Consultations in infectious disease : a case based approach to diagnosis and management / Daniel Caplivski, W. Michael Scheld.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Caplivski, Daniel.

Contributor:

Scheld, W. Michael.

Series:

Oxford American infectious disease library.

Oxford American infectious disease library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communicable diseases--Diagnosis--Case studies.

Communicable diseases.

Central nervous system--Infections--Diagnosis--Case studies.

Central nervous system.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (389 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Infectious diseases have plagued man throughout history. In the era of modern medicine antibiotics and vaccines brought the hope of liberation from the great scourges of smallpox, polio, and tuberculosis. Yet, in the ensuing decades as we hoped to close the book on infectious diseases, we have instead been confronted by wave upon wave of new assailants. AIDS, SARS, pandemic influenza, and multi-drug resistant bacteria demonstrated how our technological advances have either fallen short in halting or even enhanced the spread of emerging pathogens. International air travel has collapsed geograph

Contents:

Meningitis

Encephalitis and myelopathy

Focal central nervous system infections

Ophthalmologic infections

Oropharyngeal and sinus infections

Pulmonary infections in immunocompetent hosts

Pulmonary infections in immunocompromised hosts

Cardiac infections

Gastrointestinal infections

Urinary tract infections

Skin and soft tissue infections

Bone and joint infections

Vector-borne infections

Non-infectious syndromes that mimic infections.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-935284-4

1-280-59550-7

9786613625335

0-19-990910-5

OCLC:

780445049