Main description:

Infectious diseases as a specialty suffers from many unique challenges stemming from lower salaries compared to other medical specialties and difficulty keeping the younger demographic within the field. With emerging infections, new diagnostic and research tools, and changing migration patterns, these problems are amplified; infectious disease specialists are in higher demand than ever with fewer and fewer specialists available to support patients and colleagues outside of the field. To meet these increasing challenges, it is vital for the workforce of the future to have the best training possible. This book aims to provide this support.

As trainees, all physicians face clinical infectious disease scenarios on a daily basis. They receive basic training in common infections, giving them the tools needed for initial diagnostic studies and empiric treatment. This approach, however, still leaves them struggling with nuances of treating common infections, infections that masquerade as other diseases, rare infection, advanced diagnostics, complicating medical conditions, and a wide range of medical complexities. Important clinical microbiology details and host susceptibility risks will be highlighted when discussing uncommon infections.

Each chapter begins by defining a distinct clinical infectious disease problem and the most common cause(s). The next section of each chapter identifies the key questions to consider, including other possible pathogens, medical history, alternate microbiologic diagnoses, instances of unexpected result. This book is the only academic text designed specifically to meet this challenge by targeting learners at all levels. To do this, the text incorporate 30-40 common clinical infectious disease scenarios in both adult and pediatric hosts. It includes easy-to-access "tips and tricks" for when to look further or consider possibilities that are unusual that is useful for someone who is new to the information or has limited experience within infectious diseases. The text heavily features teaching and learning tools, including call out boxes that prioritizes infectious etiologies, host risk factors, important microbiologic clues, and important clinical history clues. The text also includes review questions and quiz-like challenges to reinforce the concepts.

Written by experts in the field Clinical Infectious Diseases is the most cutting-edge academic resource for all medical students, fellows, residents, and trainees, including infectious disease specialists in both adult and pediatric care, internal medicine specialists, and hospitalists.

Contents:

Part I: Infections of the Skin and Lymph Nodes

1 Bacterial Infections of the Skin and Skin Structures

Jennifer A. Nead, MD

2 Febrile Exanthems of Childhood

Steven D. Blatt and Daniel Blatt

3 Acute and Chronic Lymphadenitis

Asalim Thabet, Rhonda Philopena, and Joseph Domachowske

Part II: Infections of the Respiratory Tract

4 Otitis, Sinusitis, and Mastoiditis

Winter S. Berry

5 Pharyngitis and Pharyngeal Space Infections

Susannah Orzell and Amar Suryadevara

6 Pertussis and Pertussis Syndrome

Tina Q. Tan

7 Laryngitis, Tracheitis, Epiglottitis and Bronchiolitis

Debra Tristram

8 Atypical Pneumonia

Elizabeth K. Nelsen

9: Fungal Pneumonia

Thomas S. Murray, Jennifer Ellis Girotto, Nicholas J. Bennett

Part III: Infections of the Heart
10 Infective Endocarditis

Laura E. Norton and Mary Anne Jackson

11 Infectious Myocarditis

Mathew Egan

12 Acute Rheumatic Fever

Ambika Eranki

Part IV: Infections of the Liver and Intestinal Tract

13 Infectious Hepatitis

Prateek D. Wali and Manika Suryadevara

14 Liver Abscess

Aakriti Pandita, Waleed Javaid, and Tasaduq Fazili

15 Infectious Gastroenteritis

Penelope H. Dennehy

Part V: Infections of the Urogenital Tract

16 Urinary Tract Infections

Matthew A. Mittiga,

17 Human Papillomavirus Infection

Manika Suryadevara

18 Prostatitis, Epididymitis, and Orchitis: Acute Scrotal Pain

Karen L. Teelin, Tara M. Babu, and Marguerite A. Urban

19 Vaginitis, Mucopurulent Cervicitis, and Pelvic Inflammatory Disease: Vaginal Discharge

Allison H. Eliscu, Zachary Jacobs, and Gale R. Burstein

20 Congenital and Perinatal Infections

Mayssa Abuali and Joseph Domachowske

Part VI: Infections of the Central Nervous System

21 Myelitis and Acute Flaccid Paralysis

Jana Shaw

22 Aseptic Meningitis

Brian D. W. Chow

23 Bacterial Meningitis

Felicia Scaggs Huang, Rebecca C. Brady, and Joel Mortensen

24 Parameningeal Infections

Stephen Barone

25 Meningoencephalitis

Manika Suryadevara

Part VII: Toxin-Mediated Diseases, Bloodstream Infections and Their Complications

26 Tetanus, Diphtheria and Botulism

Roberto Parulan Santos and Mary George

27 Toxic Shock Syndrome

Tsoline Kojaoghlanian

28 Bacteremia and Bacterial Sepsis

Richard Cantor and Kuldip Sunny Kainth

29 Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infections (CLABSI)

Kengo Inagaki and Rana E. El Feghaly

30 Osteomyelitis and Septic Arthritis

Angela L. Myers

31 Candidiasis

Ankhi Dutta

32 Lyme Disease

Nicholas J. Bennett

33 Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and Other Rickettsioses

Asif Noor, Amy B. Triche, and Leonard R. Krilov

34 Malaria

Andrea Shaw and Joseph Domachowske

35 Yellow Fever and Dengue

Zachary A. Jones and Stephen J. Thomas

36 Chagas Disease: South American Trypanosomiasis

Joseph F. Toth III and Joseph Domachowske

37 Leptospirosis

Daniel Lichtenstein and Joseph Domachowske

38 Leprosy

Megan A. Harris and Joseph Domachowske

39 Neurocysticercosis

Paris Hantzidiamantis and Joseph Domachowske

Part IX: Human Immune Deficiency Virus

40 Human Immune Deficiency Virus I: History, Epidemiology, Transmission and Pathogenesis

Bradford Becken III, Ami Multani, Simi Padival, and Coleen K. Cunningham

41 Human Immune Deficiency Virus II: Clinical Presentation, Opportunistic Infections, Treatment and Prevention

Ami Multani, Bradford Becken III, and Simi Padival

Part X: Essentials of Diagnostic Microbiology

42 Essentials of Diagnostic Microbiology

Scott W. Riddell and Soma Sanyal