With consultation of Dr. Helen Boucher, Drs. Libman and Younsouni have put together an issue that provides current updates on a wide range of topics in tropical medicine. They have enlisted top experts from around the world to offer their expertise on state-of-the-art diagnosis, treatment, and management. The clinical reviews in this issue are devoted to: Tropical Diseases: Definition, Geographic Distribution, Transmission, and Classification; Venomous Bites, Stings, and Poisoning; What’s New in Management in the Management of Malaria; Human African Trypanosomiasis; American Trypanosomiasis; Leishmaniasis – Recent Developments in the Diagnosis and Management; Enteric Infections: New Paradigms for Causality and Key Pathogens; Enteric Infections: New Paradigms for Morbidity; Strongyloides, the Neglected NTD: Current Concepts for Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment; Cysticercosis: State-of the Art Management; Arboviruses and Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers; Laboratory Diagnosis of Tropical Infections; Diagnostics During Public Health Emergencies: Lessons from Ebola and Zika; Antimicrobial Resistance; Migration Medicine in 2018; and Richettsiosis: Practical Update. Readers will come away with the information they need to make clinical decisions with confidence.
This issue’s clinical review articles, written by authoritative and renowned experts in the area would, have broad appeal, from general internists to respiratory specialists.
Tetanus Clostridium tetani, an anaerobic spore-forming bacillus, has a global distribution. Spores of the bacillus are found in animal feces and are ubiquitous in the environment. Tetanus can develop when spores are introduced through ...
The main alternative approach is cerebrospinal diversion via a ventriculoperitoneal shunt accompanied by chronic steroids and/or antiparasitic drugs to decrease the rate of shunt failure. Although there are anecdotes of patients being ...
viii Device-Associated Infections INFECTIOUS DISEASE CLINICS OF NORTH AMERICA FORTHCOMING ISSUES RECENT ISSUES March 2019 Updates in Tropical Medicine Michael Libman and Ce ́dric Yansouni, Editors September 2018 Management of Infections ...
STEP is a free service to allow US citizens and nationals traveling abroad to enroll their trip with the nearest US ... APP or Book Best Web sites CDC www.cdc.gov/travel Excellent resource CDC's “The Yellow Book”—online and in print ...
In collaboration with Consulting Editor, Dr. Helen Boucher, Dr. Paul Edward Sax has put together a state-of the-art issue of the Infectious Disease Clinics of North America devoted to HIV.
Incidence and treatment of hemorrhagic cystitis in children given hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: a survey from the Italian association of pediatric hematology oncology-bone marrow transplantation group.
primary care–based HCV treatment and best practice models for team-based HCV care. ... Cary, North Carolina) and STATA version 15.0 (StataCorp, College Station, Texas) for summary statistics and Pearson chisquare tests.
This volume of the ID Clinics is edited by 3 internationally renowned infectious disease physicians and provides an authoritative and comprehensive treatise on Travel Medicine.
In consultation with Consulting Editor, Dr. Helen Boucher, Dr. Mossad has created an issue that provides a very current look at the prevention of infections in the solid organ transplant patient.