Features
- Cover Type: Hard Cover with 616 pages
- Published by: Springer Publishing Company
- Edition: 2nd Edition May 14, 2007
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0826102506
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0826102508
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Book Dimensions:
9 x 5.9 x 1.4 inches
- Weighs: 2 pounds
Product Review
"This new work updates the highly regarded first editionand is equally excellent. It offers a wealth of timely information about a variety of emerging and reemerging infectionsThis is an great reference for anyone interested in emerging infections, and will be a valuable resource for health science students, especially those in nursing and public health.Highly recommended. Upper-level undergraduates through professionals/practitioners." (
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Product Description
"This new work updates the highly regarded first editionand is equally excellent. It offers a wealth of timely information about a variety of emerging and reemerging infectionsThis is an great reference for anyone interested in emerging infections, and will be a valuable resource for health science students, especially those in nursing and public health.Highly recommended. Upper-level undergraduates through professionals/practitioners."--
Choice Emerging, re-emerging, and antibiotic-resistant infectious diseases continue to increase at an alarming rate throughout the world. Written for a wide range of health professionals, particularly nurses, this revised edition provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of these diseases: their epidemiology, clinical manifestations, prevention, and treatment.
With contributions by a multidisciplinary team of nurses, physicians, and infectious disease specialists, the book includes material on the most recent and important new emerging infectious diseases:
- Avian influenza and SARS
- Issues of demographics and microbial resistance
- Special topics, including bioterrorism
- Behavioral and cultural factors
- Infectious etiologies of chronic diseases
- Travel and recreational exposure
Each chapter is amply illustrated with clinical case examples to demonstrate the pitfalls in differential diagnosis and elucidate proper management and treatment. Valuable appendices provide critical reference information for each of the bacterial, viral, fungal, and parasitic diseases. (20071201)