Current Clinical Topics in Infectious Diseases

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

• ISBN13: 9780632046256
• ISBN10: 0632046252
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-09-01
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

The twenty-second edition of this acclaimed annual reference addresses fourteen of the most important and timely issues in infectious disease. The carefully edited chapters are concise, practical, and focus on a unique disease or issue.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Contributors	xi
Other Volumes in the Series	xv
Cytokines in Septic Shock	1	(23)
Thierry Calandra
Pierre-Yves Bochud
Didier Heumann
Chlamydia pneumoniae and the Heart: Impact of Diagnostic Methods	24	(18)
Margaret R. Hammerschlag
Impetigo: Etiology and Therapy	42	(10)
Jan V. Hirschmann
West Nile Virus in the US and Abroad	52	(9)
Richard T. Johnson
Blastomycosis: Gilchrist's Disease Revisited	61	(17)
Peter G. Pappas
William Dismukes
Life Threatening Infections in the Asplenic or Hyposplenic Individual	78	(19)
Larry I. Lutwick
Update on Q Fever, Including Q Fever Endocarditis	97	(28)
Thomas J. Marrie
Didier Raoult
The Direct and Indirect Effects of Infection in Liver Transplantation: Pathogenesis, Impact, and Clinical Management	125	(30)
Robert H. Rubin
The Potential Roles of C-Reactive Protein and Procalcitonin Concentrations in the Serum and Cerebrospinal fluid in the Diagnosis of Bacterial Meningitis	155	(11)
Barnett R. Nathan
W. Michael Scheld
Testing for Genital Herpes: How, Who, and Why	166	(15)
Anna Wald
A Review of Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy in Persons With and Without AIDS	181	(15)
Mark S. Dworkin
Diagnosis and Management of Empyema	196	(18)
Holenarasipur R. Vikram
Vincent J. Quagliarello
Use of Antiretoviral Drugs to Prevent Sexual Transmission of HIV	214	(38)
Myron S. Cohen
Mina Hosseinipour
Angela Kashuba
Salvatore Butera
Pneumococcal Vaccines for Infants and Children-Past, Present, and Future	252	(14)
Jerome O. Klein
Index	266