Contents:

Acknowledgments
Preface/Introduction
How the book should be used and understood
Section One: Skin and Soft Tissue Infections
Section Two: Fever of Unknown Origin and Drug Induced Fever
Section Three: Dermatologic Manifestations of Infectious and Non–Infectious Diseases
Section Four: Diseases Acquired Through Close Contact with Animals
Section Five: Travel–associated Blood–borne Parasitic Infection
Section Six: Gulf Coast Tick Rash Illness
Section Seven: Acute and Chronic Subcutaneous Fungal Infections
Section Eight: Endocarditis with Unusual Organisms or Characteristics
Section Nine: Severe Systemic Fungal & Other Infections in AIDS Patients
Section Ten: Toxic Manifestations of Infectious and Non–infectious Diseases
Section Eleven: Skin and Soft Tissue Infections Seen Post Hurricane Katrina
Section Twelve: Miscellaneous Other Infections
Index
About the Author: (see inside cover)

––The cases presented were seen between 1997 and 2012, a 15 year period, and include inpatients and outpatients.

––The presentations reflect the time and period during which the patients (cases) were encountered. Diagnostic and treatment modalities, therefore, reflect those available at the time and place of care.

––All of these cases were consultations provided to physicians practicing in the community setting (whether hospital–based or in office practice).

––All personal identifiers have been removed (including names of institutions where care was provided), in order to protect the identity of the patients.  However, the dates of patient encounters (consults) have been included for context, as well as the season of the year, as these may be important epidemiologic clues to making a correct diagnosis.

––At the end of each case presentation, simple diagnostic clues will be addressed and any lessons learnt from the case.