This book delivers a virtual storehouse of information to aid doctors and healthcare professionals in diagnosing and treating patients across the entire spectrum of infectious disease. It provides the most complete collection of professionally prepared images on the subject ever compiled. A panel of renowned editors and contributors have worked together to provide the reader with a reference containing images of exceptional quality that exemplify contemporary science and practice. Derived from the Atlas of Infectious Diseases series, this comprehensive reference contains over 600 superb, full-color visuals creating an ultimate image reference source.

Featuring more than 400 superb full-color illustrations, this atlas is a complete collection of visual clues to aid in diagnosis and management of patients with infectious diseases. Ten renowned editors have put together a uniquely instructive reference that is invaluable for all clinicians in the "front lines" of medical care, including infectious disease and primary care physicians and residents. The atlas includes beautifully reproduced illustrations of skin and mucous membrane lesions, eye findings, radiographs, gram stains, culture plates, insect vectors, body fluid preparations, and biopsy specimens. This Second Edition incorporates current information on changing patterns of antimicrobial susceptibility and new antimicrobial agents.

The Atlas of Human Infectious Diseases provides a much needed practical and visual overview of the current distribution and determinants of major infectious diseases of humans. The comprehensive full-color maps show at a glance the areas with reported infections and outbreaks, and are accompanied by a concise summary of key information on the infectious agent and its clinical and epidemiological characteristics. Since infectious diseases are dynamic, the maps are presented in the context of a changing world, and how these changes are influencing the geographical distribution on human infections. This unique atlas: Contains more than 145 high quality full-color maps covering all major human infectious diseases Provides key information on the illustrated infectious diseases Has been compiled and reviewed by an editorial board of infectious disease experts from around the world The result is a concise atlas with a consistent format throughout, where material essential for understanding the global spatial distribution of infectious diseases has been thoughtfully assembled by international experts. Atlas of Human Infectious Diseases is an essential tool for infectious disease specialists, medical microbiologists, virologists, travel medicine specialists, and public health professionals. The Atlas of Human Infectious Diseases is accompanied by a FREE enhanced Wiley Desktop Edition - an interactive digital version of the book with downloadable images and text, highlighting and note-taking facilities, book-marking, cross-referencing, in-text searching, and linking to references and glossary terms.

Based on key content from Red Book: 2006 Report of the Committee on Infectious Diseases, 27th Edition, the new Red Bookr Atlas is a useful quick reference tool for the clinical diagnosis and treatment of more than 75 of the most commonly seen pediatric infectious diseases. Includes more than 500 full-color images adjacent to concise diagnostic and treatment guidelines. Essential information on each condition is presented in the precise sequence needed in the clinical setting: Clinical manifestations, Etiology, Epidemiology, Incubation period, Diagnostic tests, Treatment

This new atlas has been created especially for the primary care physician, from the spectacular 10 volume Atlas of Infectious Diseases, edited by Gerald Mandell. It contains over 450 full-colour images, to give the optimal range of image types for a multifaceted understanding of each clinical probelm: clinical photographs of patients, pathology specimens, gram stains, culture plates, radiographic material, scans, schematic drawings, and tables. There are detailed captions discussing each image which are targeted to help the busy non-specialist clinician easily diagnose and treat the entire range of systemic infections.

Infectious diseases may be encountered in nearly every aspect of pathology. This atlas provides an informative reference for the identification of the common and esoteric pathogens, presenting in a wide array of specimen types. The focus of the presented images is on the hematoxylin and eosin-stained appearances of these infections and highlight common special stains that can be used to aid in the diagnosis of the infectious agent. Where appropriate, commentary regarding additional testing such as immunohistochemistry and molecular-based methods is supplied. The Atlas of Infectious Disease Pathology is organized primarily by pathogen type followed by discussion of the various manifestations that may occur in individual organ systems. The reader will be provided with a comprehensive overview of the histopathology of the majority of infectious diseases encountered in general and subspecialty practice alike.