Overview
- Comprehensive, up to date overview
- Practical, easy to read
- One stop source for evidence-based guidelines
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Current Clinical Practice (CCP)
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Gastrointestinal Infections
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Sexually Transmitted Diseases
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Skin, Bone, and Joint Infection
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Reviews
From the reviews:
"This well written and comprehensive book reviews evidence-based approaches to the most common and important infectious illnesses encountered by primary care physicians. … Medical students and primary care residents will find this a useful, quick review. Experienced practitioners may use some of the algorithms and treatment tables as a rapid point of care reference. … The content is accurate and up to date, with useful figures summarizing treatment options and decision algorithms. The index is easy to use." (Michael Ohl, Doody’s Review Service, September, 2008)
"This well-written and well-organized book offers a practical tool for the primary care physician caring for patients with common infectious diseases … . this timely book should be embraced by primary care clinicians as a key reference text for quick clinical decision-making. … It provides valuable discussion of specific diagnostic and treatment issues … and some infectious disease physicians also may find this book suitable as a quick reference guide for their daily clinical practice, given the updated information and easy-to-use format." (Carlos Franco-Paredes, Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 300 (13), October, 2008)
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Essential Infectious Disease Topics for Primary Care
Editors: Neil S. Skolnik, Ross H. Albert
Series Title: Current Clinical Practice
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60327-034-2
Publisher: Humana Totowa, NJ
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Humana Press 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-58829-520-0Published: 07 April 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-61737-616-0Published: 19 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-60327-034-2Published: 26 June 2008
Series ISSN: 2364-1150
Series E-ISSN: 2364-1169
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 312
Number of Illustrations: 21 b/w illustrations
Topics: Infectious Diseases, Primary Care Medicine, General Practice / Family Medicine