Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases
3rd Edition
Published in November 1989
Book
Hardback
2284 pages
978-0-443-08686-1 (ISBN)
Description
This updated and expanded edition now offers 297 chapters that cover the basic principles of diagnosis and management, major clinical syndromes, all important pathogenic microbes and the diseases they cause, plus a number of specialised topics useful to the practitioner. It contains 24 totally-new chapters, offers a whole section on AIDS with seven chapters and a chapter "Microsporidium Disease", which deals with a new disease just discovered because of AIDS. The text is designed for clinical pathologists, microbiologists, virologists, medical scientists, mycologists, allergists, general practitioners and lecturers of medicine.
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Edition
3rd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Elsevier Health Sciences
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
46 half-tones, 17 line drawings, index
Dimensions
Height: 80 mm
Width: 288 mm
Weight
4230 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-443-08686-1 (9780443086861)
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Other editions
New editions
Gerald L. Mandell | etc.
Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases: Vol 2
Book
10/1994
4th Edition
Churchill Livingstone
€281.02
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Previous edition
Gerald L. Mandell | R.Gordon Douglas | John E. Bennett
Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases
Book
11/1989
Churchill Livingstone
€167.13
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Content
Virulence factors; host defense mechanisms; epidemiology of infectious disease; anti-infective therapy; fever; upper-resporatory tract infections; urinary tract infection; peritonitis and other intra-abdominal infections; cardiovascular infections; central nervous system infections; skin and soft tissue infections; infections related to trauma; gastrointestinal infections and food poisoning; diseases of the reproductive organs and sexually transmitted diseases; eye infections; hepatitis; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS); viral diseases; chlamydial diseases; rickettsiosis; bacterial diseases; mycoses; protozoal diseases; disease due to helminths; ectoparasites; diseases of unknown etiology; infections in special hosts; immunization; protection of travellers.