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Title

Clinical approach to infection in the compromised host / edited by Robert H. Rubin and Lowell S. Young ; with a foreword by Ralph Van Furth.

Publication

New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum, c2002.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Rubin, Robert H., 1941-
• Young, Lowell S.

Description

xxv, 719 p. : ill. (some col.); 29 cm.

Subjects

• Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome > immunology
• Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes > complications
• Immunocompromised Host > immunology
• Opportunistic infections
• Communicable diseases
• Immunological deficiency syndromes > Complications

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. Introduction / Robert H. Rubin and Lowell S. Young -- 2. Defects in Host Defense Mechanisms / Jos W. M. van der Meer and Bart Jan Kullberg -- 3. Mucocutaneous Infections in the Immunocompromised Host / Richard Allen Johnson and Arthur Sober -- 4. Clinical Approach to the Compromised Host with Fever and Pulmonary Infiltrates / Robert H. Rubin and Reginald Greene -- 5. Central Nervous System Infection in the Immunocompromised Host / Allan R. Tunkel and W. Michael Scheld -- 6. Fungal Infections in the Immunocompromised Host / L. Joseph Wheat, Mitchell Goldman and George A. Sarosi -- 7. Mycobacterial and Nocardial Diseases in the Compromised Host / Lowell S. Young and Robert H. Rubin -- 8. Pneumocystis carinii and Parasitic Infections in the Immunocompromised Host / Jay Alan Fishman -- 9. Viral Hepatitis in the Compromised Host / Peter M. Rosenberg and Jules L. Dienstag -- 10. The Herpesviruses / Paul D. Griffiths --
• 11. Morbidity in Compromised Patients Related to Viruses Other than Herpes Group and Hepatitis Viruses / Robert T. Schooley -- 12. Pathogenesis and Clinical Manifestations of HIV-1 Infection / Robert T. Schooley and Constance A. Benson -- 13. Infectious Complications in Children with Cancer and Children with Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection / Sarah W. Alexander, Brigitta U. Mueller and Philip A. Pizzo -- 14. Infections Complicating Congenital Immunodeficiency Syndromes / John C. Christenson and Harry R. Hill -- 15. Management of Infections in Leukemia and Lymphoma / Lowell S. Young -- 16. Infection in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation / Michael Boeckh and Kieren A. Marr -- 17. Infection in the Organ Transplant Recipient / Robert H. Rubin -- 18. Surgical Aspects of Infection in the Compromised Host / A. Benedict Cosimi.

ISBN

0306466937

LCCN

2001053922

OCLC

• ocm48177347
• SCSB-4793989

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries