Emerging Infectious Diseases: Trends and Issues

Emerging Infectious Diseases: Trends and Issues, Second Edition
by Felissa R. Lashley (Editor), Jerry D. Durham (Editor)

Product Details
* Hardcover: 616 pages
* Publisher: Springer Publishing Company; 2 edition (May 14, 2007)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0826102506

Book Description
"This new work updates the highly regarded first edition...and is equally excellent. It offers a wealth of timely information about a variety of emerging and reemerging infections...This is an excellent reference for anyone interested in emerging infections, and will be a valuable resource for health science students, especially those in nursing and public health....Highly recommended. Upper-level undergraduates through professionals/practitioners."--Choice
Emerging, re-emerging, and antibiotic-resistant infectious diseases continue to increase at an alarming rate throughout the world. Written for a wide range of health professionals, particularly nurses, this revised edition provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of these diseases: their epidemiology, clinical manifestations, prevention, and treatment.
With contributions by a multidisciplinary team of nurses, physicians, and infectious disease specialists, the book includes material on the most recent and important new emerging infectious diseases:
* Avian influenza and SARS
* Issues of demographics and microbial resistance
* Special topics, including bioterrorism
* Behavioral and cultural factors
* Infectious etiologies of chronic diseases
* Travel and recreational exposure
Each chapter is amply illustrated with clinical case examples to demonstrate the pitfalls in differential diagnosis and elucidate proper management and treatment. Valuable appendices provide critical reference information for each of the bacterial, viral, fungal, and parasitic diseases.

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Pediatric Anaerobic Infections: Diagnosis and Management

Pediatric Anaerobic Infections: Diagnosis and Management (Infectious Disease and Therapy)
by Itzhak Brook (Author)

Product Details
* Hardcover: 611 pages
* Publisher: Informa Healthcare; 3 edition (November 15, 2001)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0824706153

Book Description
This totally revised and updated reference covers the latest advances in the diagnosis and treatment of anaerobic bacterial infections in children-describing the activity of, and current therapies for, infections after trauma; in splenic and liver abscesses; in the head, neck, and abdomen; and in other systems of the body. Explores the most up-to-date research on anaerobic infections at specific organ sites-such as infections of the central nervous system, the respiratory tract, the chest, the urinary tract, bones and joints, the female genital tract, and skin and soft tissues! The Third Edition of Pediatric Anaerobic Infections contains new and expanded discussions on · the identification and management of diseases, including pneumonia, sinusitis, tonsillitis, necrotizing fasciitis, botulism, tetanus, and infant botulism · mixed aerobic-anaerobic infections · resistance to available antimicrobials · emerging antimicrobial agents effective against anaerobic bacteria · contraindications for surgery and therapy of complications · state-of-the-art diagnostic tools · and more! With nearly 3000 contemporary references, the Third Edition of Pediatric Anaerobic Infections is an authoritative source suitable for infectious disease specialists, pediatricians, primary care specialists, microbiologists, virologists, immunologists, pharmacologists, medicinal chemists and biochemists, and fellows, residents, and medical students in these disciplines.

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