Krugman's Infectious Diseases of Children

Krugman's Infectious Diseases of Children by Anne Gershon. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780323017565.

This standard text offers comprehensive, yet concise coverage of childhood infections, with direct and to-the-point options for their management and treatment. In this 11th Edition, classic clinical descriptions of the major childhood exanthems and other infections are combined with new descriptions of emerging and re-emerging international infections such as malaria and dengue. The book provides helpful tables, diagrams, charts, photographs, color plates as well as cross-referencing between chapters to help associate symptoms and speed diagnosis. Reflects the most recent developments in the field with... New chapters on fungal infections; eye infections, cholera; dengue and dengue hemorrhagic fever; malaria, and helminthic infections An updated smallpox/vaccinia chapter with information on bioterrorism and the initiation of smallpox vaccination programs An expanded discussion of pseudomonas infections in the cystic fibrosis chapter Discussions of the newer hepatitis viruses