Peter M Lydyard, Michael F Cole, John Holton, William L Irving, Nino Porakishvili, Pradhib Venkatesan, Katherine N Ward
April 2009
608 pages, 270 illustrations
Paperback: 978-0-8153-4142-0
Case Studies in Infectious Disease presents forty case studies featuring the most important human infectious diseases worldwide. Written for students of microbiology and medicine, this book describes the natural history of infection from point of entry of the pathogen through pathogenesis, clinical presentation, diagnosis and treatment. The use of real clinical cases serves to reinforce and extend the basic science.
Following the description of each case history, the same five sets of core questions are asked to encourage the student to think about infections in a common sequence. The initial set concerns the nature of the infectious agent, how the agent gains access to the body, what cells are infected, and how the organism spreads; the second set asks about host defense mechanisms against the agent and how disease is caused; the third set inquires about the clinical manifestations of the infection and the complications that can occur; the fourth set is related to how the infection is diagnosed, and what is the differential diagnosis, and the final set asks how the infection is managed, and what preventative measures can be taken to avoid the infection.
