Krugman's Infectious Diseases of Children |
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| Author:
| Katz, Samuel L.
Gershon, Anne A.
Hotez, Peter J. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-323-01756-5 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2003 |
| Publisher: | Elsevier - Health Sciences Division
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| Imprint: | Mosby |
| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $130.00 |
Book Description:
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This classic text delivers comprehensive, yet concise coverage of childhood exanthems and other infections, offering practical options for their management and treatment. Thoroughly cross-referenced chapters and a wealth of helpful tables, diagrams, charts, photographs, and color plates speed readers to a diagnosis. Chapters cover history, management, and treatment of the major infections affecting children worldwide, including emerging and re-emerging diseases in developing countries...
More DescriptionThis classic text delivers comprehensive, yet concise coverage of childhood exanthems and other infections, offering practical options for their management and treatment. Thoroughly cross-referenced chapters and a wealth of helpful tables, diagrams, charts, photographs, and color plates speed readers to a diagnosis. Chapters cover history, management, and treatment of the major infections affecting children worldwide, including emerging and re-emerging diseases in developing countries (such as malaria and dengue).
Reflects the most recent developments in the field with...
- New chapters on fungal infections, eye infections, cholera, dengue and dengue hemorrhagic fever, malaria, and helminthic infections.
- An updated smallpox/vaccinia chapter with information on bioterrorism and the initiation of smallpox vaccination programs.
- An expanded discussion of pseudomonas infections in the cystic fibrosis chapter.
- Discussions of the newer hepatitis viruses.