Antimicrobial Resistance: Beyond the Breakpoint, 1st ed. 2010

Antimicrobial Resistance: Beyond the Breakpoint

J. Todd Weber

ISBN-10: 3805593236

ISBN-13: 978-3805593236

S. Karger AG

Preventing, controlling and treating drug-resistant infections is one of the major challenges in modern medicine. "Antimicrobial Resistance" goes beyond simple definitions and microbiological data to fully explore this rapidly changing area, describing evidence for effective interventions, costs, treatment strategies and directions for future research. Each chapter provides essential background and examines the evidence for an important aspect of prevention and control, treatment strategy or policy decision. Prevention and control strategies are analyzed for inappropriate antimicrobial use, fluoroquinolone-resistant organisms, health-care associated infections and parasitic diseases. Furthermore, treatment strategies for changing resistance patterns are explored for community-acquired pneumonia during an influenza pandemic and infections with community-associated MRSA, extended-spectrum beta-lactamase producing organisms and fungi. Data for policy making are presented in articles that detail the costs of antimicrobial-resistant infections in healthcare settings and the threat of resistance with the introduction of antiretroviral therapy for large populations in the developing world. These reviews show where interventions, surveillance and research will be most useful in the future. "Antimicrobial Resistance" is an invaluable contribution for infectious disease physicians and public health officials who are interested in the prevention of antimicrobial-resistant infections.

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Plagues and Epidemics: Infected Spaces Past and Present, 2010

Plagues and Epidemics: Infected Spaces Past and Present

(Wenner Gren International Symposium Series)

Ann Herring and Alan C. Swedlund

ISBN-10: 1847885470

ISBN-13: 978-1847885470

Berg Publishers

Until recently, plagues were thought to belong in the ancient past. Now there are deep worries about global pandemics. This book presents views from anthropology about this much publicized and complex problem. The authors take us to places where epidemics are erupting, waning, or gone and to other places where they have not yet arrived, but where a frightening story-line is already in place. They explore public health bureaucracies and political arenas where the power lies to make decisions about what is, and is not, an epidemic. They look back into global history to uncover disease trends and look ahead to a future of expanding plagues within the context of climate change. The chapters are written from a range of perspectives, from the science of modelling epidemics to the social science of understanding them.

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Infectious Diseases of the Female Genital Tract, 4th ed. 2002

Infectious Diseases of the Female Genital Tract, 4th ed. 2002

Richard L. Sweet and Ronald S Gibbs

ISBN-10: 0781755832

ISBN-13: 978-0781755832

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Thoroughly updated and now featuring more than 100 full-color illustrations, the Fifth Edition of this comprehensive reference provides current, complete diagnostic and therapeutic information on infectious diseases of the female genital tract. This edition includes new chapters on human papillomavirus and the new vaccines and on infection as a cause of neonatal brain damage. The book emphasizes an evidence-based approach to recommendations and presents current guidelines for treatment of sexually transmitted diseases. The presentation of material has been streamlined to produce a smaller, more user-friendly text, and the format has been modified to include additional algorithms and tables. A companion Website will offer the fully searchable text and an image bank.

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Urinary Tract Infections, 1997

Urinary Tract Infections, 1997

(Infectiology, Vol. 1) (v. 1)

Tom Bergan

ISBN-10: 3805564406

ISBN-13: 978-3805564403

S. Karger AG

Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are among the most common bacterial infections in humans. Their frequency varies with age, gender and socioeconomic background. Authored by scientists especially selected for their expertise in the field, this book reviews the latest research data and presents current concepts of the pathogenesis, prevention and treatment of UTIs. Modern methods of diagnosis and new antibacterial agents are evaluated, and recommendations for the choice of antimicrobial and the duration of treatment in different conditions are provided. Besides acute cystitis and pyelonephritis, special attention is given to complicated UTIs, such as infections in renal transplant patients, patients infected with HIV or patients on anticancer drugs and glucocorticosteroid therapy. Finally, areas are identified in which well designed clinical studies and more basic research could lead to cost-effective improvements in the management of UTIs. This book represents the latest international consensus on treatment and aetiology of UTIs. As such, it should assist clinicians and health care professionals in curing the patients, and should also be appreciated by basic and clinical researchers in urology, nephrology, microbiology and diabetes.

