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Cecelia Hutto
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Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, University of Alabama School of Medicine, Birmingham
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Table of contents (26 chapters)
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Diagnosis of Specific Infections
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- Charles Wood, Charles D. Mitchell
Pages 111-121
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- David Berman, Gwendolyn B. Scott
Pages 157-168
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- Ravi Jhaveri, Yvonne Bryson
Pages 169-179
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- Enid J. GarcÃa-Rivera, José G. Rigau-Pérez
Pages 187-197
About this book
A concise clinical reference that facilitates the diagnosis of intrauterine and perinatally acquired infections was the goal in creating the Congenital and Perinatal Infections: A Concise Guide to Diagnosis. Information about the natural history, m- agement, and outcome of these infections is well detailed in many other sources and so has not been included. Rather, the focus of the book is diagnosis. The initial chapters provide general information about serological and nonserological assays that are used for the diagnosis of infections, and a chapter about the placenta includes details about histopathological findings that can be helpful with the diagnosis of congenital inf- tions. The remainder of the book is devoted to the diagnosis of specific congenital and/ or perinatal infections. As illustrated in the chapters about specific infections, the approach to diagnosis of a congenital or perinatally acquired infection in the neonate begins, when possible, with consideration and diagnosis of infection in the pregnant woman, knowledge of how the infection is transmitted, and the risk of that infection for the woman and her fetus or neonate. The possibility of congenital or perinatal infection in neonates is usually considered because of the diagnosis of, or concern about a s- cific infection in, a mother during pregnancy that can be transmitted to the neonate or because of clinical findings in the neonate at birth that suggest an infectious cause.
Reviews
"...an initial, 'concise guide' for seasoned clinicians, as well as for those in training." - Clinical Infectious Diseases
Editors and Affiliations
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Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, University of Alabama School of Medicine, Birmingham
Cecelia Hutto
