Description
Book SynopsisProvides a detailed, evidence-based overview of a range of topics necessary for understanding infectious diseases. It is primarily aimed to offer important background on regional disease epidemiology, pathogenesis, social, and ethical aspects of disease control through the use of specific antimicrobial agents and preventive vaccines.
Different aspects of infectious disease are addressed and each chapter begins with an annotation of key terms, and definitions and finishes with a concrete summary, using bullet points. The excellent tables and illustrative figures in each chapter are presented with useful proactive diagnostic essentials including nonculture-based molecular advances for early diagnosis and appropriate management. Thirty different chapters are dealt from subject matters on antibiotic uses, vaccine prevention strategies for all ages, and disease transmission control in hospital care environments.
- The second edition provides wealth of timely information and up-to-date overview of the commonly encountering infectious diseases in the clinical practice.
- Includes material on the most important newly emerging and re-emerging diseases.
- Each chapter is amply illustrated with photographs and figures provide unparalleled visual guidance.
- Contains reference tables with differential diagnoses, laboratory diagnoses and treatment aspects.
- Valuable appendices provide cross reference information for each of the bacterial, viral, fungal, and parasitic diseases.
Table of Contents1. Infectious Disease subspecialty Role in Indian Health Care settings
2. Antibiotic strategies in the Era of Multidrug Resistance
3. Febrile Illnesses and Pictorial Skin Rashes
4. Lingering Fever beyond Malaria in Indian Healthcare settings
5. Mosquito-borne Malarial and Viral Diseases
6. Tick-borne Diseases (Bacterial and viral causes)
7. Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers (VHFs)
8. Central Nervous System (CNS) Infections
9. Encephalitis (Infectious and Immune Mediated)
10. Skin and Soft Tissue Infections (SSTI) in Adults/Children
11. Pricks, Bites and Scratches [Precaution and Preventions]
12. Infectious Disese of the Head and Neck
13. Pulmonary Infections – Adults and Childhood
14. Tuberculosis and NTM infections including M. Leprae (Adults and Childhood)
15. Infective Endocarditis and Pacemaker Infections
16. Infectious Diarrhea
17. Urinary Tract Infections (UTI’s) in childhood and adults
18. Bone & Joint Infections
19. Clinical Virology -Overview
20. Systemic Fungal Diseases and antifungal Drugs
21. Parasitic Diseases and Drugs
22. Febrile neutropenia (Adults and Pediatrics Perspective)
23. Infections in Transplant Recipients
24. Obstetrical Infections [Pregnant Women, Fetus and Newborn
25. ID’s in Dentistry and Dental health care settings
26. Recurrent Infections due to Immune Deficiencies
27. Microbiome
28. Hospital Acquired Infections (HAIs) & Health care Associated Infections (HcAIs)
29. Therapeutic Antibodies for Infectious Diseases
30. Vaccinology
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