Current Clinical Topics in Infectious Diseases, Volume 19

by Editor: Jack S. Remington (Stanford Univ. School of Medicine); Editor: Morton N. Swartz (Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts)

• ISBN13: 9780632044023
• ISBN10: 0632044020
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-09-01
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

The latest volume in the classic series, Current Clinical Topics in Infectious Diseases, addresses 17 of the most important and timely issues in infectious diseases. In concise, practical, and carefully edited chapters--from emerging diseases to common but pernicious illnesses-- Volume 19 offers a survey of the state-of-the-art on these topics. Among other hot topics are Chronic Fatigue Syndrome update, Sepsis in Ob-Gyn Patients, and Cutaneous Infections in HIV. A special chapter entitled Management of the Lab in the Era of Managed Care addresses the current bottom-line issues involved in running a modern medical lab.

Table of Contents

FUO and AIDS

Cytomegalovirus

Diagnosis of Respiratory Viruses in Cancer and Transplant Patients

Sepsis in Obstetric and Gynaecologic Patients

Emerging Nosocomial Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance

Animal Bites

Hospitalizing Influenza in Adults

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Current Concepts of Pathogenesis and Treatment

Current Considerations in the Management of Fever and Neutropenia

Pneumonia, Tuberculosis and Urinary Tract infections in Pregnancy

Rhodococcus Equi Infections; Clinical Features and Laboratory Diagnosis

Managed Health Care: Outcomes and Update

Prions and Prion Diseases of the Central Nervous System

Human Immunodeficiency Virus Disease in the Era of H.A.A.R.T: A Reevaluation of the Mucocutaneous Manifestations

Xanthogranulomatous Pyelonephritis

Xanthogranulomatous Pyelonephritis

Chronic Fungal Infection of the Feet and Nails

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