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Tuberculosis (Health alert) 2010

Tuberculosis (Health Alert)

Henry Wouk

ISBN-10: 076143979X

ISBN-13: 978-0761439790

Benchmark Books

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Hematology, Immunology and Infectious Disease: Neonatology Questions and Controversies, 2008

 

 

Hematology, Immunology and Infectious Disease: Neonatology Questions and Controversies

(Neonatology: Questions & Controversies)

Robin Ohls MD and Mervin C. Yoder

ISBN-10: 1416031588

ISBN-13: 978-1416031581

Saunders

 

 

 

 

This exciting new reference brings you information about the most controversial hematology, immunology, and infectious disease challenges you face in your practice. The book confidently tackles these subjects and gives seasoned advice on the latest diagnostic and treatment strategies using evidence-based medicine wherever possible. It gives you the latest information you need to keep pace with the fast-paced, dynamic environment of neonatology.

 

 

• Addresses controversial topics head on, so you can decide how to handle these difficult practice issues.
• Serves as the bridge between the latest cutting-edge research and its application to clinical practice.
• Assembles a world-class group of neonatologists, representing the true leaders of the specialty, to ensure the most authoritative content available.

 

 

 

 

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Diagnostic Pathology of Infectious Disease, 1st ed. 2010

Diagnostic Pathology of Infectious Disease, 1st ed. 2010

Richard L. Kradin

ISBN-10: 1416034293

ISBN-13: 978-1416034292

Saunders

Diagnostic Pathology of Infectious Disease presents a comprehensive, organ-based approach to the effective and accurate diagnosis of infectious diseases. Dr. Richard L. Kradin covers the latest information on H1N1, as well as the use of immunohistochemical stains, PCR, Immunoperoxidase, and other molecular techniques for a current representation of the field. High-quality, full-color illustrations and differential diagnosis tables accompany each lesion so you can quickly identify and diagnose whatever you see. Online and print, this reference is an invaluable tool for the accurate diagnosis of any infectious disease-from the common to the most challenging.

• Includes the fully searchable contents of the book online at expertconsult.com, along with a full image bank and access to PathConsult.
• Covers the latest techniques in immunohistochemistry and molecular genetics integrated throughout the text for comprehensive information on all investigative contexts relevant to ensuring diagnostic accuracy.
• Emphasizes the host responses critical in differential diagnosis to serve as a second opinion when non-infectious diagnoses mimic and confound the diagnosis of infection.
• Provides a complete visual guide to suspect lesions through superb, high-quality, full-color illustrations of key aspects of various diseases that facilitate the rapid identification of biopsy specimen.
• Presents contents organized by organ as opposed to pathogen to more effectively address diagnostic and management issues.
• Features tables that list differential diagnosis for each lesion for quick summaries of key points in problem areas.
• Highlights morphological characteristics and landmarks of tissue samples throughout the text for easy access to information necessary for signing out specimen.
• Focuses on clinicopathologic features and correlations so you can deal with the diagnostic problems you face every day.

The most accurate resource to diagnose the pathology of infection

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Mucosal Immunology and Virology, 1st ed. 2006

Mucosal Immunology and Virology

Stephen K. Tyring

ISBN-10: 1846282012

ISBN-13: 978-1846282010

Springer

An understanding of virus infection and the underlying role of the immune system in protection against these diseases is vital in today’s medical climate. Previously, only symptoms could be treated, as there were no antiviral therapies. The increasing amounts of research and the huge number of discoveries of immunologic agents and pathways has led to the opportunity to look to the basic physiology of the various disease process as never before. This book is designed to provide the clinician with a thorough and yet approachable textbook describing the relationships between immunology, virology and the disease process.

