The book has multiple but entirely North American authorship and is of markedly variable quality.
Reviewers tend to gauge a book by searching initially for a favoured topic.
I was dismayed to find only four lines dedicated to Clostridium difficile infection, which include one inaccuracy and one inappropriate reference. How this can be for such a text is perverse and sits uncomfortably alongside eight pages on sexually transmitted diseases. The chapter on vaccination contains a level of detail often lacking elsewhere and is well referenced. By comparison, the chapter on meningitis does not mention conjugate group C meningococcal vaccine and contains errors on recommended therapy for penicillin-resistant pneumococcal infection. Thus, this book is often not superior to current authoritative general texts and cannot be recommended to those with particular interest in infection in the elderly.