Krugman's Infectious Diseases of Children (Infectious Diseases of Children ( Krugman's))

This classic text delivers comprehensive, yet concise coverage of childhood exanthems and other infections, offering practical options for their management and treatment. Thoroughly cross-referenced chapters and a wealth of helpful tables, diagrams, charts, photographs, and color plates speed readers to a diagnosis. Chapters cover history, management, and treatment of the major infections affecting children worldwide, including emerging and re-emerging diseases in developing countries (such as malaria and dengue).Reflects the most recent developments in the field with... New chapters on fungal infections, eye infections, cholera, dengue and dengue hemorrhagic fever, malaria, and helminthic infections.An updated smallpox/vaccinia chapter with information on bioterrorism and the initiation of smallpox vaccination programs.An expanded discussion of pseudomonas infections in the cystic fibrosis chapter.Discussions of the newer hepatitis viruses. This Standard Text Offers Comprehensive, Yet Concise Coverage Of Childhood Infections, With Direct And To-the-point Options For Their Management And Treatment. In This 11th Edition, Classic Clinical Descriptions Of The Major Childhood Exanthems And Other Infections Are Combined With New Descriptions Of Emerging And Re-emerging International Infections Such As Malaria And Dengue. The Book Provides Helpful Tables, Diagrams, Charts, Photographs, Color Plates As Well As Cross-referencing Between Chapters To Help Associate Symptoms And Speed Diagnosis. Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome And Human Immunodeficiency Virus -- Botulism -- Cholera -- Cytomegalovirus -- Dengue And Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever -- Diphtheria -- Endocarditis -- Enteroviruses -- Epstein-barr Virus Infections -- Eye Infections -- Fungal Infections In Childhood -- Infections Of The Gastrointestinal Tract -- Helminth Infections -- Haemophilus Influenzae Type B -- Herpes Simplex Virus Infections -- Human Herpesvirus 6, 7, And 8 -- Infection In The Immunoincompetent Child -- Kawasaki Syndrome -- Malaria -- Measles (rubeola) -- Meningitis -- Mumps -- Osteomyelitis And Suppurative Arthritis -- Otitis Media -- Parvovirus Infections -- Pertussis (whooping) Cough -- Pseudomonas Aeruginosa And Cystic Fibrosis -- Rabies (hydrophobia, Rage, Lyssa) -- Respiratory Infections -- Rubella (german Measles) -- Sepsis In The Newborn -- Sexually Transmitted Diseases -- Smallpox And Vaccinia -- Staphylococcal Infections -- Streptococcal Infections -- Tetanus (lockjaw) And Neonatal Tetanus -- Tick-borne Infections -- Toxoplasmosis -- Tuberculosis -- Urinary Tract Infections -- Varicella-zoster Virus Infections -- Viral Hepatitis : A, B, C, D, E, And Newer Hepatitis Agents -- Viral Infections Of The Central Nervous System -- Wounds, Abscesses, And Other Infections Caused By Anaerobic Bacteria -- Diagnosis Of Acute Exanthematous Diseases -- Appendix A. Antimicrobial Drugs -- Appendix B. Recommended Childhood And Adolescent Immunization Schedule -- Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (sars). Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Mode Of Access: World Wide Web. Covers childhood infections, with direct and to-the-point options for their management and treatment. This book contains clinical descriptions of the major childhood exanthems. It provides helpful tables, diagrams, charts, photographs, color plates, and cross-referencing between chapters to help associate symptoms and speed diagnosis.