Softcover, 192 pages
261 x 194 mm page size
282 colour photographs and drawings
ISBN: 978-1-84076-027-9
Price £22.50
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J.
Keith Struthers, BSc (Hons), MSc, Dphil, MBChB, FRCPath
Consultant Medical Microbiologist, Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital,
Coventry, UK.
Roger P. Westran, BSc FIBMS
Senior Biomedical Scientist, Southend Hospital, Essex, UK.
In
this concise, beautifully illustrated book, the authors introduce
the reader to the basic science of medical bacteriology and relate
this to clinical practice. By integrating the text with over 270
full-colour diagrams and selected photomicrographs, the book explains
the essentials of bacterial infection, and it also provides the
basis for logical diagnostic and management strategies, including
the use of antibiotics.
Following introductory chapters on the nature, structure and function
of bacteria, diagnostic methods and antibiotic use, the principles
are then applied to each organ system. Here relevant aspects of
epidemiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, treatment and public health
are covered. There are chapters on infection is a modern society,
including the immuncompromised patient, and infection control in
the hospital and community.
In the context of new problem-based curricula, this book will be
welcomed especially by medical students, trainee physicians and
microbiologists, laboratory biomedical scientists and nurses working
in infection control.
Contents: Preface. Chapter 1. The Structure and Function
of Bacteria, Chapter 2. How Bacteria Cause Disease, Chapter 3. Characterization
of Bacteria from Clinical Specimens, Chapter 4. The Use of Antibiotics,
Chapter 5. Infections of the Blood: Bacteraemia and Endocarditis,
Chapter 6. Bacterial Infections of the Alimentary Canal, Chapter
7. Infections of the Respiratory Tract, Chapter 8. Tuberculosis,
Chapter 9. Infections of the Central Nervous System, Chapter 10.
Infections of the Eye, Chapter 11. Infections of the Urinary Tract,
Chapter 12. Infections of the Genital Systems, Chapter 13. Infections
of the Skin, Soft Tissues, Joints and Bones, Chapter 14. Infections
in a Modern Society, Chapter 15. The Control of Infection in the
Hospital and the Community. Index.
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