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Infectious diseases remain a leading cause of child morbidity and mortality worldwide. This updated manual complements the Pan European initiatives to harmonise patient management and training in Paediatric Infectious Diseases (PID).

Infection in children --- Children --- Pediatric pathology --- Diseases

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This book provides step-by-step diagnosis and management using a signs and symptoms approach, with a patient-oriented structure for logical development of a differential diagnosis, evaluation and treatment plan, confirmation of the diagnosis and appropriate therapy. This edition includes new medications, new names of known pathogens, new practice guidelines, and extensive revisions to chapters on urinary syndromes, hepatitis syndromes, and HIV infection and AIDS.

Communicable diseases in children. --- Children --- Infection in children --- Diseases

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Infection in children --- Infection chez l'enfant --- Maladies infectieuses chez l'enfant

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In the care of pediatric patients, infectious diseases comprise over 50% of the clinical diagnoses. For this reason, it is essential to have a basic understanding of infectious processes and to keep abreast of new developments in the field. This reference stands as a convenient and time-saving reference for clinicians on the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of pediatric infections diseases and is completely updated to include the latest guidelines from esteemed societies such as the Infectious Disease Society of America, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the American Thoracic

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Although information about the natural history, management, and outcome of intrauterine and perinatally acquired infections is readily available, the busy clinician requires methods for quickly and easily determining the diagnosis of these infections, especially in a time of ever changing advances in diagnostic technology and the emergence of new infectious agents. In Congenital and Perinatal Infection: A Concise Guide to Diagnosis, a distinguished panel of pediatric and infectious disease specialists present in an easily accessible format all the information needed to diagnose a wide variety of infections in both the pregnant woman and the neonate. Organized by specific infection or related infections, the book provides pertinent information about the epidemiology of each infection in the pregnant woman and her neonate, as well as the risk of transmission to the fetus or neonate, the spectrum of clinical disease, and a recommended approach to the diagnosis of the infection in not only the mother, but also her neonate. The emphasis is on understanding what tests to order and how to interpret the results, with the approach to diagnosis in each chapter encompassing both the pregnant woman and her neonate. The book covers a wide range of micro-organisms that are both common and uncommon causes of congenital and perinatal infections, including the herpes simplex virus, HIV, toxoplasmosis, syphilis, CMV, tuberculosis, malaria, dengue, lymphocytic choriomeningtis virus, and parvovirus. Up to date and user friendly, Congenital and Perinatal Infection: A Concise Guide to Diagnosis offers the busy clinician caring for pregnant women and/or their infants a practical guide to determining infection risks and which assays are the most appropriate to use for their diagnosis.

Communicable diseases in the fetus --- Neonatal infections --- Diagnosis. --- Newborn infants --- Infection in newborn infants --- Infections --- Medicine. --- Obstetrics. --- Medicine & Public Health. --- Obstetrics/Perinatology. --- Infection in children --- Fetus --- Diseases