Infectious Diseases category: 1139 books
Use of Quinolones in Travel Medicine
Second Conference on International Travel Medicine Proceedings of the Ciprofloxacin Satellite Symposium “Use of Quinolones in Travel Medicine”
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Proceedings of the Ciproflaxacin Satellite Symposium "Use of Quinolones in Travel Medicine"
Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis in the USA
Final Report of the National CAPD Registry 1981–1988
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The Final Report of the USA CAPO Registry summarizes eight years of observation and analysis that reflects the experiences of 485 clinical centers and over 25,000 CAPO patients. As such, it offers a wealth of information, available here for the first time to interested parties around the world. Because...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
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Infective Endocarditis
Epidemiology, Diagnosis, Imaging, Therapy, and Prevention
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
This reference resource represents the consensus opinion a team of international specialists on the diagnosis and treatment of infective endocarditis (IE), many of whom have been co-authors of American or European guidelines on the topic. It is therefore a useful tool for many practitioners: cardiologists...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Only in recent years has it been revealed that V. cholerae is a normal inhabitant of esturine and riverine waters. This means that even if the disease can be eliminated from human population by vaccines etc. the vibrio will continue to survive independently in the environment. It is likely that the...
Hospital Acquired Infections
Prevention & Control
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
This book is part of the LWW India publishing program. This program is developed for the Indian market working with Indian authors who are the foremost experts in their respective fields. Our Indian authors do research and teach at the most respected Indian medical schools and academic hospitals....
Giardia and Giardiasis
Biology, Pathogenesis, and Epidemiology
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
The intestinal protozoan Giardia was first described over 300 years ago in 1681 by Leeuwenhoek, from his own stools. In his description of Giardia, he noted the size, movement, and morphology of the organism, and associated its presence with the diarrheic nature of his stools and his dietary habits....
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The evolution ofdata about the HIV-Associated Lipodystrophy Syndrome has been rapid. The syndrome itself is complex and controversial. Although great progress has been made in understanding epidemiology and etiology of the syndrome, much about the syndrome remains mysterious. It was our intention...
Mites: Ecology, Evolution & Behaviour
Life at a Microscale
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
More than 40,000 species of mites have been described, and up to 1 million may exist on earth. These tiny arachnids play many ecological roles including acting as vectors of disease, vital players in soil formation, and important agents of biological control. But despite the grand diversity of mites,...
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Disasters in an Era of Diminishing Resources
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Natural and human-made disasters are increasing around the world. Hurricanes, typhoons, earthquakes, tsunamis, droughts, and resultant famine, floods, and armed conflicts are constant reminders of the frailty of our human race. Global warming may cause whole island states to be submerged as the oceans...
Health Measurement Scales
A practical guide to their development and use
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Clinicians and those in health sciences are frequently called upon to measure subjective states such as attitudes, feelings, quality of life, educational achievement and aptitude, and learning style in their patients. This fifth edition of Health Measurement Scales enables these groups to both develop...
by W. Michael Scheld, Richard J. Whitley, Christina M. Marra
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Tap into the gold standard on central nervous system infections: Infections of the Central Nervous System, 4e is now fully revised and updated to accommodate the wealth of new CNS information discovered over the past decade. More than 90 leading experts contribute chapters, providing comprehensive,...
Rheumatic Fever
A Guide to its Recognition, Prevention and Cure with Special Reference to Developing Countries
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
It has become commonplace to say that the decline of rheu matic fever in Europe and North America has little, if any thing, to do with medicine; but to conclude that efforts to control the disease are futile would be an error leading to what could be termed public health malpractice. The need...