Main description:

This book is a comprehensive guide to the diagnosis and management of commonly encountered infectious diseases in children.

Divided into 25 sections, each chapter covers a different condition with emphasis on assessment and treatment.

Each topic begins with a clinical case followed by step by step instruction on history taking, examination and investigation, diagnosis, and management. Key points of the topic are summarised to assist learning.

The thorough text is further enhanced by clinical photographs, illustrations and tables.

Key points

Comprehensive guide to diagnosis and management of commonly encountered infectious diseases in children
Presented as selection of clinical cases with step by step guidance on treatment
Emphasis on assessment and therapeutic options
Highly illustrated with clinical photographs, diagrams and tables

Contents:

An infant with deep jaundice and acholic stools
A child with fever for 3 months
Child with unusual infections
Adolescent immunization
An infant with cataract and positive IgM rubella
A child with prolonged diarrhea
An infant with microcephaly with recurrent seizures
Neurocysticercosis in children
A child with recurrent or non-resolving pneumonia
A case of recurrent jaundice
Approach to a child having fever with coma
General management of a child with coma
A child with recurrent fever
Fever with positive tuberculin skin test
Fever beyond one week
Case based scenarios in rickettsial infection
Case scenarios on rational antibiotic usage
Approach to a case of matted lymphadenopathy
A child with UTI
Paediatric septic shock
Typhoid Fever with Jaundice
Children with pyrexia and unilateral pleural effusion
Prolonged and confusing fevers in children
Fever with splenomegaly
A child with skin tuberculosis