Principles and Practice of Pediatric Infectious Diseases - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0323401813 ISBN 13: 9780323401814

Publisher: Elsevier, 2017

Synopsis

Comprehensive in scope, yet concise and easy to manage, Principles and Practice of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, 5th Edition, by Drs. Sarah Long, Charles Prober, and Marc Fischer, is your go-to resource for authoritative information on infectious diseases in children and adolescents. A veritable "who's who" of global authorities provides the practical knowledge you need to understand, diagnose, and manage almost any pediatric infectious disease you may encounter.

• Features a consistent, easy-access format with high-yield information boxes, highlighted key points, and an abundance of detailed illustrations and at-a-glance tables.
• Allows quick look-up by clinical presentation, pathogen, or type of host.

• Includes coverage of the latest vaccine products, recommendations, and effectiveness as well as expanded diagnostics and therapies for autoinflammatory/periodic fever syndromes.
• Covers emerging viruses such as Zika, Ebola, and EV-D68, as well as infectious risks of immunomodulating drugs and expanding antimicrobial resistance patterns.
• Discusses expanding antimicrobial resistance patterns and new therapies for viral and fungal infections and resistant bacterial infections.
• Expert Consult eBook version included with purchase. This enhanced eBook experience allows you to search all of the text, figures, images, videos (including video updates), glossary, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

About this title

About the Authors

Dr. Marc Fischer is a pediatric infectious disease specialist in Fort Collins, Colorado. He received his medical degree from Duke University School of Medicine and has been in practice for more than 20 years.

Sarah S. Long is Professor of pediatrics at Drexel University College of Medicine. Dr. Long is an associate editor of The Journal of Pediatrics, as well as the Red Book Report of the Committee on Infectious Diseases of the American Academy of Pediatrics. She has chaired the program committee for annual meetings of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society. She sits on research advisory committees for the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Edition details

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0323401813
• ISBN 13: 9780323401814
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 1688
• Editor: Fischer MD MPH Marc, Long MD Sarah S., Prober MD Charles G.