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• Paperback: 440 pages
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 2 edition (July 7, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 063206417X
• ISBN-13: 978-0632064175

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Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK. Text is an up-to-date guide to infectious diseases, medical microbiology, and antibiotic prescribing. Includes updated sections on HIV infection and antiviral drugs and antibiotics. Features clear and systematic layout using standard format for rapid access. Previous edition: c1995. Softcover. DNLM: Communicable Diseases–Handbooks.

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Now in its sixth edition, Infectious Diseases in Obstetrics and Gynecology remains the only book to comprehensively cover infectious diseases in both obstetrics and general gynecology.

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• Hardcover: 424 pages
• Publisher: Informa Healthcare; 1 edition (August 29, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0824729331
• ISBN-13: 978-0824729332

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Analyzing a key cause of infectious morbidity in immunosuppressed and immunocompromised patients, this source spans the most recent strategies to improve and expedite the diagnosis, identification, and treatment of fungal infections. With authoritative contributions from experienced clinicians in the field, this reference tracks developments in imaging, susceptibility testing, and strain typing to combat these conditions in transplant, surgical, oncology, and intensive care units.

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• Paperback: 344 pages
• Publisher: BMJ Books; 1 edition (September 17, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1405148586
• ISBN-13: 978-1405148580

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Evidence-based Pediatric Infectious Diseases is a practical guide to the diagnosis and management of childhood infections in clinical practice. Renowned Clinical Professor of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, David Isaacs, and an expert consultant editor team, bring you the first book to critically look at the evidence for decision making in pediatric infections.

Based around illustrative case studies, each chapter presents and analyzes current evidence on the management of different pediatric infections and provides firm treatment recommendations based on evidence of:
• efficacy and safety
• antibiotic resistance
• cost
• adverse effects
• ethical considerations.

Clear summaries and specific guidance allow you to assess the evidence for yourself and make rapid but informed management decisions based on the strength of evidence available. Antibiotic doses are presented clearly and simply, enabling you to select appropriate treatment at a glance.

This book uses a case-based approach that focuses on the most common disease areas affecting children in industrialized countries, developing countries, travelers and refugees. It is an up-to-date, relevant and widely applicable text that carefully examines the evidence for antibiotics and other interventions whilst encouraging a conservative and responsible approach to antibiotic use.

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• Hardcover: 880 pages
• Publisher: Informa Healthcare; 3 edition (May 11, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0824719522
• ISBN-13: 978-0824719524

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Maintaining the features that made the previous editions so successful, the Third Edition of Laboratory Diagnosis of Viral Infections summarizes the clinical, epidemiological, pathogenetic, and immunological features of a certain disease or infection-providing laboratorians with a practical tool for the principles and techniques used in diagnostic virology.
Contains a new chapter covering the important Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome!
Fully updated since the last edition was published eight years ago and alphabetically arranged for quick and easy reference, Laboratory Diagnosis of Viral Infections, Third Edition now contains:

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• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Springer; 3rd edition (June 2, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1852339853
• ISBN-13: 978-1852339852
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 7 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds

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Since the last edition was published, the teaching of Ophthalmology at primary care level has become more rather than less important. The specialty has developed more subspecialties, and the referring doctor has to have a good knowledge of these in order to make appropriate referrals. An increased emphasis on screening has made it necessary for the primary care doctor to have a basic knowledge of eye diseases. This applies particularly to glaucoma and diabetic eye disease. The management of eye conditions in the elderly is also an important and increasing primary care problem.

Essential for medical students and general practitioners as well as optometrists and nurses, the book is problem-orientated and deals with the science of Ophthalmology at a basic level. This third edition includes more and better colour illustrations and the text is kept simple but explanatory. The authors’ aim is to avoid technical terms where they can be replaced by plain English.

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• Hardcover: 754 pages
• Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 1 edition (October 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0781797012
• ISBN-13: 978-0781797016

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• Hardcover: 951 pages
• Publisher: Cornell University Press; 8 Sub edition (July 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0801418968
• ISBN-13: 978-0801418969

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• Hardcover: 536 pages
• Publisher: Informa Healthcare; 2 edition (June 15, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0824729250
• ISBN-13: 978-0824729257

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Taking readers from the research laboratory to the bedside, this Second Edition compiles essential information on the pharmacodynamics of all major classes of the antimicrobial armamentarium including penicillins, cephalosposorins, cephamycins, carbapenems, monobactams, aminoglycosides, quinolones, macrolides, antifungals, antivirals, and emerging agents currently in development. Written by experienced professionals in the field, this guide uses an abundance of examples to depict methods to apply pharmacodynamic concepts to everyday clinical practice.

