Comprehensive Textbook of Infectious Diseases
Contents: 1. Infectious Disease Subspecialty Role in Indian Healthcare Settings. 2. Antibiotic Strategies in the Era of Multidrug Resistance (From Penicillin to Polymyxins-E and Beyond). 3. Febrile Illnesses and Pictorial Skin Rashes (Acute Onset Fever with No Focus of Infections). 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. 8. Central Nervous System (CNS): Acute Infections. 9. Encephalitis: Infectious and Immune-mediated (Infectious, Parainfectious Immune-mediated and Noninfectious Encephalitis Disorder). 10. Skin and Soft Tissue Infections in Adults/Children. 11. Pricks, Bites and Scratches (Precaution and Preventions). 12. Infectious Diseases 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 (Childhood-Adolescent-Adults). 16. Infectious Diarrhea. 17. Urinary Tract Infections in Childhood and Adults. 18. Bone and Joint Infections. 19. Clinical Virology (Systemic Viral Infections). 20. Systemic Fungal Diseases and Antifungal Drugs Candidiasis/Aspergillus/Mucormycosis/Cryptococcosis/Blastomycosis/Histoplasmosis/Coccidioidomycosis/Sporotrichosis). 21. Parasitic Diseases and Drugs. 22. Febrile Neutropenia (Adults and Pediatric Perspective). 23. Infections in Transplant Recipients. 24. Obstetrical Infections (Pregnant Women, Fetus and Newborn). 25. Infectious Diseases in Dentistry and Dental Healthcare Settings (Preventing Disease Transmission in Dental Care Settings). 26. Recurrent Infections due to Immune Deficiencies. 27. Microbiome (Human Microbiome in Health and Disease). 28. Hospital-acquired Infections and Healthcare-associated Infections. 29. Therapeutic Antibodies for Infectious Diseases [Polyclonal Immune Globulin Intravenous (IGIV) and Monoclonal Antibodies (mAbs)]. 30. Vaccinology (Principles and Practices: An Essential Guide). Index.
This textbook provides detailed overview of a range of topics necessary for understanding infectious diseases on a framework for educating healthcare providers at all levels and all medical specialties. Primarily aimed to offer important backgrounds on regional disease epidemiology, pathogenesis, social, and ethical aspects of disease control through the use of specific antimicrobial agents and preventive vaccines. This book is an effective tool for infectious disease physicians, internists and all other clinicians who wish to practice evidence-based medicine. 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.
Key Features
• The second edition provides wealth of timely information and up-to-date overview of the commonly encountering infectious diseases in the clinical practice.
• This book 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 summarizing referenced tables with differential diagnosis, laboratory diagnosis and treatment aspects.
• Valuable appendices provide cross reference information for each of the bacterial, viral, fungal and parasitic diseases.
