Infectious
Diseases: A clinical approach, 2/e
Most textbooks on infectious diseases take a disease-specific and/or organ-specific
approach. In this book a patient-centred approach is taken. The starting
point is the patient’s presenting problem and its evolution. The
focus is on clinical diagnosis and principles of management.
The book comprises six parts. Part I, ‘General approach to infectious diseases’, establishes the patient-centred approach. Part II outlines presenting problems and syndromes, and Part III, infections of organ systems. These two sections highlight day-to-day problems faced by clinicians, differential diagnoses and management. Part IV covers specific infections, chosen for their importance or unique nature, and Part V deals with infectious problems in specific populations. Part VI outlines the principles of antimicrobial therapy and disease prevention through immunisation. The book concludes with a set of ‘golden rules of infectious diseases’.
This is not a comprehensive infectious diseases textbook; it contains what the editors consider to be core knowledge and skills for the practising clinician. Infectious diseases in adults are the primary focus; paediatric infections are not covered in any detail.
In this Second edition:
- Tania Sorrell and Joe McCormack have joined the editorial group.
- All first edition (2001) chapters have been thoroughly reviewed and updated, many have been significantly expanded, and key references included.
- Two new chapters - ‘Infections in the South-West Pacific region’, and ‘Antiparasitic agents’ – have been added.
- A companion CD of illustrations and cases, prepared by Andrew Fuller and Rob Baird, who cast a wide net for first class material, is included.
Senior medical students, graduates, and more experienced clinicians interested in the clinical skills of infectious diseases, will find this book refreshingly straightforward, easy to read, and rich with clinical pearls.
‘This is an eminently practical book designed to assist the clinician, written by an impressive array of experts from all Australian states and territories. . . and can be unreservedly recommended to all medical graduates and undergraduates’.
From the Foreword, by Clem R Boughton AO, Consultant Emeritus, Infectious Diseases, University of New South Wales:
Bibliographic
details:
Published, April, 2005. 255 x 190mm. 632 pages.
Includes index. Includes companion CD.
Paperback.
ISBN: 0-9578617-7-X. $A130.00 rrp.