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Bacterial Infections of Humans: Epidemiology and Control, 4th ed. 2009

Bacterial Infections of Humans: Epidemiology and Control, 4th ed. 2009

Philip S. Brachman, Elias Abrutyn

ISBN-10: 0387098429

ISBN-13: 978-0387098425

Springer

The new Fourth Edition of Bacterial Infections of Humans reflects a decade of important discoveries, technological progress, and valuable new therapies as well as emerging and reemerging infections, resistant strains of bacteria, and threats of bioterrorism. It offers accessible, up-to-date information across the range of disease entities. As in previous editions, introductory chapters review general concepts of infection and epidemiology, and the chapters devoted to specific infections follow a consistent and highly useful format: historical background, methodology (diagnosis and pathology), biology, descriptive epidemiology, mechanism and routes of transmission, pathogenesis, host responses, methods of prevention and control, and areas for future research. All material has been thoroughly updated, and two chapters on molecular epidemiology and health care-acquired bacterial infections, are entirely new.

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Tropical Infectious Diseases: Principles, Pathogens & Practice, 2nd ed. 2006

Tropical Infectious Diseases: Principles, Pathogens &; Practice

Richard L. Guerrant, David H. Walker, Peter F. Weller

ISBN-10: 044306668X

ISBN-13: 978-0443066689

Churchill Livingstone

Tropical Infectious Diseases, now thankfully published in two volumes totalling nearly 1800 pages, is a superb collection of well-written, well-organised, and authoritative chapters that are as up to date as possible. Almost every chapter is outstanding and some are classics in their own right. There are new and refreshing contributions on social and cultural fators in tropical medicine; on migrant, immigrant, and refugee health; and on tropical infectious diseases in pregnancy. Many of the revised chapters are excellent, particularly those on malaria, respiratory infections, cholera, heaptitis and neurologic disease and those collected in the last of the volumes' three sections, "Practice: Approach to the Patient in the Tropics." This section and the other two - "Principles and General Considerations" and "Pathogens" - are clear and easy to navigate, and the accompanying CD-ROM is invaluable when one is travelling. For a textbook of this size, with more than 200 contributors, there is remarkably little overlap between chapters. The authors represent a who's who of experts on modern tropical infectious diseases, and the editors must have used extraordinary powers of persuasion to get this eclectic group to keep a uniform format and meet deadlines.

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Tropical diseases in Travelers, 1st ed. 2009

Tropical diseases in Travelers, 1st ed. 2009

Eli Schwartz

ISBN-10: 1405184418

ISBN-13: 978-1405184410

Wiley-Blackwell

Covering all the major tropical diseases that present a health risk to travelers, this book is an invaluable resource for all practitioners who encounter the post travel patient. With emphasis on clinical signs, diagnosis and treatment, it is the first book to summarize the knowledge of post travel presentations in the otherwise non-immune and non-endemic population and will aid clinicians to evaluate travelers’ symptoms.

The book is divided into three parts. The first is an overview of key aspects of travel medicine; the second contains a detailed discussion of multiple viral, bacterial and parasitic infections. The third part provides a syndromic approach to patients with common travel complaints such as diarrhea, fever and respiratory infections. It also includes useful appendices with lists of anti-parasitic drugs and available diagnostic tests.

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ABC of Sepsis, 1st ed. 2010

ABC of Sepsis, 1st ed. 2010
 Ron Daniels, Tim Nutbeam

ISBN-10: 140518194X

ISBN-13: 978-1405181945

BMJ Books

The importance of early prevention and treatment of sepsis has never been greater. In the UK alone sepsis contributes to more deaths than lung cancer, from bowel cancer and breast cancer combined, and approximately one third of patients who suffer from severe sepsis die. The ABC of Sepsis provides a much needed introduction and an invaluable aid in the increasing efforts to reduce hospital infection and improve patient safety. As growing numbers of junior medical staff experience emergency medicine, critical care and acute medicine as part of the Foundation Programme, there is an increasing need to develop the skills required to treat severe sepsis. The editors are involved with the Survive Sepsis campaign - developed to improve the recognition, diagnosis and treatment of sepsis - and are perfectly placed to guide junior medics, GPs, specialist nurses, critical care nurses and primary care staff through this core aspect of acute medicine.

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Krugman's Infectious Diseases of Children, 11th ed. 2003

Krugman's Infectious Diseases of Children, 11th ed.

