Title: Clinical approach to infection in the compromised host /
Authors: Rubin, Robert H., 1941-; Young, Lowell S.
Publisher: Plenum Medical Book Co.,
Year: 1994
Subjects: Communicable diseases; Opportunistic infections.; Immunological deficiency syndromes Complications.; Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes complications; Immunocompromised Host immunology; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome immunology
Contents: Introduction / Lowell S. Young, Robert H. Rubin -- Epidemiology and prevention of infection in the compromised host / James C. Wade -- Defects in host defense mechanisms / Jos W.M. Van Der Meer -- Fever and septicemia / Lowell S. Young -- Dermatologic manifestations of infection in the compromised host / Elaine T. Kaye [and others] -- Clinical approach to the compromised host with fever and pulmonary infiltrates / Robert H. Rubin, Reginald Green -- Central nervous system infection in the immunocompromised host / Allan R. Tunkel, W. Michael Scheld -- Fungal infections in the immunocompromised host / L. Joseph Wheat -- Mycobacteriosis and nocardiosis in the immunocompromised host / Thomas Barber, Alan M. Sugar -- Pneumocystis carinii and parasitic infections in the immunocompromised host / Jay Alan Fishman -- Legionellosis in the compromised host / Neil M. Ampel, Edward J. Wing -- Viral hepatitis in the compromised host / Jules L. Dienstag, William N. Katkov -- Herpes group virus infections in the compromised host / Martin S. Hirsch.