Core Concepts in Clinical Infectious Diseases (CCCID)

Core Concepts in Clinical Infectious Diseases (CCCID) provides medical students and researchers, infectious disease fellows, and practicing clinicians with key clinical concepts in the differential diagnosis and workup of infectious diseases. With the use of tables, charts, and problem-oriented medical diagnosis, it will provide a way of organizing and thinking about commonly seen clinical presentations of infectious diseases. Instead of discussing each disease process or any particular infectious process, this book will assist clinicians in seeing the forest and not focusing on the leaf.

Graphs and tables have been constructed over 14 years of taking notes, teaching clinical infectious diseases, and discussing real clinical cases. This book is not about acquiring the structure of infectious diseases that is presented in classic textbooks of infectious disease; instead, it is about refining the process of putting the pieces together in clinical thinking to achieve an accurate clinical diagnosis and thus improved patient care.

• Assists the reader in connecting the dots (process of accumulating real-time knowledge) during the thinking process of clinical decision-making in the area of infectious diseases
• Uses tables and charts for easy understanding and application
• Contains a manual style that targets different audiences, such as medical students, hospital medicine specialists, outpatient internal medicine practitioners, infectious disease fellows in training, and practicing clinicians
• Provides an up-to-date discussion of core concepts in clinical infectious diseases

Researchers and advanced students in the fields of infectious diseases, microbiology, public health and immunology

Dedication

Preface

Chapter 1: Sepsis

• Abstract
• Diagnostic approach to sepsis
• Infection
• Sepsis
• Hospital acquired sepsis
• Community acquired sepsis

Chapter 2: Bloodstream Infections

• Abstract
• Diagnostic approach to bloodstream infections
• Bacteremia
• Endovascular infections
• Fungemia
• Catheter-associated bloodstream infections

Chapter 3: Central Nervous System Syndromes

• Abstract
• Diagnostic approach and differential diagnosis of major neurologic syndromes
• Major infectious diseases affecting the spinal cord, nerve roots, and peripheral nerves

Chapter 4: Ocular Infections

• Abstract
• Diagnostic approach to ocular infections

Chapter 5: Upper Airway Infections

• Abstract
• Diagnostic approach to upper respiratory infections

Chapter 6: Lower Airway Infections

• Abstract
• Diagnostic approach to lower respiratory infections

Chapter 7: Neck and Thoracic Infections

• Abstract
• Diagnostic approach to thoracic and neck infections

Chapter 8: Abdominal/Pelvic Infections

• Abstract
• Diagnostic approach to abdominal and pelvic infections

Chapter 9: Genitourinary Infections

• Abstract
• Diagnostic approach to genitourinary infections and inflammatory infections

Chapter 10: Cutaneous, Subcutaneous, and Deep Tissue Infections

• Abstract
• Diagnostic approach to skin and soft-tissue infectious syndromes

Chapter 11: Osteoarticular Infections

• Abstract
• Diagnostic approach to osteoarticular infections
• Drug-induced bone disorders seen by infectious diseases clinicians

Chapter 12: Nonsuppurative Manifestations of Infections

• Abstract
• Diagnostic approach to nonsuppurative manifestations of infectious pathogens
• Glomerulonephritis
• Glomerulonephritis associated with infective bacterial endocarditis
• Membranoproliferative GN associated with ventricular shunts
• Viral-induced focal segmental glomerulosclerosis
• Membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis associated with hepatitis C virus
• Membranous nephropathy associated with hepatitis B virus
• Amyloidosis
• Toxin-mediated diseases
• Malignancies associated with infectious diseases
• Systemic vasculitis

Chapter 13: Inflammatory and Autoimmune Syndromes Mimickers of Infection

• Abstract
• Diagnostic approach to inflammatory and autoimmune conditions mimicking an infectious disease
• Autoimmunity
• Autoinflammation

Chapter 14: Syndromes in Travel and Tropical Medicine

• Abstract
• Diagnostic approach to travel and tropical medicine syndromes
• Clinical syndromes in travel and tropical medicine
• Fever and travel
• Gastrointestinal disease and travel
• Dermatologic conditions and travel
• Eosinophilia and travel
• Diagnostic approach to common tropical diseases

Chapter 15: Infectious Syndromes Associated With Immunodeficiencies

• Abstract
• Diagnostic approach to selected primary and secondary immunodeficiencies
• Combined variable immunodeficiency
• Other immunodeficiencies caused by antibody deficiencies
• Immunodeficiencies associated with autoantibodies to cytokines
• Chronic granulomatous disease
• Complement deficiencies
• Neutropenia
• Immunodeficiency associated with HIV/AIDS
• Infections associated with solid organ and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
• Infections associated with diabetes mellitus

Chapter 16: Specific Organ Syndromes

• Abstract
• Rhabdomyolysis
• Acid–base disorders and infectious diseases
• Electrolyte abnormalities and infectious diseases
• Endocrine organs and infectious diseases
• Adrenal glands
• Hematologic abnormalities

Chapter 17: Febrile Syndromes

• Abstract
• Diagnostic approach to febrile syndromes in infectious diseases

Subject Index