Research Catalog

Title

Respiratory infections : diagnosis and management / editor, James E. Pennington.

Publication

New York : Raven Press, [1994], ©1994.

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Details

Additional Authors

Pennington, James.

Description

xix, 811 pages : illustrations; 27 cm

Subjects

• Pneumonia
• Respiratory infections
• Respiratory Tract Infections

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Foreword to the First Edition / Robert G. Petersdorf -- 1. Normal and Defective Respiratory Host Defenses / Herbert Y. Reynolds -- 2. Bacterial Colonization of the Respiratory Tract: Clinical Significance / Donald E. Woods -- 3. Pulmonary Clearance of Infectious Agents / Galen B. Toews -- 4. Noninvasive Diagnostic Techniques for Lower Respiratory Infections / John A. Washington -- 5. Invasive Diagnostic Techniques in Pulmonary Infections / John G. Bartlett -- 6. Upper Respiratory Tract Infections: The Common Cold, Pharyngitis, Croup, Bacterial Tracheitis, and Epiglottitis / Caroline Breese Hall and John T. McBride -- 7. Acute and Chronic Sinusitis / Birgit Winther and Jack M. Gwaltney, Jr. -- 8. Otitis Media / Jerome O. Klein -- 9. Chronic Bronchitis / Anthony A. Floreani, Scott E. Buchalter, Joseph H. Sisson, Austin B. Thompson and Stephen I. Rennard -- 10. Community-Acquired Pneumonia and Acute Bronchitis / James E. Pennington -- 11. Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia / James E. Pennington.
• 12. Infections of the Lower Respiratory Tract in Infancy and Early Childhood / Hugh E. Evans and Nelson L. Turcios -- 13. Pneumonia in the Elderly / Anthony L. Esposito -- 14. Pneumonia in the Immunocompromised Host / Christopher H. Fanta and James E. Pennington -- 15. Diagnosis and Therapy of Pulmonary Disease in Patients Infected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus / Jeffrey R. Dichter, Anthony F. Suffredini and Henry Masur -- 16. Aspiration Pneumonia, Lung Abscess, and Empyema / Sydney M. Finegold -- 17. Pulmonary Infections in Cystic Fibrosis: Pathogenesis and Therapy / Stephen A. Chartrand and Melvin I. Marks -- 18. Gram-Positive Pneumonia / Barry M. Farr and Gerald L. Mandell -- 19. Gram-Negative Bacillary Pneumonias / Janice Eisenstadt and Lawrence R. Crane -- 20. Atypical Pneumonias / Carmelita U. Tuazon and Henry W. Murray -- 21. Hemophilus influenzae Pneumonia / Arnold L. Smith -- 22. Legionella Pneumonias / Paul H. Edelstein and Richard D. Meyer.
• 23. Unusual Bacterial Pneumonias Caused by Human Commensal, Environmental, and Animal-Associated Pathogens / Arnold N. Weinberg and Howard M. Heller -- 24. Viral Pneumonia / Robert S. Kauffman -- 25. Opportunistic Fungal Pneumonias: Aspergillus, Mucor, Candida, Torulopsis / James E. Pennington -- 26. Cryptococcus neoformans Pneumonia / Richard D. Diamond and Stuart M. Levitz -- 27. Coccidioidal Pneumonia / David J. Drutz -- 28. Histoplasma capsulatum Pneumonia / Scott F. Davies -- 29. Blastomyces dermatitidis Pneumonia / Scott F. Davies -- 30. Pneumonia Due to Actinomyces, Propionibacterium (Arachnia) propionicum, and Nocardia / Phillip I. Lerner -- 31. Pulmonary Tuberculosis / Bonita T. Mangura and Lee B. Reichman -- 32. Lung Disease Caused by Nontuberculous Mycobacteria / David E. Griffith and Richard J. Wallace, Jr. -- 33. Pneumocystis carinii / Lowell S. Young -- 34. Parasitic Pneumonias / Peter F. Weller.
• 35. Pharmacokinetics of Antibiotics in Respiratory Tissues and Fluids / Eugenie Bergogne-Berezin and Eric Vallee -- 36. Local Antibiotic Therapy for Bronchopulmonary Infections / Jean-Pierre Thys, Mickael Aoun and Jean Klastersky -- 37. Rational Use of New Antibiotics in Respiratory Infections / Hartmut Lode and Berndt Kemmerich.

ISBN

0781701732

LCCN

93048578

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries