Comprehensive Textbook of Infectious Diseases 2nd Edition, Kindle Edition

The aim of this comprehensive textbook is to focus on the infectious diseases. 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 consists of 30 chapters which include infectious disease subspecialty role in Indian healthcare settings, antibiotic strategies in the era of multidrug resistance, febrile illnesses and pictorial skin rashes, lingering fever beyond malaria in Indian healthcare settings, mosquito-borne malarial and viral diseases, viral hemorrhagic fevers, skin and soft tissue infections in adults/children, infectious diseases of the head and neck, pulmonary infections: adults and childhood, etc. Each chapter is amply illustrated with photographs and figures provide unparalleled visual guidance. There are summarizing referenced tables with differential diagnosis and elucidate appropriate laboratory diagnosis and treatment aspects in detail. Also, valuable appendices provide cross reference information for each of the bacterial, viral, fungal, and parasitic diseases. This book is an effective tool for infectious disease physicians, internists and all other clinicians who wish to practice evidence-based medicine. Read more