Manual of clinical problems in infectious disease / / Nelson M. Gantz [and three others].

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Place / Publishing House:Philadephia : : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins,, [2006]
2006
Year of Publication:2006
Edition:Fifth edition.
Language:English
Series:Spiral manual
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Physical Description:1 online resource (592 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Tonsillopharyngitis in adults
  • Sinusitis
  • Infectious mononucleosis: many faces of a common disease
  • Acute bronchitis
  • Antibiotic-resistant pneumococci
  • Fever and pleural effusions
  • Community-acquired pneumonia in the elderly
  • New pathogens causing pneumonia: SARS
  • Infective endocarditis: diagnostic criteria
  • Culture negative endocarditis
  • Surgery in active infective endocarditis
  • Endocarditis prophylaxis
  • Filling defects of the liver
  • Community-acquired peritonitis
  • Infections of the hepatobiliary tract
  • Management of infectious diarrhea
  • Hepatitis C: diagnosis and management
  • Urinary tract infections: basic principles of therapy
  • Asymptomatic bacteriuria
  • The significance of pyuria
  • Prostatitis
  • Complicated urinary tract infections
  • Candiduria
  • Urethral discharge
  • Serologic tests for syphilis
  • Pelvic inflammatory disease
  • Therapy of genital herpes
  • Vaginitis
  • Human papillomavirus
  • Analysis of cerebrospinal fluid
  • Central nervous system infection in immune suppressed hosts
  • Acute peripheral facial palsy
  • Acute infections of the central nervous system in immunocompetent persons
  • Chronic meningitis
  • Guillain-Barre syndrome
  • Treatment of Varicella-Zoster virus and postherpetic neuralgia
  • Vertebral osteomyelitis
  • Infections of prosthetic joints
  • Fever and joint pain
  • Lyme disease: a diagnostic challenge
  • Cellulitis and other skin and soft-tissue infections
  • Parvovirus infections
  • Gram-negative bacteremium and sepsis cascade
  • Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus
  • Coagulase-negative staphylococci
  • Vancomycin-resistant enterococci
  • The febrile patient without an obvious source of infection
  • Fever and prosthetic heart valves
  • Prolonged fever and generalized lymphadenopathy
  • Fever and skin rash
  • Fever and the renal transplant recipient
  • Fever following travel abroad
  • Hyperpyrexia and hyperthermia
  • Fever in the granulocytopenic patient
  • Fever of unknown origin
  • Recurrent furunculosis
  • Postoperative fever
  • Urinary catheter-related infections
  • Healthcare-associated pneumonia
  • Management of the employee with a needlestick injury
  • Human infections after animal bites
  • West Nile virus
  • Bioterrorism
  • Prophylaxis of infectious diseases in travelers
  • Role of the tuberculin skin test
  • Isoniazid treatment of latent tuberculosis infection : indications and management
  • Treatment of tuberculosis
  • Laboratory report of a gram-negative rod in the blood
  • Blood culture growing a gram-positive rod
  • Stool for ova and parasites
  • Principles of antimicrobial therapy
  • Choosing a fluoroquinolone
  • Antimicrobial-associated colitis
  • Perioperative antimicrobial prophylaxis
  • Antifungal chemotherapy
  • Antibiotic failure
  • Treatment and prevention of influenza
  • Transmission and prevention of HIV infection
  • Primary HIV infection
  • Treatment of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in AIDS
  • HIV-1 and infections of the central nervous system
  • Fever in the HIV-infected patient
  • Prevention of opportunistic infection in the HIV-infected patient
  • Antiretroviral therapy
  • Drug interactions in patients with human immunodeficiency syndrome
  • Role of HIV resistance testing.