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By
Alexander McMillan, MD, FRCP, FRCP(Ed), Consultant Physician, Department of Genito-Urinary Medicine, Royal Infirmary, Lauriston Place, Edinburgh
Hugh Young, Bsc, PhD, DSc, FRCPath, Senior Lecturer, Medical Microbiology, The University of Edinburgh Medical School; Director, Scottish Neisseria
gonorrhoeae Reference Laboratory, The Lothian University Hospitals NHS Trust, Edinburgh, UK
Marie Ogilvie, MD, FRCPath, Senior Lecturer, Medical School, The University of Edinburgh, UK
Gordon Scott, MB, ChB, FRCP(Ed), Consultant Physician, Department Genito-Urinary Medicine, Royal Infirmary, Lauriston Place, Edinburgh
Description
This new, one-stop reference combines authoritative coverage of clinical practice in sexually transmitted disease and sexual health with
a unique and comprehensive collection of 500 superb color photographs to illustrate the key features of this worldwide problem. Chapters
follow a logical format: Introduction, Virology, Pathology, Pathogenesis, Epidemiology, Clinical Features, Complications of Infection,
Laboratory Diagnosis, Management, Prevention of Transmission and Special Circumstances. Emphasizes the clinical approach to the management
of the patient with a sexually transmissible infection, and contains sufficient basic science to allow the reader to critically examine
the rationale behind the available diagnostic tests and treatments.
Audience
STD specialists; ID Physicians; obstetricians & Gynecologists; genitourinary physicians and primary care physicians
Contents
Section 1: Introduction
1. Human Sexuality: the background to infection
2. Health Education and Sexually
Transmissible Infections
3. Some Social, Ethical, and Medico – Legal Aspects of Sexually Transmissible Infections
4. Clinical Investigation
of the Patient
Section 2: Viral Infections
5. Human Papillomavirus Infection
6. Herpes Simplex
Virus Infection
7. Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection
8. Sexually Transmissible Viral Hepatitis
9. Other Sexually Transmissible
Viruses
Section 3: Bacterial, Protozoal and Arthropod Infections
10. Chlamydial Infection
11.
Gonorrhea
12. Pelvic Inflammatory Disease
13. Prostatitis, Epdidymitis, and Orchitis
14. Sexually Acquired Reactive Arthritis
and Reiter's Disease
15. Syphilis and Endemic Treponematoses
16. Chancroid and Granuloma Inguinale
17. Vaginal Infections –
Candidiasis, Trichomoniasis, Bacteria Vaginoisis
18. Intestinal and Anorectal Disorders in Homosexual Men
19. Anthropoid Infestations
20.
Ulceration and Other Conditions of the External Genitalia
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Hardbound, 608 pages, publication date: OCT-2002
ISBN-13: 978-0-7020-2538-9
ISBN-10: 0-7020-2538-0
Imprint: SAUNDERS
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Last update: 10 Sep 2009
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