Main description:

Challenging Concepts in Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology details over 30 challenging cases from a wide area of infectious diseases, medical microbiology and virology and includes topics ranging from typhoid fever to secondary syphilis.

This case-based learning book ideal for trainees and speciality registrars. Each case is supported by the commentary of a renowned expert in the field, allowing readers to improve their own management of these patients.

As the reader works through each case there are 'Clinical Tips', 'Learning Points' and 'Evidence Base' boxes to enhance the learning process along with the 'Expert Commentary', providing an inside track on how the experts approach challenging cases ranging from secondary syphilis to typhoid fever and vial haemorrhagic fever.

Contents:

1. Pyrexia of unknown origin: the use of PET and PET-CT ; 2. Neurological Complications of Lyme Borreliosis (LB) ; 3. Leptospirosis and its Complications ; 4. Secondary Syphilis ; 5. HIV-Associated Multicentric Castleman's Disease ; 6. HIV: Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission ; 7. HIV: Antiretroviral Treatment and Emergence of Resistance ; 8. HIV: opportunistic infections and immune reconstitution syndrome ; 9. HIV: Cryptococcal Meningitis and Timing of Antiretroviral Treatment ; 10. Candida Infection in the Intensive Care Unit ; 11. Disseminated Aspergillosis after Bone Marrow Transplantation ; 12. Hepatitis B Reactivation in the Immunosuppressed ; 13. Developments in the Treatment of Hepatitis C Virus Infection ; 14. Management of Viral Haemorrhagic Fevers in the UK ; 15. Tropical Liver Abscess: Diagnosis and Management ; 16. Severe Falciparum Malaria: Treatment Options in the UK ; 17. Imported Plasmodium Vivax ; 18. Typhoid Fever: Antibiotic Treatment Choices ; 19. Hospital Acquired Legionella Pneumonia ; 20. Severe Clostridium Difficile Infection (CDI) ; 21. Staphylococcal Prosthetic Joint Infection ; 22. Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) Bacteraemia ; 23. Pneumococcal Meningitis: Antibiotic Options for Resistant Organisms ; 24. Urinary Sepsis: Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci (VRE) ; 25. Disseminated Nocardiosis ; 26. Urinary Sepsis: Extended Spectrum Beta Lactamase Producing (ESBL) E. coli ; 27. Multi-Drug Resistant Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Infection in Cystic Fibrosis ; 28. The Treatment of Mycobacterium Abscessus Lung Disease ; 29. Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis ; 30. Diagnostic and Management Issues in Tuberculous Meningitis ; 31. Treated Pulmonary Tuberculous Complicated by Sarcoidosis