reference for dosage, side effects, cost, pregnancy
class, effect of food, and dose adjustment for renal dysfunction. All chapters include
suggested readings.
For this new edition every chapter has been updated, and four new chapters have been
added: Tungiasis and bedbugs (in Skin and lymph nodes), Biologics (in Compromised
host), Antibacterial agents (in Antimicrobial therapy), and Probiotics (in Antimicrobial
therapy).
We hope this text continues to provide a practical, clinically oriented, and convenient
resource for the diagnosis and treatment of infectious disease.
I am enormously grateful for the vision, talent, and dedication of the staff at Cambridge
University Press, particularly Richard Marley, Jane Seakins, Rob Sykes, Ross Higman,
Sarah Payne, Anne Kenton, and Ed Robinson