eBook, ePUB

Emerging Infectious Diseases (eBook, ePUB)

Clinical Case Studies

Redaktion: Ergonul, Onder; Madoff, Lawrence; Akova, Murat; Can, Fusun

Beschreibung

More than 30 newly emerged microorganisms and related diseases have been discovered in the past 20 years. Since these infections are so new, even infectious diseases experts and clinical microbiologists need more information. This book covers recently emerged infectious diseases based on real cases and provides comprehensive information including different aspects of the infections. Written in a 'teaching' style, this book is of interest to every medical specialist and student. - Includes more than 35 emerging infection cases based on the following criteria:newly emerged or re-emergedrecently acquired significance in clinical practicerecently radically changed in case management - Offers a balanced synthesis of basic and clinical sciences for each individual case, presenting clinical courses of the cases in parallel with the pathogenesis and detailed microbiological information for each infection - Describes the prevalence and incidence of the global issues and current therapeutic approaches - Presents the measures for infection control

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Autor

Onder Ergonul, MD, MPH has been a professor of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology at Koç University, School of Medicine since 2011. He graduated from Hacettepe University School of Medicine in 1989 and completed his residency in 1996 in the Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology department of Ankara University in Ankara, Turkey. He received his Master of Public Health degree from Harvard University School of Public Health in 2003. In 2000-2002, he worked as a research fellow in the Clinical Epidemiology division of the Infectious Diseases Department at the University of Utah, School of Medicine, USA. He is the editor of a book on Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (2007, Springer). He received the Public Health Scientific award of Turkish Medical Association in 2007. He has been the president of the Turkish Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases since 2013. He has been the associate editor of Clinical Microbiology and Infection, official journal of

the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases since 2013. He was elected as the member of Science Academy of Turkey in 2013.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
• Seitenzahl: 420
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780124201095
• Artikelnr.: 41044419

Rezensionen

"...an easy-to-use, extraordinarily informative text that belongs on every clinician's shelf.it highlights areas where there are gaps in our knowledge...an apropos read for any clinician who carries a pager." --Clinical Infectious Diseases"...a comprehensive review of both new and old infectious diseases, primarily endemic diseases that occur in specific geographic areas of the world...a reference that should be readily available in medical libraries throughout the world. Rating: 78 - 3 Stars" --Doody's.com, 2015