Diseases of Infection: An Illustrated Textbook - Hardcover

This book takes a broad approach to the growing range of infections which provide changing and often unfamiliar problems of recognition and management in the present world. Planned primarily for the medical student, the book's approach is practical, combining clinical, laboratory, and epidemiological aspects. A large number of clinical photographs are included, as well as tabular summaries, algorithms, and recent epidemiology data. Infections are grouped systematically, as far as possible by major syndrome. They include not only the traditional infectious diseases but also recently recognized problems such as AIDS and Lyme disease, imported and major tropical diseases, and the growing range of difficult infections resulting from new medical and surgical procedures, immunocompromise, the use of blood and blood products, and transplantation. Medical students in the developed world; recent medical graduates; general practitioners; other doctors wishing to update their knowledge; nurses.