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• Hardcover: 284 pages
• Publisher: Saunders; 1 edition (September 9, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1437712312
• ISBN-13: 978-1437712315

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This issue covers the full gamut of infectious disease issues encountered in the ICU, including the approach to the febrile patient, management of septic shock, severe community-acquired pneumonia, management of ventilator-associated pneumonia, approach to the immunocompromised host, bloodstream infection, severe soft tissue infections, management of intra-abdominal sepsis, meningitis and brain abscess, treatment of fungal infections, acute infective endocarditis, new antimicrobial agents, antimicrobial stewardship, infection control, and C. difficile infection.

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• Paperback: 264 pages
• Publisher: Churchill Livingstone; 2 edition (November 30, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0443103038
• ISBN-13: 978-0443103032

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Comprehensive yet compact, CLINICAL MICROBIOLOBY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES is the ultimate user-friendly manual for students and specialists alike. Equally suitable for initial study or quick reference, the logical arrangement and colour-coded summary format belie the extensive scope of this book as an information resource. Clear, accurate, up-to-date, wide-ranging, and memorable!

• Subject matter is presented in two page topics for you to understand easily and remember
• Covers both the more scientific aspects of the subject and also clinical infection
  • All 1st edition topics completely revised and updated – increased coverage of infections of current or recent interest (eg SARS, bird flu etc.)
  • Now with virology! Approximately nine new double-page spreads on specifically viral topics and the existing disease-based double-page spreads now include more information on viral causes.

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• Hardcover: 1488 pages
• Publisher: Academic Press; 1 edition (January 6, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0123694086
• ISBN-13: 978-0123694089

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The last 20 years has seen a rapid increase in infectious diseases, particularly those that are termed “emerging diseases” such as SARS, “neglected diseases” such as malaria and those that are deemed biothreats such as anthrax. It is well-recognized that the most effective modality for preventing infectious diseases is vaccination. This book provides researchers with a better understanding of what is currently known about these diseases, including whether there is a vaccine available or under development. It also informs readers of the key issues in development of a vaccine for each disease.

* Provides a comprehensive treatise of the agents that are responsible for emerging and neglected diseases and those that can be used as biothreats
* Includes the processes such as the vaccine development pathway, vaccine manufacturing and regulatory issues that are critical to the generation of these vaccines to the marketplace
* Each chapter will include a map of the world showing where that particular disease is naturally found.

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• Hardcover: 584 pages
• Publisher: Informa Healthcare; 4 edition (March 26, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 142008495X
• ISBN-13: 978-1420084955

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Written from the perspective of the diagnostician, this significantly expanded Third Edition explores all human viral diseases and the use of molecular techniques to detect and manage these diseases. This case-based and example-driven text provides extensive information on molecular detection of viruses and the design and validation of molecular assays.

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• Hardcover: 2065 pages
• Publisher: Saunders Ltd.; 10 edition (January 31, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0702027774
• ISBN-13: 978-0702027772

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The new 10th edition of this well-respected reference includes thoroughly revised and reviewed information with content on new diseases for the most up-to-date information on diseases effecting sheep, pigs, goats, horses, and cattle. Divided into two sections, General Medicine and Special Medicine, the book covers topics ranging from the clinical examination and manifestation of disease in organ systems to specific diseases of the large animal species.

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• Hardcover: 568 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; Ill edition (June 2, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0195175093
• ISBN-13: 978-0195175097

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The Earth’s biodiversity-the rich variety of life on our planet-is disappearing at an alarming rate. And while many books have focused on the expected ecological consequences, or on the aesthetic, ethical, sociological, or economic dimensions of this loss, Sustaining Life is the first book to examine the full range of potential threats that diminishing biodiversity poses to human health.

Edited and written by Harvard Medical School physicians Eric Chivian and Aaron Bernstein, along with more than 100 leading scientists who contributed to writing and reviewing the book, Sustaining Life presents a comprehensive–and sobering–view of how human medicines, biomedical research, the emergence and spread of infectious diseases, and the production of food, both on land and in the oceans, depend on biodiversity. The book’s ten chapters cover everything from what biodiversity is and how human activity threatens it to how we as individuals can help conserve the world’s richly varied biota. Seven groups of organisms, some of the most endangered on Earth, provide detailed case studies to illustrate the contributions they have already made to human medicine, and those they are expected to make if we do not drive them to extinction. Drawing on the latest research, but written in language a general reader can easily follow, Sustaining Life argues that we can no longer see ourselves as separate from the natural world, nor assume that we will not be harmed by its alteration. Our health, as the authors so vividly show, depends on the health of other species and on the vitality of natural ecosystems.

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