Clinical infectious disease / edited by David Schlossberg, MD, FACP, Professor of Medicine, Temple University School of Medicine, Adjunct Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and Director, Tuberculosis Control Program, Philadelphia Department of Public Health, Philadelphia, PA
1 online resource (xxxvii, 1470 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
SUMMARY
A fully updated version of this popular, clinically oriented, user-friendly text on infectious disease, with even more helpful graphics, tables, algorithms and images. It is packed full of information on diagnosis, differential diagnosis and therapy. In addition to the traditional organization of organ-system and pathogen-related information, this text also includes clinically helpful sections on the susceptible host (with individual chapters, for example, on the diabetic, the elderly, the injection drug user and the neonate), infections related to travel, infections related to surgery and trauma, nosocomial infection and bioterrorism. Positioned between the available encyclopedic tomes and the smaller pocket guides, this is a convenient, comprehensive and highly practical reference for all those practising in infectious diseases as well as internal or general medicine
