Main description:

This book provides a comprehensive overview of diagnostic imaging in infectious diseases. It starts with a general review of infection diseases, including their classification, characteristics and epidemiology. In separate chapters, the authors then introduce the radionuclide imaging of 50 kinds of infectious diseases. Volume 1 covers 21 viral infections. Volume 2 has 29 chapters discussing 24 bacterial infections and 5 parasitic infections. Each disease is clearly illustrated using cases combined with high-quality computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The book provides a valuable reference source for radiologists and doctors working in the area of infectious diseases.

Contents:

Anthrax.- Bacillary and amebic dysentery.- Brucellosis.- Cat Scratch Disease.- Chlamydia pneumoniae pneumonia.- Cholera.- Diphtheria.- Epidemic and endemic typhus.- Epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis.- Gonorrhea .- Human streptococcus suis infection.- Legionnaires Disease.- Leprosy.- Leptospirosis.- Lyme disease.- Neonatal tetanus.- Other Infectious Diarrhea.- Pertussis.- Plague.- Psittacosis.- Pulmonary Tuberculosis.- Scarlet Fever.- Syphilis.- Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fever.- Filariasis.- Hydatidosis.- Kala-azar.- Schistosomiasis.- Malaria.