Infectious Diseases
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Infectious Diseases

  1. 414 pages
  2. English
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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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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Infectious Diseases
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. LIST OF COLOURED PLATES
  6. FOREWORD
  7. PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION
  8. PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION
  9. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  10. CHAPTER I. THE HOST-PARASITE RELATIONSHIP
  11. CHAPTER II. RASHES
  12. CHAPTER III. HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS INFECTIONS
  13. CHAPTER IV. CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION
  14. CHAPTER V. INFECTIOUS MONONUCLEOSIS
  15. CHAPTER VI. CHICKENPOX (VARICELLA)
  16. CHAPTER VII. SMALLPOX (VARIOLA)
  17. CHAPTER VIII. VACCINIA AND VACCINATION
  18. CHAPTER IX. RUBELLA
  19. CHAPTER X. MEASLES
  20. CHAPTER XI. MUMPS
  21. CHAPTER XII. INFLUENZA
  22. CHAPTER XIII. ACUTE RESPIRATORY DISEASE
  23. CHAPTER XIV. VIRUS INFECTIONS OF THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM
  24. CHAPTER XV. POLIOMYELITIS
  25. CHAPTER XVI. COXSACKIE AND ECHO VIRUS INFECTIONS
  26. CHAPTER XVlI. BENIGN MYALGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS OR EPIDEMIC NEUROMYASTHENIA
  27. CHAPTER XVIII. VIRUS HEPATITIS
  28. CHAPTER XIX. ROSEOLA INFANTUM (EXANTHEM SUBITUM)
  29. CHAPTER XX. BACTERIAL MENINGITIS
  30. CHAPTER XXI. STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS
  31. CHAPTER XXII. STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS
  32. CHAPTER XXIII. DIPHTHERIA
  33. CHAPTER XXIV. TUBERCULOSIS
  34. CHAPTER XXV. TETANUS
  35. CHAPTER XXVI. WHOOPING COUGH (PERTUSSIS)
  36. CHAPTER XXVII. GASTRO-ENTERITIS
  37. CHAPTER XXVIII. BACILLARY DYSENTERY
  38. CHAPTER XXIX. FOOD POISONING
  39. CHAPTER XXX. TYPHOID AND PARATYPHOID FEVER
  40. CHAPTER XXXI. CHOLERA
  41. CHAPTER XXXII BRUCELLOSIS
  42. CHAPTER XXXIII. ANTHRAX
  43. CHAPTER XXXIV. LEPTOSPIROSIS
  44. CHAPTER XXXV. TOXOPLASMOSIS
  45. CHAPTER XXXVI. CAT SCRATCH DISEASE
  46. CHAPTER XXXVII. RABIES
  47. CHAPTER XXXVIII. MALARIA
  48. CHAPTER XXXIX. ACUTE STEVENS-JOHNSON SYNDROME
  49. CHAPTER XL. CHEMOTHERAPY
  50. CHAPTER XLI. IMMUNISATION
  51. CHAPTER XLII. CONTROL OF INFECTION IN HOSPITAL
  52. CHAPTER XLIII. STERILISATION AND DISINFECTION
  53. CHAPTER XLIV. PYREXIA OF UNDETERMINED ORIGIN (PUO)
  54. CHAPTER XLVI. PUBLIC HEALTH LAW
  55. INDEX