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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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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

  • 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

Pediatrics, Infectious Disease

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

  • Edition: 6
  • Latest edition
  • Published: April 30, 2009
  • Language: English

About the authors

JC

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, USA

GD

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, USA

SK

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, USA

RF

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, TX

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