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Medical Microbiology for the New Curriculum: A Case-Based Approach
ISBN: 9780470174296
Platform/Publisher: WOL / Wiley-Liss
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited
Subjects: Life Sciences; Microbiology & Virology;

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.

Robert B. Carey, Ph.D. is professor in the department of pathology and director of clinical microbiology at Loyola University Medical Center. A board certified medical microbiologist, Dr. Carey has extensive research and teaching experience.

Karin L. McGowan, Ph.D. is professor in the departments of pediatrics and microbiology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and director of the laboratory of clinical microbiology at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

Mindy G. Schuster, M.D. is professor of medicine and infectious diseases at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.