Infectious Diseases

Infectious Diseases
ISBN-10
1483192849
ISBN-13
9781483192840
Series
Infectious Diseases
Category
Health & Fitness
Pages
414
Language
English
Published
2013-10-22
Publisher
Butterworth-Heinemann
Authors
A. Melvin Ramsay, Ronald T. D. Emond

Description

Infectious Diseases, Second Edition furnishes the basic facts regarding the common infections encountered in the British Isles. The infectious diseases covered in this edition include varicella and herpes zoster, smallpox, tetanus, measles, mumps, influenza, and acute respiratory disease. The poliomyelitis, Stevens-Johnson syndrome, malaria, tuberculosis, cytomegalic inclusion disease, and rabies are also discussed. This book likewise deliberates the host-parasite relationship, control of infection in hospitals, sterilization and disinfection, pyrexia of undetermined origin (PUO), and public health law. This publication is valuable not only to clinicians but also to epidemiologists, microbiologists and community physicians whose work is connected with the many problems in the field of acute medicine.

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