Medical microbiology for the new curriculum : a case-based approach / / Roberta B. Carey, Mindy G. Schuster, Karin L. McGowan

• Autore: Carey Roberta B
• Pubblicazione: Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley-Liss, c2008
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xix, 289 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), color map
• Disciplina: 616.9/041
• Soggetto topico: Medical microbiology; Syndromes; Communicable diseases; Communicable Diseases; Communicable Diseases - microbiology; Syndrome
• Soggetto genere / forma: Case Reports.
• Altri autori: McGowanKarin L SchusterMindy Gail
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Case one : boy with acute pharyngitis -- Case two : student with dysuria -- Case three : boy with vomiting and diarrhea after a school picnic -- Case four : chronic diarrhea in a traveler -- Case five : boy with skin lesions -- Case six : student with a skin lesion following a trip to India -- Case seven : man with a surgical wound after a prosthetic hip placement -- Case eight : boy with fever and right leg pain following a canoe accident -- Case nine : woman with acute abdominal pain and cervical discharge -- Case ten : woman with acute fever and productive cough -- Case eleven : nursing home resident with fever, cough, and myalgias -- Case twelve : baby with fever, rhinitis and bronchiolitis -- Case thirteen : woman with fever, cough, and weight loss -- Case fourteen : student with chronic fever, dry cough and pneumonia -- Case fifteen : bone marrow transplant recipient with nodular pneumonia -- Case sixteen : boy with acute fever, headache, and confusion -- Case seventeen : woman with lymphocytic meningitis -- Case eighteen : neonate with fever and vesicular rash -- Case nineteen : renal transplant recipient with chronic meningitis -- Case twenty : man with acute fever and periumbilical pain -- Case twenty one : man with two weeks of fever and a systolic murmur -- Case twenty two : young man with fatigue and an abnormal liver test -- Case twenty three : fever of unknown origin in a traveler -- Case twenty four : student with fever, lymphadenopathy and hepatosplenomegaly.
• Sommario/riassunto: Encompassing twenty-four clinically important and frequently encountered infectious diseases, the text provides all the necessary background and the most up-to-date treatment of the microbes that cause diseases in humans. Each fully illustrated case study is introduced with a patient history, differential diagnosis, clinical clues, laboratory data, pathogenesis, treatment, and prevention. Presented as unknowns, the cases challenge readers to create a differential diagnosis just as they would in practice, including noninfectious causes that could present similar clinical findings.; Medical Microbiology for the New Curriculum: A Case-Based Approach encompasses twenty-three cases of the most clinically important and frequently encountered infectious diseases and the organisms that cause them. This text integrates basic m.
• Titolo autorizzato: Medical microbiology for the new curriculum
• ISBN: 1-281-22149-X; 9786611221492; 0-470-17429-3; 0-470-17428-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910813259903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: THEi Wiley ebooks.