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Essentials of Clinical Infectious Diseases

Second Edition
Editor

William F. Wright, DO, MPH

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Praise for the previous edition:

“Approaches near perfection…This is an excellent introduction to infectious diseases by a group of authors who take a straightforward and bullet-point approach to thinking and talking about clinical issues…”—Doody’s Reviews

Updated second edition of the concise but comprehensive handbook of clinical infectious disease for students, residents, primary care medical providers, nurses, and PAs. Written in outline format with short, focused chapters, the book presents a systematic method for understanding basic mechanisms, establishing a diagnosis, and implementing appropriate treatment for commonly encountered problems.

Essentials of Clinical Infectious Diseases, Second Edition begins with a general framework covering clinical reasoning, antimicrobial agents and microbiology, and antimicrobial stewardship. Individual chapters devoted to the broad range of infectious diseases are organized by body system and feature targeted presentation of pathogenesis and risk factors, microbial causes, clinical manifestations, patient work-up, diagnostic criteria, and medical, antimicrobial, and surgical management. The book also addresses important related topics including fever and neutropenia, approach to evaluating ectoparasite-related infections, sepsis and travel medicine, infection control, and hospital epidemiology. Designed for busy practitioners at any level looking to sharpen the clinical problem-solving skills required to provide the highest quality care to patients with infectious diseases.

Key Features:

  • Includes a new bonus chapter that addresses severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), also known as coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
  • Presents core clinical infectious disease topics in concise easy-to-read format
  • Revised and updated to reflect recent developments in the field consistent with evidence-based literature and current clinical practice guidelines
  • Six new chapters on Lyme disease, anorectal infections, travel medicine, dental infections, antimicrobial stewardship, and clinical reasoning and statistics
  • Focus on the approach to evaluation and management of the patient
  • Incorporates essential antimicrobial therapy information with adult, pediatric, and OB-GYN dosing considerations
Contents

CONTENTS

Contributors

Preface

Acknowledgments

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I. INTRODUCTION TO CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

1. Introduction and Basics of Clinical Reasoning

William F. Wright

2. Introduction to Antimicrobial Stewardship

Susan L. DeBiase

William F. Wright

3. Introduction to Antimicrobial Agents

Emily L. Heil

Neha U. Sheth

William F. Wright

4. Introduction to Medical Microbiology

Nicole M. Parrish

Stefan Riedel

II. APPROACH TO FEVER AND LEUKOCYTOSIS

5. Fever of Unknown Origin

William F. Wright

6. Leukocytosis

William F. Wright

III. APPROACH TO BLOODSTREAM AND CARDIOVASCULAR INFECTIONS

7. Infective Endocarditis

Jennifer Husson

William F. Wright

8. Infectious Myocarditis

William F. Wright

9. Cardiovascular Implantable Prosthetic Device Infections

William F. Wright

10. Infections Involving Intravascular Catheters and Suppurative Thrombophlebitis

Eric Cox

Kerri A. Thom

IV. APPROACH TO PULMONARY INFECTIONS

11. Pneumonia

Ulrike K. Buchwald

Devang M. Patel

12. Empyema

Gonzalo Luizaga

Luciano Kapelusznik

William F. Wright

13. Lung Abscess

Adrian Majid

Ulrike K. Buchwald

Devang M. Patel

14. Tuberculosis

David W. Keckich

Ulrike K. Buchwald

V. APPROACH TO GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTIONS

15. Diverticulitis

William F. Wright

16. Appendicitis

William F. Wright

17. Pancreatic Infections

William F. Wright

18. Infectious Peritonitis

William F. Wright

19. Infectious Diarrhea

William F. Wright

20. Clostridium difficile Colitis

Ryan S. Arnold

William F. Wright

21. Infectious Gastritis—Helicobacter pylori

William F. Wright

22. Anorectal Abscess and Fistula-in-Ano

William F. Wright

VI. APPROACH TO HEPATOBILIARY INFECTIONS

23. Cholecystitis

William F. Wright

24. Acute Cholangitis

William F. Wright

VII. APPROACH TO HEPATIC INFECTIONS

25. Hepatic Abscess

William F. Wright

26. Hepatitis A

William F. Wright

27. Hepatitis B

Luciano Kapelusznik

Rohit Talwani

William F. Wright

28. Hepatitis C

Rohit Talwani

Luciano Kapelusznik

William F. Wright

VIII. APPROACH TO RENAL–URINARY INFECTIONS

29. Urinary Tract Infections

Janaki C. Kuruppu

William F. Wright

30. Pyelonephritis and Renal Abscess

Jason Bailey

Janaki C. Kuruppu

William F. Wright

31. Catheter-Related Urinary Tract Infections

Clare Rock

Kerri A. Thom

William F. Wright

IX. APPROACH TO NEUROLOGICAL INFECTIONS

32. Meningitis and Ventriculitis

William F. Wright

33. Infectious Encephalitis

William F. Wright

34. Brain Abscess

William F. Wright

X. APPROACH TO ORTHOPEDIC-RELATED INFECTIONS

35. Osteomyelitis

William F. Wright

36. Mandibular and Maxillary Osteomyelitis

William F. Wright

37. Septic Arthritis

William F. Wright

38. Periprosthetic Joint Infections

William F. Wright

XI. APPROACH TO SKIN AND SOFT-TISSUE INFECTIONS

39. Non-Necrotizing Skin and Soft-Tissue Infections

William F. Wright

40. Necrotizing Skin and Soft-Tissue Infections

William F. Wright

41. Diabetic Foot Infections

William F. Wright

XII. APPROACH TO SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS

42. Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Eric Cox

Leonard A. Sowah

43. HIV and AIDS

Shivakumar Narayanan

Guesly Delva

Robert R. Redfield

Bruce L. Gilliam

XIII. APPROACH TO INFECTIONS RELATED TO OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY

44. Obstetrics and Gynecology-Related Infections

Jennifer Husson

Leonard A. Sowah

XIV. APPROACH TO EYE INFECTIONS

45. Infectious Keratitis

Jason Bailey

Anthony Amoroso

William F. Wright

46. Endophthalmitis

Adrian Majid

Anthony Amoroso

William F. Wright

XV. APPROACH TO SEPSIS

47. Sepsis and Septic Shock

John Vaz

Devang M. Patel

William F. Wright

XVI. APPROACH TO TRANSPLANT-RELATED INFECTIONS

48. Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Infections

Michael Tablang

David J. Riedel

49. Solid-Organ Transplant Infections

Michael Tablang

Charles E. Davis

XVII. APPROACH TO ECTOPARASITE-RELATED INFECTIONS

50. Lyme Disease

William F. Wright

XVIII. INFECTION CONTROL AND EPIDEMIOLOGY

51. Travel Medicine

Susan L. DeBiase

William F. Wright

52. Basic Approach to Infection Control and Epidemiology

Clare Rock

Surbhi Leekha

Index

Authors

William F. Wright, DO, MPH, Assistant Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Institute for Human Virology, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD

Product Details
  • Release Date: April 9, 2018
  • Paperback / softback
  • 492 Pages
  • Trim Size: 6in x 9in
  • ISBN: 9780826127273
  • eBook ISBN: 9780826127822
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