Childhood respiratory infections
By: scientific editor, Rosalind L. Smyth
Series: British medical bulletin -- v. 61
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
Subjects: Child; Infant; Respiratory Tract Infections; Respiratory infections in children; Respiratory infections; Respiratory Tract Diseases
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pulmonary defences to acute respiratory infection / Rosemary J. Boyton and Peter J. Openshaw; title: The pathogenesis of respiratory syncytial virus disease in childhood / Paul S. McNamara and Rosalind L. Smyth; title: Viruses in asthma / Simon D. Message and Sebastian L. Johnston; title: Macrophage defences against respiratory tract infections / S. B. Gordon and R. C. Read; title: Capsulate bacteria and the lung / Jim Buttery and E. Richard Moxon; title: Persistent and aggressive bacteria in the lungs of cystic fibrosis children / C. Anthony Hart and Craig Winstanley; title: Recent advances in the rapid diagnosis of respiratory tract infection / Steven Myint; title: Assessment of the child with recurrent chest infections / Jon Couriel; title: HIV disease and respiratory infection in children / Stephen M. Graham and Diana M. Gibb; title: Respiratory infections following haemopoietic stem cell transplantation in children / Paul Veys and Catherine Owens; title: Pneumocystis carinii / Ann E. Wakefield; title: The management of croup / Julie C. Brown; title: Radiological perspectives in empyema / Susan King and Anne Thomson; title: Acute upper airway infections / J. V. West; title: Treatment of infections due to resistant organisms / P. T. Heath and A. Breathnach; title: Pneumonia due to viral and atypical organisms and their sequelae / Alan Smyth; title: Application of computed tomography in childhood respiratory infections / S. J. Copley.