Anne Gershon, Peter Hotez, and Samuel Katz

ISBN-10: 0323017568

ISBN-13: 978-0323017565

Mosby

Provides comprehensive coverage of child infections, including management and treatment strategies. Covers classic clinical infections as well as new, emerging international infections.

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Common Cold, 1st. 2009

Common Cold

(Birkhäuser Advances in Infectious Diseases)

Ronald Eccles and Olaf Weber

ISBN-10: 3764398949

ISBN-13: 978-3764398941

Birkhäuser Basel

The common cold is unlike any other human disease. It seems impossible to defeat and affects all of us on a regular basis. Due to the large number of viruses causing colds any specific cure is a major challenge. This unique book brings together a wide range of topics, from our ancestors’ views about disease, followed by the questions why and how we sneeze, cough and get a runny nose, to the intricacies of host-virus interactions and immunological phenomena on the molecular level. Popular treatments, "over the counter" medicines and interventions are reviewed. Finally recent developments and new treatment options are highlighted.

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Manual of Clinical Problems in Infectious Diseases, 5th ed. 2006

Manual of Clinical Problems in Infectious Disease

(Spiral Manual Series)

Nelson M Gantz, Richard B Brown, Steven L Berk, James W Myers

ISBN-10: 0781759293

ISBN-13: 978-0781759298

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

The thoroughly updated Fifth Edition of this popular Spiral(R) 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.

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Dengue (Tropical Medicine: Science and Practice) 2008

Dengue

(Tropical Medicine Science and Practice)

Scott B. Halstead

ISBN-10: 1848162286

ISBN-13: 978-1848162280

Imperial College Press

This unique volume presents an up-to-date review of one of the world s major health problems -- diseases caused by the four dengue viruses. It begins with an insightful story of the origin of dengue disease outbreaks, including the emergence of severe and fatal dengue hemorrhagic fever. The nature, structure and biology of the four dengue viruses are described, and a major portion of the book is focused on the epidemiology of dengue as a mosquito-borne disease. This is complemented by critiques of existing mosquito control programs by three groups of outstanding authorities. The strongest element of the volume is its comprehensive description of the current understanding of dengue disease pathogenesis, followed by an analysis of the pros and cons of five of the most controversial areas in the field: the WHO DEF case definition, secondary dengue infections, virulent viruses, the role of abnormal T cells and autoimmunity.

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Tuberculosis: the essentials, 4th ed. 2010

Tuberculosis, Fourth Edition: The Essentials

(Lung Biology in Health and Disease)

Mario C. Raviglione

ISBN-10: 1420090216

ISBN-13: 978-1420090215

Informa Healthcare

Every second a new person is exposed to tuberculosis (TB). Each untreated TB-infected person will infect 10-15 people every year. Following the success of its predecessor, this new edition of Tuberculosis scrutinizes the new discoveries and observations of the key aspects of the disease while delivering the information in a very manageable 416-page format.

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Malaria: Perspectives on Diseases and Disorders, 1st ed, 2010

Malaria: Perspectives on Diseases and Disorders, 1st ed, 2010

Nancy Dziedzic

ISBN-10: 0737743794

ISBN-13: 978-0737743791

Greenhaven Press

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Diseases & Disorders: MRSA, 2010

Diseases & Disorders- MRSA, 2010

Barbara Sheen

ISBN-10: 1420501445

ISBN-13: 978-1420501445

Lucent Books

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Infectious Diseases, 2-Volume Set, 2nd ed. 2003

Infectious Diseases, 2-Volume Set

Jonathan Cohen, William G. Powderly

ISBN-10: 0323024076

ISBN-13: 978-0323024075

Mosby

A clinical focus, reader-friendly format, and international scope make this landmark, two-volume reference unique among encyclopedic infectious disease resources. More than 300 worldwide experts cover all aspects of the investigation, diagnosis, and clinical management of every infectious condition. Abundant "Practice Points" convey valuable clinical pearls from the authors. The comprehensively updated 2nd Edition features an even more geographically diverse set of contributors than its predecessor, as well as brand-new information on nosocomial infections, HIV/AIDS, and many other timely topics.

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