Consultations in Infectious Disease: A Case Based Approach to Diagnosis and Management

by Daniel Caplivski and W. Michael Scheld

Book Overview

Infectious diseases have plagued man throughout history. In the era of modern medicine antibiotics and vaccines brought the hope of liberation from the great scourges of smallpox, polio, and tuberculosis. Yet, in the ensuing decades as we hoped to close the book on infectious diseases, we have instead been confronted by wave upon wave of new assailants. AIDS, SARS, pandemic influenza, and multi-drug resistant bacteria demonstrated how our technological...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019973500X
• ISBN13: 9780199735006
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 7.9"