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Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases
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This updated and expanded edition now offers 297 chapters that cover the basic principles of diagnosis and management, major clinical syndromes, all important pathogenic microbes and the diseases they cause, plus a number of specialised topics useful to the practitioner.Abstract:
This updated and expanded edition now offers 297 chapters that cover the basic principles of diagnosis and management, major clinical syndromes, all important pathogenic microbes and the diseases they cause, plus a number of specialised topics useful to the practitioner. It contains 24 totally-new chapters, offers a whole section on AIDS with seven chapters and a chapter "Microsporidium Disease", which deals with a new disease just discovered because of AIDS. The text is designed for clinical pathologists, microbiologists, virologists, medical scientists, mycologists, allergists, general practitioners and lecturers of medicine.read more
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Food-related illness and death in the United States.
Paul S. Mead,Laurence Slutsker,Vance Dietz,Linda F. McCaig,Joseph S. Bresee,Craig N. Shapiro,Patricia M. Griffin,Robert V. Tauxe +7 more
TL;DR: Overall, foodborne diseases appear to cause more illnesses but fewer deaths than previously estimated.
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1993 Revised Classification System for HIV Infection and Expanded Surveillance Case Definition for AIDS Among Adolescents and Adults
Kenneth G. Castro,John W. Ward,Laurence Slutsker,James W. Buehler,Harold W. Jaffe,Ruth L. Berkelman,James Curran +6 more
TL;DR: The classification system for HIV infection is revised to emphasize the clinical importance of the CD4+ T-lymphocyte count in the categorization of HIV-related clinical conditions and the AIDS surveillance case definition is expanded.
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Surviving Sepsis Campaign guidelines for management of severe sepsis and septic shock
R. Phillip Dellinger,Jean Carlet,Henry Masur,Herwig Gerlach,Thierry Calandra,Jonathan Cohen,Juan Gea-Banacloche,Didier Keh,John C. Marshall,Margaret M. Parker,Graham Ramsay,Janice L. Zimmerman,Jean Louis Vincent,Mitchell M. Levy +13 more
TL;DR: Evidence-based recommendations can be made regarding many aspects of the acute management of sepsis and septic shock that will hopefully translate into improved outcomes for the critically ill patient.
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Toxoplasma gondii: from animals to humans
TL;DR: Recent epidemiological data on T. gondii, hypotheses on the major routes of transmission to humans in different populations, and preventive measures that may reduce the risk of contracting a primary infection during pregnancy are presented.