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Manual of clinical problems in infectious disease / Nelson M. Gantz [and three others].
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Lippincott Manual Series (Formerly Known As the Spiral Manual Series)
- Spiral manual
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Communicable diseases--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Communicable diseases.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (592 p.)
- Edition:
- Fifth edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadephia : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, [2006]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The thoroughly updated fifth edition of this popular Spiral registered] Manual is a practical, reliable quick-reference guide to diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases. Organized for rapid information retrieval, the book provides concise, organ-based summaries of each disease. New chapters cover: new pathogens causing pneumonia - SARS, human papillomavirus diagnosis and management, treatment of VZV and post-herpetic neuralgia, parvovirus infections, West Nile virus, agents of bioterrorism, choosing a quinolone, treatment and prevention of influenza, and the role of HIV resistance testing.
- Contents:
- Tonsillopharyngitis in adults
- Sinusitis
- Infectious mononucleosis: many faces of a common disease
- Acute bronchitis
- Antibiotic-resistant pneumococci
- Fever and pleural effusions
- Community-acquired pneumonia in the elderly
- New pathogens causing pneumonia: SARS
- Infective endocarditis: diagnostic criteria
- Culture negative endocarditis
- Surgery in active infective endocarditis
- Endocarditis prophylaxis
- Filling defects of the liver
- Community-acquired peritonitis
- Infections of the hepatobiliary tract
- Management of infectious diarrhea
- Hepatitis C: diagnosis and management
- Urinary tract infections: basic principles of therapy
- Asymptomatic bacteriuria
- The significance of pyuria
- Prostatitis
- Complicated urinary tract infections
- Candiduria
- Urethral discharge
- Serologic tests for syphilis
- Pelvic inflammatory disease
- Therapy of genital herpes
- Vaginitis
- Human papillomavirus
- Analysis of cerebrospinal fluid
- Central nervous system infection in immune suppressed hosts
- Acute peripheral facial palsy
- Acute infections of the central nervous system in immunocompetent persons
- Chronic meningitis
- Guillain-Barre syndrome
- Treatment of Varicella-Zoster virus and postherpetic neuralgia
- Vertebral osteomyelitis
- Infections of prosthetic joints
- Fever and joint pain
- Lyme disease: a diagnostic challenge
- Cellulitis and other skin and soft-tissue infections
- Parvovirus infections
- Gram-negative bacteremium and sepsis cascade
- Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus
- Coagulase-negative staphylococci
- Vancomycin-resistant enterococci
- The febrile patient without an obvious source of infection
- Fever and prosthetic heart valves
- Prolonged fever and generalized lymphadenopathy
- Fever and skin rash
- Fever and the renal transplant recipient
- Fever following travel abroad
- Hyperpyrexia and hyperthermia
- Fever in the granulocytopenic patient
- Fever of unknown origin
- Recurrent furunculosis
- Postoperative fever
- Urinary catheter-related infections
- Healthcare-associated pneumonia
- Management of the employee with a needlestick injury
- Human infections after animal bites
- West Nile virus
- Bioterrorism
- Prophylaxis of infectious diseases in travelers
- Role of the tuberculin skin test
- Isoniazid treatment of latent tuberculosis infection : indications and management
- Treatment of tuberculosis
- Laboratory report of a gram-negative rod in the blood
- Blood culture growing a gram-positive rod
- Stool for ova and parasites
- Principles of antimicrobial therapy
- Choosing a fluoroquinolone
- Antimicrobial-associated colitis
- Perioperative antimicrobial prophylaxis
- Antifungal chemotherapy
- Antibiotic failure
- Treatment and prevention of influenza
- Transmission and prevention of HIV infection
- Primary HIV infection
- Treatment of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in AIDS
- HIV-1 and infections of the central nervous system
- Fever in the HIV-infected patient
- Prevention of opportunistic infection in the HIV-infected patient
- Antiretroviral therapy
- Drug interactions in patients with human immunodeficiency syndrome
- Role of HIV resistance testing.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4698-7420-2
- OCLC:
- 923528874
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