Encompassing twenty-four clinically important and frequently encountered infectious diseases, the text provides all the necessary background and the most up-to-date treatment of the microbes that cause diseases in humans. Each fully illustrated case study is introduced with a patient history, differential diagnosis, clinical clues, laboratory data, pathogenesis, treatment, and prevention. Presented as unknowns, the cases challenge readers to create a differential diagnosis just as they would in practice, including noninfectious causes that could present similar clinical findings.
?The authors succeed in bringing the teaching of microbiology alive in this slim volume.? ( Journal of Tropical Pediatrics, November 2008)
"?useful to the medical student. It will be particularly useful as more universities develop the case-based teaching approach." ( Doody s Book Reviews )
"I like having this book on my shelf." ( Microbiology Today , March 2008)
"?useful to the medical student. It will be particularly useful as more universities develop the case-based teaching approach." ( Doody s Book Reviews )
"I like having this book on my shelf." ( Microbiology Today , March 2008)