Infectious Diseases in the Female Patient

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Bacterial Infection and Immunity

   • Patrick Schlievert

   Pages 1-15

3. Microflora of the Female Genital Tract

   • Christiane E. Stahl, Gale B. Hill

   Pages 16-42

4. Viral Infection and Immunity

   • Nelson B. Isada, John H. Grossman

   Pages 43-57

5. The Compromised Host

   • Charles M. Helms, William M. Nauseef

   Pages 58-71

6. Antimicrobial Therapy and Bacterial Resistance

   • John L. Ho, Michael Barza

   Pages 72-105

7. Active Immunization in Pregnancy

   • Michael W. Varner

   Pages 106-114

8. Work-up of the Febrile Patient

   • Shari Thomas, Richard Neil Greenberg

   Pages 115-127

9. Viral Infections of the Female Genital Tract

   • David A. Baker

   Pages 128-140

10. Intrauterine Bacterial Infections

    • Bryan Larsen

    Pages 141-162

11. Lower Genital Tract Infections

    • David A. Eschenbach

    Pages 163-186

12. Upper Genital Tract Infections

    • Daniel V. Landers, Richard L. Sweet

    Pages 187-207

13. Urinary Tract Infections

    • Roger R. Lenke, Walter E. Stamm

    Pages 208-220

14. Pelvic Surgery—Infectious Complications

    • David Charles

    Pages 221-242

15. Antibiotic Prophylaxis

    • Sebastian Faro

    Pages 243-250

16. Back Matter

    Pages 251-264

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In obstetrics and gynecology, as in other medical disciplines, great satisfaction comes from doing, but a greater satisfaction comes from knowing. The desire to know raises clinical practice to its highest level. This principle guided us in determining the objectives for this volume. Several standard textbooks of obstetrics and gynecology include information about infectious problems. Infectious Diseases in the Female Patient is unique in that it emphasizes primarily the basic science as­ pects of infections in obstetrics and gynecology. Although providing a practitioner's handbook was not our goal, the reader nevertheless will find discussions of the management of infections in the female pa­ tient. The continued growth of knowledge about infectious disease en­ countered in obstetrics and gynecology has come from many sources: bacteriology, virology, genetics, immunology, biochemistry, physiol­ ogy, and pharmacology. Insights from all these disciplines contribute to the conceptual framework of this volume. Many of the authors who contributed to this text are leaders in their respective areas of research and bring to the book a diversity of ex­ pertise and experience. Controversial issues are developed in a bal­ anced fashion, and, in most cases, opposing views are discussed. Since medical texts usually are read piece-meal rather than cover to cover, we have allowed some overlap between chapters. The slight degree of redundancy allows each chapter to stand on its own, so that the reader may obtain the necessary information from a single chapter.

• Patient
• antibiotics
• antimicrobial
• antimicrobial therapy
• bacteria
• bacterial infection
• bacterial infections
• bacteriology
• infection
• infections
• infectious
• infectious disease
• infectious diseases
• viral infection

• Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Microbiology, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, USA

  Rudolph P. Galask

• Department of Microbiology, and Obstetrics and Gynecology, Marshall University School of Medicine, Huntington, USA

  Bryan Larsen

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