Emerging Infectious Diseases: Trends and Issues, 2nd Edition

Emerging Infectious Diseases: Trends and Issues, 2nd Edition

appearing 5 years after the fi rst edition, has added several important diseases such as severe acute respiratory syndrome, avian infl uenza, and monkeypox. The authors also have updated the chapters included in the fi rst edition. At nearly 600 pages, the book gives a broad overview of 22 emerging diseases with mention of many others. Topics such as antimi-crobial drug resistance, bioterrorism...

Emerging Infectious Diseases: Trends and Issues

Preparing a text about emerging and reemerging infections sounds like a contradiction in terms since by the time a book is published, “new” infections may have come and gone. But Lashley and Durham have successfully walked the thin line between being dated on the one hand and providing timely, relevant data on the other. Several chapters place emerging infections and related problems such as mi...

Infectious Diseases: A Clinical Approach, 2nd Edition

The recent award of the Nobel Prize to Barry Marshall and J. Robin Warren for their discovery of Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease has again put infectious diseases on to the front page of newspapers around the world. Notably, their initial work was performed in Perth, Australia. The clinical practice of infectious diseases, and associated research into micr...

Infectious Diseases, 3d Edition

Surgical Infectious Diseases, 3rd Edition

As a review of organ systems or surgical procedures, these volumes will provide a valuable tool to incipient surgeons as well as to experienced ones who wish to brush up on areas outside their immediate fields of expertise. There is something here for every devotee of the surgical sciences. The editors have assembled experts from both sides of the Atlantic to create an international roster of c...