Infectious Diseases category: 1139 books
by Ross H. Albert
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2008
This book provides an easy to use, practical, yet comprehensive resource for family practitioners to use in the daily struggle against infectious diseases. It discusses vaccines and preventive measures as well as information on how to reduce the incidence of antimicrobial-resistant organisms by judiciously...
by Luis Ostrosky-Zeichner, MD, Jack Sobel
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2016
There have been major advances in new therapies, diagnostic tools, and strategies for treatment and prevention of fungal infections. Despite these encouraging developments, large numbers of patients are at risk for infectious diseases, and the epidemiology of invasive mycoses continues to emerge....
by Preeti N. Malani, MD, MSJ
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
Optimal management of device associated infections requires a collaborative approach among surgical and medical specialists—a need that is central to this issue of Infectious Diseases Clinics of North America. In addition to the epidemiology, management, and prevention of commonly encountered...
Suffering the Silence
Chronic Lyme Disease in an Age of Denial
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Allie Cashel has suffered from chronic Lyme disease for sixteen years—but much of the medical community refuses to recognize her symptoms as the result of infectious disease. In Suffering the Silence: Chronic Lyme Disease in an Age of Denial, Cashel paints a living portrait of what is often called...
The Global Challenge of Malaria
Past Lessons and Future Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
Malaria is one of the most important “emerging” or “resurgent” infectious diseases. According to the World Health Organization, this mosquito-borne infection is a leading cause of suffering, death, poverty, and underdevelopment in the world today. Every year 500 million people become severely...
Antimicrobial Drug Resistance
Mechanisms of Drug Resistance, Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
The two volumes included in Antimicrobial Drug Resistance, Second Edition is an updated, comprehensive and multidisciplinary reference covering the area of antimicrobial drug resistance in bacteria, fungi, viruses, and parasites from basic science, clinical, and epidemiological perspectives. This...
Manson's Tropical Diseases
Expert Consult - Online
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2013
From the difficult to diagnose to the difficult to treat, Manson’s Tropical Diseases prepares you to effectively handle whatever your patients may have contracted. Featuring an internationally recognized editorial team, global contributors, and expert authors, this revised and updated medical reference...
Updates on Clostridium difficile in Europe
Advances in Microbiology, Infectious Diseases and Public Health Volume 8
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
This book outlines the currently available clinical, epidemiological and experimental data on Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) with special emphasis on studies and results achieved in Europe.
The incidence and severity of CDI has increased significantly over the last decade, and the...
Infection Control
Dilemmas and Practical Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
When we were setting the theme of "infection control dilemmas and practical solutions" for this symposium, we asked ourselves a basic question: What are some of the most vexing problems and situations facing the hospital microbiologist epidemiologist team in today's world of opportunistic...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
As chairman of the European Association of Nuclear Medi cine (EANM) 2001 annual meeting, I tried to reach two goals: a "universal nuclear medicine" congress where all people could speak and learn using the same language, and a full exploration of the possibility of making a diagnosis through...
Medico-Legal Issues in Infectious Diseases
Guide For Physicians
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
The aim of this book is not to encourage defensive medical practice, but to help provide better, optimum care to patients and to be forth right and honest to our dear customers about our inevitable mistakes.
This book will focus on clinical issues facing physicians in different settings (which...
Antimicrobial Drug Resistance
Clinical and Epidemiological Aspects, Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
The two volumes included in Antimicrobial Drug Resistance, Second Edition is an updated, comprehensive and multidisciplinary reference covering the area of antimicrobial drug resistance in bacteria, fungi, viruses, and parasites from basic science, clinical, and epidemiological perspectives. This...
Kucers' The Use of Antibiotics
A Clinical Review of Antibacterial, Antifungal, Antiparasitic, and Antiviral Drugs, Seventh Edition - Three Volume Set
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Kucers’ The Use of Antibiotics is the definitive, internationally-authored reference, providing everything that the infectious diseases specialist and prescriber needs to know about antimicrobials in this vast and rapidly developing field. The much-expanded Seventh Edition comprises 4800 pages...
by Bob Kelley
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
For over 60 years, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has worked tirelessly to address infectious diseases and other health hazards. Through the vision of Dr. Joseph W. Mountin, the Communicable Disease Center was created in 1946 as the successor to Malaria Control in War Areas (MCWA),...