Infectious Disease Clinical Cases Uncovered

by McKenzie, Hamish; Laing, Robert; Mackenzie, Alexander; Molyneaux, Pamela; Bal, Abhijit

• ISBN13: 9781405168915
• ISBN10: 1405168919
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-08-24
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This new title in the Clinical Cases Uncovered (CCU) series is designed to help students make the most of their learning before clinical attachments and when revising.Infectious Disease is a core topic within the clinical curriculum and students are expected to recognize, understand and know how to investigate and manage many infectious conditions. This new text includes reference to the new JCHMT curriculum for acute and internal medicine regarding infection and features self-assessment exercises using MCQs, EMQs and SAQs.

Author Biography

Hamish McKenzie, Professor and Honorary Consultant Medical Microbiologist, Foresterhill Hospital, Aberdeen and Aberdeen

Robert Laing, Consultant Physician in Infectious Disease and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary

Alexander McKenzie, Consultant Physician in Infection Disease and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary

Pamela Molyneaux, Consultant Virologist and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer

Abhjit Bal, SpR in Medical Microbiology and Honorary Clinical Lecturer

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. viii
How to use this book	p. ix
List of abbreviations	p. x
Basics	p. 1
Laboratory diagnosis of infection	p. 1
Antimicrobial chemotherapy	p. 13
Infection and immunity	p. 22
Approach to the patient	p. 28
Cases	p. 34
A 68-year-old woman with bloody diarrhoea	p. 34
A 73-year-old man who has been feeling generally unwell for 2 weeks	p. 38
A 36-year-old man with hospital-acquired pneumonia	p. 42
A 26-year-old male with jaundice	p. 45
A 28-year-old female student with severe headache and drowsiness	p. 49
A 30-year-old female with a vesicular skin rash	p. 57
A 37-year-old man with fever and pleuritic pain	p. 61
A 14-year-old school girl with a rash	p. 66
A 68-year-old woman with fever and muscle pains	p. 70
A 35-year-old teacher with fever and chills on return from Malawi	p. 74
A 32-year-old man with night sweats and fatigue	p. 78
A 41-year-old male with a red, hot and swollen left lower leg	p. 82
An 18-year-old female student with vaginal discharge	p. 86
An outbreak of diarrhoea and vomiting on an orthopaedic ward	p. 89
An antenatal visit	p. 92
Headache in a 35-year-old South African woman	p. 96
A 64-year-old man with fever and rigors	p. 101
A 42-year-man with fever, cough and myalgia	p. 106
A 75-year-old man with a sore hip	p. 109
A 24-year-old man with acute myelogenous leukaemia who has developed a fever	p. 112
A 53-year-old man with fever, severe back pain and abdominal pain	p. 115
A 20-year-old female student with a rash, fever, myalgia and diarrhoea	p. 119
A 54-year-old man with a cough and night sweats	p. 122
A 15-year-old boy with fever and a sore throat	p. 125
Self-assessment	p. 128
MCQs	p. 128
EMQs	p. 133
SAQs	p. 137
Answers	p. 140
Index of cases by diagnosis or organism	p. 145
Index	p. 147
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