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Clinical Approach to Infection in the Compromised Host

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  • © 2002

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Editors:
  1. Robert H. Rubin

    1. Division of Infectious Disease, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston
      Center for Experimental Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Harvard University-Massachusetts Institute of Technology Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Cambridge

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  2. Lowell S. Young

    1. Kuzell Institute for Arthritis and Infectious Diseases Chief of the Division on Infectious Diseases, Pacific California Medical Center, San Francisco

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  3. Ralph Furth
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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
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  2. Introduction

    • Robert H. Rubin, Lowell S. Young
    Pages 1-4

  3. Defects in Host Defense Mechanisms

    • Jos W. M. van der Meer, Bart Jan Kullberg
    Pages 5-47

  4. Mucocutaneous Infections in the Immunocompromised Host

    • Richard Allen Johnson, Arthur Sober
    Pages 49-110

  5. Clinical Approach to the Compromised Host with Fever and Pulmonary Infiltrates

    • Robert H. Rubin, Reginald Greene Chest
    Pages 111-162

  6. Central Nervous System Infection in the Immunocompromised Host

    • Allan R. Tunkel, W. Michael Scheld
    Pages 163-214

  7. Fungal Infections in the Immunocompromised Host

    • L. Joseph Wheat, Mitchell Goldman, George A. Sarosi
    Pages 215-247

  8. Mycobacterial and Nocardial Diseases in the Compromised Host

    • Lowell S. Young, Robert H. Rubin
    Pages 249-264

  9. Pneumocystis carinii and Parasitic Infections in the Immunocompromised Host

    • Jay Alan Fishman
    Pages 265-334

  10. Viral Hepatitis in the Compromised Host

    • Peter Rosenberg M., Jules L. Dienstag
    Pages 335-360

  11. The Herpesviruses

    • Paul D. Griffiths
    Pages 361-403

  12. Morbidity in Compromised Patients Related to Viruses Other than Herpes Group and Hepatitis Viruses

    • Robert T. Schooley
    Pages 405-419

  13. Pathogenesis and Clinical Manifestations of HIV-1 Infection

    • Robert T. Schooley, Constance A. Benson
    Pages 421-440

  14. Infectious Complications in Children with Cancer and Children with Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection

    • Sarah W. Alexander, Brigitta U. Mueller, Philip A. Pizzo
    Pages 441-464

  15. Infections Complicating Congenital Immunodeficiency Syndromes

    • John C. Christenson, Harry R. Hill
    Pages 465-496

  16. Management of Infections in Leukemia and Lymphoma

    • Lowell S. Young
    Pages 497-526

  17. Infection in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation

    • Michael Boeckh, Kieren A. Marr
    Pages 527-571

  18. Infection in the Organ Transplant Recipient

    • Robert H. Rubin
    Pages 573-679

  19. Surgical Aspects of Infection in the Compromised Host

    • A. Benedict Cosimi
    Pages 681-706

  20. Back Matter

    Pages 707-719
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About this book

At the beginning of the new millennium, it is opportune to raveling of the molecular pathways of impaired host - review what has been accomplished in the field of infec- fense mechanisms and the characterization of the genetic tious diseases during the last decades of the previous mutations involved, with the prospect of novel strategies century. The paradigm of the immunocompromised host for therapeutic interventions and possible corrective gene has taught much about the pathophysiology of infectious therapy. In this foreword, I will take a helicopter view of diseases, particularly with regard to immunological as- the various aspects of host defense mechanisms with pects of host defense. In the beginning, Robert Good special emphasis on genetic factors, because of their re- called immunodeficiency syndromes “experiments of na- vance for the course and outcome of infections. ture. ” In the 1960s and subsequent decades, the clinical During life, there exist phases of age-related c- and immunological aspects of immune deficiencies were promised immune functions. After birth there is a phys- studied and adequate treatment attempted. A reflection of logical immune deficiency because the production of an- these developments were the three successful meetings on bodies commences slowly upon contact of the neonate these topics in Veldhoven, The Netherlands (1980), Stir- with microorganisms and upon vaccination.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Division of Infectious Disease, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston

    Robert H. Rubin

  • Center for Experimental Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Harvard University-Massachusetts Institute of Technology Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Cambridge

    Robert H. Rubin

  • Kuzell Institute for Arthritis and Infectious Diseases Chief of the Division on Infectious Diseases, Pacific California Medical Center, San Francisco

    Lowell S. Young

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Clinical Approach to Infection in the Compromised Host

  • Editors: Robert H. Rubin, Lowell S. Young, Ralph Furth

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b111257

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2002

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-306-47527-6Published: 08 May 2007

  • Edition Number: 4

  • Number of Pages: XXVII, 734

  • Number of Illustrations: 123 b/w illustrations, 37 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Infectious Diseases, Public Health, Medical Microbiology, Immunology, Microbiology

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