BookJoseph Domachowske, editor.
Summary: This book is the only academic text designed specifically to meet the challenges faced by medical students and early career physicians struggling with nuances of recognizing, diagnosis and treating common infections, infections that masquerade as other diseases, and rare infections that present in a classic manner. Details on basic and advanced microbial diagnostics are explained masterfully. The textbook incorporates problem-based approaches to dozens of clinical infectious disease scenarios in newborns, children, and adults. It includes easy-to-access “tips and tricks” for when to look further or consider possibilities that are unusual making it an incredibly useful resource for providers and trainees with all levels of experience in the field of infectious diseases. Every chapter features a variety of learning tools to help the reader to consider common and uncommon infectious etiologies associated with each problem, to appreciated important underlying host risk factors, to identify important microbiologic clues to a diagnosis, and to remember important aspects of clinical history taking related to the identified problem. At the end of each chapter, review questions are presented as a tool to reinforce the key concepts conveyed. Introduction to Clinical Infectious Diseases, is written by experienced health care providers across 20 specialties in adult and pediatric medicine working in both hospital and outpatient settings. This cutting-edge academic resource will appeal to anyone with 'infectious disease curiosity' including medical students, residents, fellows, and practicing physicians across multiple primary care and specialty areas.
Contents:
Bacterial Infections of the Skin and Skin Structures
Febrile Exanthems of Childhood
Acute and Chronic Lymphadenitis
Otitis, Sinusitis, and Mastoiditis
Pharyngitis and Pharyngeal Space Infections
Pertussis and Pertussis Syndrome
Laryngitis, Tracheitis, Epiglottitis and Bronchiolitis
Atypical Pneumonia
Fungal Pneumonia
Infective Endocarditis
Infectious Myocarditis
Acute Rheumatic Fever
Infectious Hepatitis
Liver Abscess
Infectious Gastroenteritis
Urinary Tract Infections
Human Papillomavirus Infection
Prostatitis, Epididymitis, and Orchitis: Acute Scrotal Pain
Vaginitis, Mucopurulent Cervicitis, and Pelvic Inflammatory Disease: Vaginal Discharge
Congenital and Perinatal Infections
Myelitis and Acute Flaccid Paralysis
Aseptic Meningitis
Bacterial Meningitis
Parameningeal Infections
Meningoencephalitis
Tetanus, Diphtheria and Botulism
Toxic Shock Syndrome
Bacteremia and Bacterial Sepsis
Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infections (CLABSI)
Osteomyelitis and Septic Arthritis
Candidiasis
Lyme Disease
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and Other Rickettsioses
Malaria
Yellow Fever and Dengue
Chagas Disease: South American
Trypanosomiasis
Leptospirosis
Leprosy
Neurocysticercosis
Human Immune Deficiency Virus I: History, Epidemiology, Transmission and Pathogenesis
Human Immune Deficiency Virus II: Clinical Presentation, Opportunistic Infections, Treatment and Prevention
Essentials of Diagnostic Microbiology.