Principles and practice of cancer infectious diseases
By: Amar Safdar, editor
Series: Current clinical oncology; Current clinical oncology
Publisher: Humana Pres/Springer
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 591
ISBN-13: 9781607616436; 9781607616443
Subjects: Methods; Cancer; Communicable Disease Control; Virology; Neoplasms; Microbiology; Infection; Complications; Treatment; Therapy; Communicable Diseases
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Infections in patients with cancer : overview / Amar Safdar, Gerald Bodey, and Donald Armstrong; title: Infections in hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients / Georg Maschmeyer and Per Ljungman; title: Infections in patients with hematologic malignancies / Genovefa Papanicolaou and Jayesh Mehta; title: Infections in solid tumor patients / Alison G. Freifeld; title: Infections in patients with hematologic malignancies treated with monoclonal antineoplastic therapy / André Goy and Susan O'Brien; title: Postsurgery infections in cancer patients / Emilio Bouza ... [et. al]; title: Management of infections in critically ill cancer patients / Henry Masur; title: Management of the neutropenic patient with fever / Kenneth V. I. Rolston and Gerald P. Bodey; title: Controversies in empiric therapy of febrile neutropenia / John R. Wingard; title: Catheter-related infections in cancer patients / Iba Al Wohoush, Anne-Marie Chaftari, and Issam Raad; title: Intravascular device-related infections : catheter salvage strategies and prevention of device-related infection / Nasia Safdar and Dennis G. Maki; title: Pneumonia in the cancer patient / Scott E. Evans and Amar Safdar; title: Noninfectious lung infiltrates that may be confused with pneumonia in the cancer patient / Rana Kaplan ... [et. al]; title: Mucosal barrier injury and infections / Nicole M. A. Blijlevens and J. Peter Donnelly; title: Bacterial colonization and host immunity / Coralia N. Mihu, Karen J. Vigil, and Javier A. Adachi; title: Neutropenic enterocolitis and clostridium difficile infections / Amar Safdar ... [et. al]; title: Management of reactivation of hepatitis B and hepatitis C during antineoplastic therapy / Marta Davila and Harrys A. Torres; title: Management of genitourinary tract infections / Amar Safdar and Maurie Markman; title: Central nervous system infections in cancer patients / Victor Mulanovich and Amar Safdar; title: Endocarditis in oncology patients / Sara E. Cosgrove and Aruna Subramanian; title: Skin disorders difficult to distinguish from infections / Sharone Hymes, Susan Chon, and Ana Ciurea; title: Overview of invasive fungal disease in oncology patients / Amar Safdar; title: Diagnosis of invasive fungal disease / Dionissios Neofytos and Kieren Marr; title: Invasive candidiasis in management of infections in cancer patients / Matteo Bassetti ... [et. al]; title: Management of aspergillosis, zygomycosis, and other clinically relevant mold infections / Konstantinos Leventakos and Dimitrios P. Kontoyiannis; title: Cryptococcal disease and endemic mycosis / Johan A. Maertens and Hélène Schoemans; title: Current controversies in the treatment of fungal infections / Christopher D. Pfeiffer, John R. Perfect, and Barbra D. Alexander; title: Fungal drug resistance and pharmacologic considerations of dosing newer antifungal therapies / Russell E. Lewis and David S. Perlin; title: Immunotherapy for difficult-to-treat invasive fungal diseases / Brahm H. Segal, Amar Safdar, and David A. Stevens; title: Cytomegalovirus in patients with cancer / Morgan Hakki, Per Ljungman, and Michael Boeckh; title: Epstein-Barr virus, varicella zoster virus, and human herpes viruses-6 and -8 / Mini Kamboj and David M. Weinstock; title: Respiratory viruses / Roy F. Chemaly, Dhanesh B. Rathod, and Robert Couch; title: BK, JC and parvovirus infections in patients with hematologic malignancies / Véronique Erard and Michael Boeckh; title: Antiviral resistance and implications for prophylaxis / Robin K. Avery; title: Management of gram-positive bacterial disease : staphylococcus aureus, streptococcal, pneumococcal, and enterococcal infections / Samuel Shelburne and Daniel M. Musher; title: Infections caused by aerobic and anaerobic gram-negative bacilli / Kenneth V. I. Rolston, David E.Greenberg, and Amar Safdar; title: Listeriosis and nocardiosis / Heather E. Clauss and Bennett Lorber; title: Antibacterial distribution and drug-drug interactions in cancer patients / Ursula Theuretzbacher and Markus Zeitlinger; title: Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection / Michael Glickman; title: Nontuberculous mycobacterial infections / Amar Safdar; title: Parasitic infections in cancer patients : toxoplasmosis, strongyloidiasis and other parasites / Brian G. Blackburn and José G. Montoya; title: Zoonoses in cancer patients / Donald Armstrong; title: Antibiotic stewardship : considerations for a cancer Center / Coralia N. Mihu, Alla Paskovaty, and Susan K. Seo; title: Controversies in antimicrobial stewardship / Graeme N. Forrest; title: Prevention of antimicrobial resistance : current and future strategies / Cesar A. Arias and Adolf W. Karchmer; title: Antibacterial, antifungal, and antiviral prophylaxis / Marcio Nucci and John R. Wingard; title: Controversies in antimicrobial prophylaxis / Ben de Pauw and Marta Stanzani; title: Infection prevention : protected environment and infection control / J. Peter Donnelly; title: Prevention of tropical and parasitic infections : the immunocompromised traveler / Francesca F. Norman and Rogelio López-Vélez; title: Prophylactic vaccination of cancer patients and hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients / William Decker and Amar Safdar.