Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases - Hardcover

 
9780443086861: Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases

Synopsis

2-volume set PLUS access to www.PPIDONLINE.com!

PPID encompasses all that is currently known about the epidemiology, etiology, pathology, microbiology, immunology, and treatment of infectious agents. Completely revised and updated-and with a bold, new 4-color format-it is a complete, essential compendium of knowledge on this vast and complex subject.

Now includes a bound-in CD-ROM with all of the images from the book available for PowerPoint download.

  • Updated WEEKLY to provide the latest advances in the field.
  • Full contents of the 2-volume set fully searchable online.
  • Image library available ONLINE or through the bound-in CD-ROM so you can have images from world-renowned experts in your PowerPoint presentations!


  • New Section on Biodefense with discussions of major pathogens
  • Includes new chapters on hospital preparedness for infections such as SARS, infections in elderly patients, infections in returning travellers, nutrition and infection, alternative therapies for infection, the design and evaluation of clinical trials, and more!
  • Discusses new antibiotics, including Daptomycin, telithromycin, gemifloxacin, as well as new antifungal and antiviral agents


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Book Description

Covers disease by microbe and by clinical syndrome, making it easy to find any subject of interest

About the Author

Raphael Dolin, MD, Maxwell Finland Professor of Medicine (Microbiology & Molecular Genetics), Harvard Medical School; Attending Physician, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts

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