Main description:

Provides a detailed, evidence-based overview of a range of topics necessary for understanding infectious diseases. It is primarily aimed to offer important background on regional disease epidemiology, pathogenesis, social, and ethical aspects of disease control through the use of specific antimicrobial agents and preventive vaccines.

Different aspects of infectious disease are addressed and each chapter begins with an annotation of key terms, and definitions and finishes with a concrete summary, using bullet points. The excellent tables and illustrative figures in each chapter are presented with useful proactive diagnostic essentials including nonculture-based molecular advances for early diagnosis and appropriate management. Thirty different chapters are dealt from subject matters on antibiotic uses, vaccine prevention strategies for all ages, and disease transmission control in hospital care environments.

The second edition provides wealth of timely information and up-to-date overview of the commonly encountering infectious diseases in the clinical practice.
Includes material on the most important newly emerging and re-emerging diseases.
Each chapter is amply illustrated with photographs and figures provide unparalleled visual guidance.
Contains reference tables with differential diagnoses, laboratory diagnoses and treatment aspects.
Valuable appendices provide cross reference information for each of the bacterial, viral, fungal, and parasitic diseases.

Contents:

1. Infectious Disease subspecialty Role in Indian Health Care settings

2. Antibiotic strategies in the Era of Multidrug Resistance

3. Febrile Illnesses and Pictorial Skin Rashes

4. Lingering Fever beyond Malaria in Indian Healthcare settings

5. Mosquito-borne Malarial and Viral Diseases

6. Tick-borne Diseases (Bacterial and viral causes)

7. Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers (VHFs)

8. Central Nervous System (CNS) Infections

9. Encephalitis (Infectious and Immune Mediated)

10. Skin and Soft Tissue Infections (SSTI) in Adults/Children

11. Pricks, Bites and Scratches [Precaution and Preventions]

12. Infectious Disese of the Head and Neck

13. Pulmonary Infections - Adults and Childhood

14. Tuberculosis and NTM infections including M. Leprae (Adults and Childhood)

15. Infective Endocarditis and Pacemaker Infections

16. Infectious Diarrhea

17. Urinary Tract Infections (UTI's) in childhood and adults

18. Bone & Joint Infections

19. Clinical Virology -Overview

20. Systemic Fungal Diseases and antifungal Drugs

21. Parasitic Diseases and Drugs

22. Febrile neutropenia (Adults and Pediatrics Perspective)

23. Infections in Transplant Recipients

24. Obstetrical Infections [Pregnant Women, Fetus and Newborn

25. ID's in Dentistry and Dental health care settings

26. Recurrent Infections due to Immune Deficiencies

27. Microbiome

28. Hospital Acquired Infections (HAIs) & Health care Associated Infections (HcAIs)

29. Therapeutic Antibodies for Infectious Diseases

30. Vaccinology

Index