Malcolm D. Richardson, David W. Warnock

Fungal Infection (eBook, ePUB)

Diagnosis and Management

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Fungal Infection: Diagnosis and Management, 4th Edition is a concise and up-to-date guide to the clinical manifestations, laboratory diagnosis and management of superficial, subcutaneous and systemic fungal infections. This highly acclaimed book has been extensively revised and updated throughout to ensure all drug and dosage recommendations are accurate and in agreement with current guidelines. A new chapter on infections caused by Pneumocystis jirovecii has been added. The book has been designed to enable rapid information retrieval and to help clinicians make informed decisions about diagnosis and patient management. Each chapter concludes with a list of recent key publications which have been carefully selected to facilitate efficient access to further information on specific aspects of fungal infections. Clinical microbiologists, infectious disease specialists, as well as dermatologists, hematologists and oncologists, can depend on this contemporary text for authoritative information and the background necessary to understand fungal infections.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444361001
• Artikelnr.: 38308867

Autorenporträt

Malcolm D. Richardson - University Hospital of South Manchester and Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, University of Manchester David W. Warnock - National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the fourth edition xxvi
Preface to the first edition xxviii
Acknowledgements xxix
1 Introduction 1
2 Laboratory diagnosis of fungal infection 12
3 Antifungal drugs 32
4 Dermatophytosis 91
5 Superficial candidosis 121
6 Other cutaneous fungal infections 138
7 Mould infections of nails 151
8 Keratomycosis 156
9 Otomycosis 162
10 Aspergillosis 166
11 Invasive candidosis 201
12 Cryptococcosis 236
13 Mucormycosis 253
14 Pneumocystosis 264
15 Blastomycosis 277
16 Coccidioidomycosis 288
17 Histoplasmosis 304
18 Paracoccidioidomycosis 322
19 Chromoblastomycosis 332
20 Entomophthoromycosis 338
21 Mycetoma 344
22 Sporotrichosis 352
23 Hyalohyphomycosis 362
24 Penicillium marneffei infection 376
25 Phaeohyphomycosis 383
26 Other invasive yeast infections 396
27 Unusual fungal and pseudofungal infections 405
Select bibliography 419
Index 421