Tropical Infectious Diseases: Principles, Pathogens and Practice (Expert Consult - Online and Print) - Hardcover

Guerrant MD, Richard L.; Walker MD, David H.; Weller, Peter F.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0702039357 ISBN 13: 9780702039355

Verlag: Saunders, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

Tropical Infectious Diseases: Principles, Pathogens and Practice, by Drs. Richard L. Guerrant, David H. Walker, and Peter F. Weller, delivers the expert, encyclopedic guidance you need to overcome the toughest clinical challenges in diagnosing and treating diseases caused by infectious agents from tropical regions. Sweeping updates to this 3rd edition include vaccines, SARS, hepatitis A-E, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus, tick-borne encephalitis and Omsk hemorrhagic fever, human papilloma virus, and mucormycosis. New full-color images throughout allow you to more accurately view the clinical manifestations of each disease and better visualize the life cycles of infectious agents. And, full-text online access at www.expertconsult.com enables you to perform quick searches and rapidly locate and download images. Definitive, state-of-the-art coverage of pathophysiology as well as clinical management makes this the reference you’ll want to consult - online and in print - whenever you are confronted with tropical infections, whether familiar or unfamiliar!

• Obtain complete and trustworthy advice from hundreds of the leading experts on tropical diseases worldwide, including cutting-edge summaries of pathophysiology and epidemiology as well as clinical management.

• Get the latest answers on vaccines, SARS, hepatitis A-E, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus, tick-borne encephalitis and Omsk hemorrhagic fever, human papilloma virus, mucormycosis, and much more.
• Implement best practices from all over the world with guidance from almost twice as many international authors - over 100 representing more than 35 countries.
• Accurately view the clinical manifestations of each disease and visualize the life cycles of infectious agents with new full-color images throughout.
• Access the complete contents online at www.expertconsult.com, rapidly searchable; rapidly locate and download all of the images in either PowerPoint or JPEG format; and follow links to PubMed abstracts for most references.
• Reference the book more easily thanks to a new streamlined, single-volume format, with all of the references online.

Über diesen Titel

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Richard L Guerrant MD

Thomas H Hunter Professor of International Medicine

Director, Center for Global Health, Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health

University of Virginia School of Medicine

Charlottesville

VA

USA

David H Walker MD

Carmage and Martha Walls Distinguished University Chair in Tropical Diseases

Director, WHO Collaborating Center for Tropical Diseases

Professor and Chair,

Department of Pathology

University of Texas Medical Branch

Galveston

TX

USA

Peter F. Weller is Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Co-Chief, Infectious Disease Division; Vice Chair of Research in the Department of Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Saunders
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0702039357
• ISBN 13: 9780702039355
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 3
• Anzahl der Seiten: 1156
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Dario flaccovio editore, cricscuolo barbara; 3450270287; b.criscuolo@lswr.it; ; viale enrico forlanini, 21; milano; 20100; Italien