Main description:

Emerging Infectious Diseases: Clinical Case Studies, Second Edition, Volume Three, is an easy-to-use, extraordinarily informative text that belongs on every clinician's shelf. The book elegantly synthesizes the clinical, microbiologic and epidemiologic information that is critical for patient diagnosis and for use in recognizing and mitigating outbreaks. The book presents cases with discussions that fill in the gaps on critical topics. Discussions on pathogenesis provide detailed microbiological information on each infection in a "teaching" style, thus making this resource interesting for a very broad audience.

Contents:

1. Introduction. what is an emerging infection? What infections are emerging?
2. Methodology of the book. According to the agents: viruses, bacteria, parasites. Infections according to the organ systems
3. Cases. Viruses. Bacteria. Fungus. Parasites. Prions
4. Emerging scientific fields developed by emerging infections
5. Dictionary