- Discusses basic and clinical aspects of infections and infectious processes and their relationship to rheumatic diseases
- Provides a guide for physicians who use biologic therapy to treat rheumatic diseases in clinical medicine
- Examines the role of the microbiome and microbiota
- Addresses reactive and viral arthritis as well as arthritis due to mycobacteria, fungi, and spirochete
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- About this book
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This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date review of the basic and clinical aspects of infections and infectious processes that trigger or aggravate a variety of autoimmune and inflammatory musculoskeletal disorders. It delivers a timely update on the interactions between infection and rheumatic diseases in order to provide clinicians with the tools they need for proper diagnosis and treatment.
The book is divided into five main sections. The first examines the basic aspects of bacterial infections with a discussion of molecular biology, the microbiome, various types of bacteria that cause infection, and recent advances in biologic therapy. The next section focuses on different forms of viral arthritis including hepatitis arthritis, arthritis associated with alpha viruses, and parvovirus-related arthritis. Subsequent chapters then discuss arthritis caused by mycobacteria, fungi, spirochete, and other miscellaneous arthritides. Following this are various analyzations on reactive arthritis and infection-related rheumatic diseases such as Whipple’s Disease, SAPHO Syndrome, rheumatic fever, and HIV-associated rheumatic manifestations. Finally, the book closes with three chapters on external impacts on infectious diseases such as climate change, vaccinations and systemic lupus erythematosus.
Infections and the Rheumatic Diseases is an essential resource for physicians and related professionals, residents, fellows, graduate students, and nurses in rheumatology, clinical immunology, and internal medicine.
- About the authors
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Luis R. Espinoza, MD
Professor and Chief
Section of Rheumatology
LSU Health Sciences at New Orleans
New Orleans, LA 70112
USA
- Table of contents (40 chapters)
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The Molecular Biology of Chlamydiae as Exemplar of Bacterial Pathogenesis in the Rheumatic Diseases
Pages 3-10
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Microbiome and Microbiota in Rheumatic Disease
Pages 11-19
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Gonococcal and Nongonococcal Bacterial Infections
Pages 21-27
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Septic Arthritis in Children: Clinical Update
Pages 29-40
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Salmonella Arthritis
Pages 41-47
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Table of contents (40 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Infections and the Rheumatic Diseases
- Editors
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- Luis R. Espinoza
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-23311-2
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-23311-2
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-23310-5
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXI, 460
- Number of Illustrations
- 24 b/w illustrations, 73 illustrations in colour
- Topics
