Infectious Disease

Infectious Disease is a core topic within the clinical curriculum and students are expected to recognize, understand and know how to investigate and manage many infectious conditions. Infectious Disease: Clinical Cases Uncovered leads students through a clinical approach to managing problems, with a question-answer approach developing the narrative. With self-assessment exercises using MCQs, EMQs and SAQs, Infectious Disease: Clinical Cases Uncovered is perfect for medical students and junior doctors, infectious disease nurses, nursing students and nurse practitioners.

Infectious Disease is a core topic within the clinical curriculumand students are expected to recognize, understand and know how toinvestigate and manage many infectious conditions.Infectious Disease: Clinical Cases Uncovered leadsstudents through a clinical approach to managing problems, with aquestion-answer approach developing the narrative. Withself-assessment exercises using MCQs, EMQs and SAQs, InfectiousDisease: Clinical Cases Uncovered is perfect for medicalstudents and junior doctors, infectious disease nurses, nursingstudents and nurse practitioners.

Preface.Acknowledgements.How to use this book.Part 1 Basics.Laboratory diagnosis of infection.Antimicrobial chemotherapy.Infection and immunity.Approach to the patient.Part 2 Cases.Case 1 A 68-year-old woman with bloody diarrhoea.Case 2 A 73-year-old man who has been feeling generally unwellfor 2 weeks.Case 3 A 36-year-old man with hospital-acquired pneumonia.Case 4 A 26-year-old male with jaundice.Case 5 A 28-year-old female student with severe headache anddrowsiness.Case 6 A 30-year-old female with a vesicular skin rash.Case 7 A 37-year-old man with fever and pleuritic pain.Case 8 A 14-year-old school girl with a rash.Case 9 A 68-year-old woman with fever and muscle pains.Case 10 A 35-year-old teacher with fever and chills on returnfrom Malawi.Case 11 A 32-year-old man with night sweats and fatigue.Case 12 A 41-year-old male with a red, hot and swollen leftlower leg.Case 13 An 18-year-old female student with vaginaldischarge.Case 14 An outbreak of diarrhoea and vomiting on an orthopaedicward.Case 15 An antenatal visit.Case 16 Headache in a 35-year-old South African woman.Case 17 A 64-year-old man with fever and rigors.Case 18 A 42-year-man with fever, cough and myalgia.Case 19 A 75-year-old man with a sore hip.Case 20 A 24-year-old man with acute myelogenous leukaemia whohas developed a fever.Case 21 A 53-year-old man with fever, severe back pain andabdominal pain.Case 22 A 20-year-old female student with a rash, fever, myalgiaand diarrhoea.Case 23 A 54-year-old man with a cough and night sweats.Case 24 A 15-year-old boy with fever and a sore throat.Part 3 Self-assessment.MCQs.EMQs.SAQs.Answers.Index of cases by diagnosis or organism.Index.