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CLINICAL MYCOLOGY WITH CD-ROM
Clinical Mycology with CD-ROM
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Second Edition

By
Elias Anaissie, MD, Director, Supportive Care, Myeloma Institute, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA
Michael McGinnis, PhD, Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX
Michael Pfaller, MD, Professor, Department of Pathology, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA

Description
The first book of its kind to focus on the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of patients with fungal infections, this definitive reference returns in a completely revised, full-color new edition. It presents specific recommendations for understanding, controlling, and preventing fungal infections based upon underlying principles of epidemiology and infection control policy, pathogenesis, immunology, histopathology, and laboratory diagnosis and antifungal therapy. More than 560 photographs, illustrations, and tables depict conditions as they appear in real life and equip you to identify clinical manifestations with accuracy. Expanded therapy content helps you implement the most appropriate treatment quickly, and a bonus CD-ROM?featuring all of the images from the text?enables you to enhance your electronic presentations.

Audience
Infectious Disease

Contents


Section 1: General Principles, including Diagnosis


1. The Epidemiology of Fungal Infections, Shawn R. Lockhart, Daniel J. Diekema & Michael A. Pfaller

2. Recent Advances in Understanding Human Opportunistic Fungal Pathogenesis Mechanisms, Robert A. Crammer & John R. Perfect

3. Immunology, Thomas S. Harrison & Suart M. Levitz

4. The Laboratory and Clinical Mycology, Michael A. Pfaller & Michael R. McGinnis

5. Histopathology of Fungal Infections, Vicki J. Schnadig & Gail L. Woods

6. Radiology of Fungal Infections, Prasanna G. Vibhute, Venkat R. Surabhi, Angel Gomez, Santiago Restrepo, Michael McCarthy, Carlos Bazan III, Kedar Chintapalli

7. Antifungal Therapy, Elias A. Anaissie & Paul Gubbins



Section 2: The Organisms


8. Candida, Maria C. Dignani, Joseph S. Solomkin & Elias J. Anaissie

9. Cryptococcus, Marianna A. Viviani & Anna Maria Tortorano

10. Infections Caused by Non - Candida, Non - Cryptococcus Yeasts, Michael A. Pfaller, Daniel J. Diekema & William G. Merz

11. Aspergillus, Malcolm D. Richardson & Willian Hope

12. Zygomycosis,Luis Ostrosky-Zeichner, Michael Smith & Michael R. McGinnis

13. Fusarium and other Hyaline Hyphomycetes, Elias J. Anaissie

14. Dematiaceous Fungi, Deanna A. Sutton, Michael G. Rinaldi & Stephen E. Sanche

15. Endemic Mycoses, Gregory M. Anstead & Thomas Patterson

16. Dermatophytes and Dermatophytoses, Mahmoud A. Ghannoum & Nancy C Isham

17. Pneumocystis, Michael A. Pfaller & Elias J. Anaissie

18. Anomalous Fungal and Fungal?like Infections: Lacaziosis, Pythiosis and Rhinosporidiosis, Leonel Mendoza & Raquel Vilela



Section 3: Clinical Syndromes and Organ Systems


19. Fungal Infections in the patient with Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection, Michael Saccente

20. Fungal Infections in Cancer Patients, Elias J. Anaissie

21. Fungal Infections in the Organ Transplant Recipient, Robert H. Rubin

22. Fungal Infections in Pediatric Patients, Andreas H. Groll, Emmanuel Roilides & Thomas J. Walsh

23. Oral Fungal Infections, William G. Powderly

24. Cutaneous and Subcutaneous Mycoses, Natalia Mendoza, Anita Arora, Cesar A. Arias, Carlos A. Hernandez, Vandana Madkam & Stephen K. Tyring

25. Fungal Infection of Bone and Joint, Carol A. Kemper & Stanley C. Deresinski

26. Fungal Infections of the Genitourinary Tract, Jack D. Sobel

27. Diagnosis and Treatment of Fungal Infections of the Respiratory Tract, Thomas J. Walsh

28. Central Nervous System Infection, Richard J. Hamill

29. Hematogenously Disseminated Fungal Infections, Stephanie L. Baer & Peter G. Pappas

30. Fungal Infections of the Eye, Golnaz Javey, Victor L. Yu & Jeffery J. Zuravleff



Section 4: Special Considerations


31. Geographic, Travel and Occupational Mycology, Robert W. Bradsher

32. Mycotoxins and their Effects on Humans, Michael Smith & Michael R. McGinnis

Bibliographic details
Hardbound, 700 pages, publication date: JAN-2009
ISBN-13: 978-1-4160-5680-5
ISBN-10: 1-4160-5680-7
Imprint: CHURCHILL LIVINGSTONE


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