FEIGIN AND CHERRS TEXTBOOK OF PEDIATRIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES 2 VOL SET 8ED (HB 2019)

Cherry MD MSc, James; Demmler-Harrison MD, Gail J.; Kaplan MD, Sheldon L.; Steinbach MD, William; Hotez MD PhD, Peter J.

ISBN 10: 0323376924 / ISBN 13: 9780323376921

Published by Elsevier, 2018

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: FEIGIN AND CHERRS TEXTBOOK OF PEDIATRIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES 2 VOL SET 8ED (HB 2019)
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0323376924
• ISBN 13: 9780323376921
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Offering unparalleled coverage of infectious diseases in children and adolescents, Feigin & Cherry’s Textbook of Pediatric Infectious Diseases 8th Edition: 2-Volume Set, continues to provide the information you need on epidemiology, public health, preventive medicine, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, treatment, and much more. This extensively revised edition by Drs. James Cherry, Gail J. Demmler-Harrison, Sheldon L. Kaplan, William J. Steinbach, and Peter J. Hotez, offers a brand-new full-color design, new color images, new guidelines, and new content, reflecting today’s more aggressive infectious and resistant strains as well as emerging and re-emerging diseases

• Discusses infectious diseases according to organ system, as well as individually by microorganisms, placing emphasis on the clinical manifestations that may be related to the organism causing the disease.
• Provides detailed information regarding the best means to establish a diagnosis, explicit recommendations for therapy, and the most appropriate uses of diagnostic imaging.

• Features expanded information on infections in the compromised host; immunomodulating agents and their potential use in the treatment of infectious diseases; and Ebola virus.
• Contains hundreds of new color images throughout, as well as new guidelines, new resistance epidemiology, and new Global Health Milestones.
• Includes new chapters on Zika virus and Guillain-Barré syndrome.
• Expert Consult™ eBook version included with purchase. This enhanced eBook experience allows you to search all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

About the Author

James D. Cherry, MD, MSc is a Distinguished Research Professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital, Division of Infectious Diseases. Dr. Cherry established one of the first formal pediatric infectious disease fellowship programs in the world in 1963 at the University of Wisconsin. In 1973 Dr. Cherry started the first pediatric infectious training program at UCLA. During his 43 years tenure at UCLA, numerous trainees have gone on to be leaders in pediatric infectious diseases in the US and around the world. Dr. Cherry has won many awards during his career.