<p>The first textbook of mycology ever to focus on the management of patients with fungal infections, CLINICAL MYCOLOGY represents an expert, authoritative examination of clinical problem-solving approaches to diagnosis and management. It offers specific recommendations for understanding, controlling, and preventing fungal infections based on underlying principles of epidemiology and infection control policy, pathogenesis, immunology, histopathology, and laboratory diagnosis and antifungal therapy. The book also covers etiologic agents of disease, fungal infections in special hosts such as pediatric patients and patients with cancer or HIV, infections of the organ systems, and more. Extensive illustrations, tables, and photographs throughout the book highlight its clinical context and enhance the reader's understanding of the subject.</p>
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<li>Complete and authoritative, yet practical, discussion makes this book an ideal one-stop source for diagnosis, management, and prevention of fungal infections.</li>
<li>Editors and authors are recognized experts in their field, offering consistently high standard-of-care approaches.</li>
<li>Excellent photographs and drawings illustrate specific concepts and conditions.</li>
<li>Tables present summaries of key points to help the reader quickly access information on a subject.</li>
<li>Clear, definitive recommendations for diagnosis and management of fungal infections are outlined and related to clinical practice.</li>
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Clinical Mycology

Science & Math

Pfaller MD, Michael A.

Anaissie MD, Elias J.

McGinnis PhD, Michael R.

Biological Sciences

Churchill/Livingstone

<p>The first book of its kind to focus on the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of patients with fungal infections, this definitive reference returns in a completely revised, full-color new edition. It presents specific recommendations for understanding, controlling, and preventing fungal infections based upon underlying principles of epidemiology and infection control policy, pathogenesis, immunology, histopathology, and laboratory diagnosis and antifungal therapy. More than 560 photographs, illustrations, and tables depict conditions as they appear in real life and equip you to identify clinical manifestations with accuracy. Expanded therapy content helps you implement the most appropriate treatment quickly, and a bonus CD-ROM―featuring all of the images from the text―enables you to enhance your electronic presentations.</p>
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<li>Includes specific recommendations for diagnosing, preventing, and treating fungal infections in various patient populations based upon underlying principles of epidemiology and infection control policy, pathogenesis, immunology, histopathology, and laboratory diagnosis and antifungal therapy. </li>
<li>Covers etiologic agents of disease, fungal infections in special hosts such as pediatric patients and patients with cancer and HIV, infections of specific organ systems, and more, to make you aware of the special considerations involved in certain cases. </li>
<li> Features clinically useful and reader-friendly practical tools―including algorithms, slides, graphs, pictorials, photographs, and radiographs―that better illustrate and communicate essential points, promote efficient use in a variety of clinical and academic settings, and facilitate slide making for lectures and presentations. </li>
<li>Offers a CD-ROM containing all of the book’s images for use in your electronic presentations. </li>
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<li>Offers more clinically relevant images―more than 300 in full color for the first time―to facilitate diagnosis. </li>
<li>Features expanded therapy-related content, including up-to-date treatment strategies and drug selection and dosing guidelines. </li>
<li>Includes several new sections in the chapter on fungal infections in cancer patients that reflect the formidable clinical challenges these infections continue to present. </li>
<li>Presents the work of additional international contributors who have defined many of the key issues in the field, providing more of a global perspective on the best diagnostic and management approaches. </li>
<li>Uses a new, full-color design to enhance readability and ease of access to information.</li>
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Clinical Mycology with CD-ROM

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