Feigin and Cherry's Textbook of Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Expert Consult - Online and Print, 2-Volume Set
- 6th Edition - April 30, 2009
- Latest edition
- Authors: James Cherry, Gail J. Demmler-Harrison, Sheldon L. Kaplan, Ralph D. Feigin
- Language: English
The new edition of this popular reference continues to present the critical answers you need to address your most difficult clinical challenges. It explores the latest advances in… Read more
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Description
The new edition of this popular reference continues to present the critical answers you need to address your most difficult clinical challenges. It explores the latest advances in the treatment of pediatric disease, equipping you with unparalleled coverage of immunology, epidemiology, public health, preventive medicine, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, treatment, and much more. Stay on track with updates, including para- and post-infectious demyelinating diseases of the central nervous system, antibiotic resistance, and molecular techniques in laboratory diagnosis — just to name a few—enable you to put the very latest knowledge to work for your patients. Plus, as an Expert Consult title, the book comes with access to the complete contents online, fully searchable, plus links to Medline and PubMed abstracts — providing you with rapid and easy reference from any computer!
Key features
Key features
- Offers unmatched, comprehensive coverage of immunology, epidemiology, public health, preventive medicine, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, treatment, and much more, for convenient consultation in one comprehensive reference.
- Organizes information both by organ system and by etiologic microorganism, enabling you to find the answers you need quickly by approaching any topic from either direction.
Readership
Readership
Pediatrics, Infectious Disease
Review quotes
Review quotes
“This is the textbook to which all who desire a comprehensive exposition of pediatric infectious disease will turn.” – JAMA, review of the previous edition.
"The editors and publishers should be commended the first for being able to collect the data, the latter for the high technical quality of production. Contains an expert-consult searchable on-line. Highly recommended not only to specialists in infectious diseases and departments of pediatrics but to all pediatricians." Pediateic Endocrinology Reviews, December 2009
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 6
- Latest edition
- Published: April 30, 2009
- Language: English
About the authors
About the authors
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James Cherry
James D. Cherry, MD, MSc is a Distinguished Research Professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital, Division of Infectious Diseases. Dr. Cherry established one of the first formal pediatric infectious disease fellowship programs in the world in 1963 at the University of Wisconsin. In 1973 Dr. Cherry started the first pediatric infectious training program at UCLA. During his 43 years tenure at UCLA, numerous trainees have gone on to be leaders in pediatric infectious diseases in the US and around the world. Dr. Cherry has won many awards during his career.
Affiliations and expertise
Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA; Attending Physician, Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USAGD
Gail J. Demmler-Harrison
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, Baylor College of Medicine; Attending Physician, Infectious Diseases Service, Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, Texas, USASK
Sheldon L. Kaplan
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine; Attending Physician, Infectious Disease Service, Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, Texas, USARF
Ralph D. Feigin
Affiliations and expertise
J.S. Abercrombie Professor, Chairman, Department of Pediatrics, Distinguished Service Professor, Baylor College of Medicine; Physician-in-Chief, Texas Children’s Hospital; Physician-in-Chief, Service of Pediatrics, Ben Taub General Hospital; Chief, Pediatric Service, The Methodist Hospital, Houston, TXView book on ScienceDirect
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