Diagnosis and treatment of human mycoses / edited by Duane R. Hospenthal, Michael G. Rinaldi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hospenthal, Duane R.

Rinaldi, Michael G.

Series:

Infectious disease (Totowa, N.J.)

Infectious disease

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mycoses--Diagnosis.

Mycoses.

Mycoses--Treatment.

Medical mycology.

Mycoses--diagnosis.

Mycoses--therapy.

Medical Subjects:

Mycoses--diagnosis.

Mycoses--therapy.

Physical Description:

xv, 428 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (partly color) ; 26 cm + 1 CD-ROM (color ; 4 3/4 in.)

Place of Publication:

Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, [2008]

System Details:

System requirements for accompanying CD-ROM:CD-ROM drive and web browser.

Summary:

Accompanying CD-ROM contains ... "e-book" and "color versions of [black and white] illustrations in the book."--CD-ROM label and P. xv.

Contents:

Part I. Approach to patients. Approach to patients with suspected fungal infections / Clinton K. Murray and Duane R. Hospenthal

Part II. Laboratory and radiological diagnosis. Basic mycology / Deanna A. Sutton

Diagnostic histopathology / Michael B. Smith and Michael R. McGinnis

Diagnostic immunology / Samit S. Desai and Brian Wong

Diagnostic radiology / Maria Angela C. Hospenthal and Constanza J. Gutierrez

Part III. Antifungal agents. Antifungal agents / Russel E. Lewis and Annette W. Fothergill

Part IV. Mycoses. Cadidiasis / Jack D. Sobel

Infection due to non-candidal yeasts / Jose A. Vazquez

Aspergillosis / Helen W. Boucher and Thomas F. Patterson

Hyalophomycosis

infection due to hyaline moulds / Rhonda V. Fleming and Elias J. Anaissie

Phaeohyphomycosis

infection due to dark (dematiaceous) moulds / Sanjay G. Revankar

Zygomycosis (mucormycosis) / Charalampos Antachopoulos, Juan C. Gea-Banacloche, and Thomas J. Walsh

Pneumocystosis / Francis Gigliotti and Terry W. Wright

Cryptococcosis / Mathee Chayakulkeeree and John R. Perfect

Blastomycosis / Stanley W. Chapman and Donna C. Sullivan

Coccidioidomycosis / Royce H. Johnson and Shehla Baqi

Histoplasmosis / L. Joseph Wheat and Nicholas G. Conger

Paracoccidioidomycosis / Angela Restrepo, Angela M. Tobón, and Carlos A. Agudelo

Sporotrichosis / Carol A. Kauffman

Dermatophytosis (tinea) and other superficial fungal infections / Aditya K. Gupta and Elizabeth A. Cooper

Subcutaneous fungal infections (chromoblastomycosis, mycetoma, and lobomycosis) / Michael B. Smith and Michael R. McGinnis

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1588298221

9781588298225

OCLC:

209341554