| Description |
1 online resource (592 pages) |
| Series |
Lippincott Manual Series |
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Lippincott Manual Series
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| Contents |
MANUAL OF CLINICAL PROBLEMSIN INFECTIOUS DISEASE; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; PREFACE; CONTRIBUTORS; I UpperRespiratory Tract; TONSILLOPHARYNGITIS IN ADULTS; SINUSITIS; INFECTIOUS MONONUCLEOSIS-MANY FACES OF A COMMON DISEASE; II LowerRespiratory Tract; ACUTE BRONCHITIS; ANTIBIOTIC-RESISTANT PNEUMOCOCCI; FEVER AND PLEURAL EFFUSIONS; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA IN THE ELDERLY; NEW PATHOGENS CAUSING PNEUMONIA-SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; III CardiovascularSystem; INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS-DIAGNOSTIC CRITERIA; CULTURE-NEGATIVE ENDOCARDITIS; SURGERY IN ACTIVE INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS |
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ENDOCARDITIS PROPHYLAXISIV GastrointestinalSystem; FILLING DEFECTS OF THE LIVER; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED PERITONITIS; INFECTIONS OF THE HEPATOBILIARY TRACT; MANAGEMENT OF INFECTIOUS DIARRHEA; HEPATITIS C-DIAGNOSIS AND MANAGEMENT; V UrinaryTract; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS-BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THERAPY; ASYMPTOMATIC BACTERIURIA; THE SIGNIFICANCE OF PYURIA; PROSTATITIS; COMPLICATED URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; CANDIDURIA; VI GenitalTract; URETHRAL DISCHARGE; SEROLOGIC TESTS FOR SYPHILIS; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; THERAPY OF GENITAL HERPES; VAGINITIS; HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS; VII NervousSystem |
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ANALYSIS OF CEREBROSPINAL FLUIDCENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION IN IMMUNE SUPPRESSED HOSTS; ACUTE PERIPHERAL FACIAL PALSY; ACUTE INFECTIONS OF THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM IN IMMUNOCOMPETENT PERSONS; CHRONIC MENINGITIS; GUILLAIN-BARRÉSYNDROME; TREATMENT OF VARICELLA-ZOSTER VIRUS AND POSTHERPETIC NEURALGIA; VIII Bonesand Joints; VERTEBRAL OSTEOMYELITIS; INFECTIONS OF PROSTHETIC JOINTS; FEVER AND JOINT PAIN; IX Skinand Soft Tissue; LYME DISEASE-A DIAGNOSTIC CHALLENGE; CELLULITIS AND OTHER SKIN AND SOFT-TISSUE INFECTIONS; PARVOVIRUS INFECTIONS; X Bacteremia |
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GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIUM AND SEPSIS CASCADEMETHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; COAGULASE-NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCI; VANCOMYCIN-RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCI; XI Fever; 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; XII Immunity; RECURRENT FURUNCULOSIS; XIII Nosocomial Infections; POSTOPERATIVE FEVER |
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URINARY CATHETER-RELATED INFECTIONSHEALTHCARE-ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA; MANAGEMENT OF THE EMPLOYEE WITH A NEEDLESTICK INJURY; XIV Zoonoses; HUMAN INFECTIONS AFTER ANIMAL BITES; XV Newly Appreciated Infections; WEST NILE VIRUS; BIOTERRORISM; XVI Prophylaxis of Infection in Travelers; PROPHYLAXIS OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES IN TRAVELERS; XVII Tuberculosis; ROLE OF THE TUBERCULIN SKIN TEST; ISONIAZID TREATMENT OF LATENT TUBERCULOSIS INFECTION-INDICATIONS AND MANAGEMENT; TREATMENT OF TUBERCULOSIS; XVIII Selected Laboratory Procedures; LABORATORY REPORT OF A GRAM-NEGATIVE ROD IN THE BLOOD |
| Summary |
The thoroughly updated Fifth Edition of this popular Spiral® Manual is a practical, reliable quick-reference guide to diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases. Organized for rapid information retrieval, the book provides concise, organ-based summaries of each disease. New chapters cover new pathogens causing pneumonia-SARS, human papillomavirus diagnosis and management, treatment of VZV and post-herpetic neuralgia, parvovirus infections, West Nile virus, agents of bioterrorism, choosing a quinolone, treatment and prevention of influenza, and the role of HIV resistance testing |
| Notes |
Blood culture growing a gram-positive rod |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Communicable diseases -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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Communicable diseases
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| Genre/Form |
Handbooks and manuals
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Brown, Richard B
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Berk, Steven L
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| ISBN |
9781469874203 |
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1469874202 |
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