MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY, VIROLOGY, MYCOLOGY, PARASITOLOGY
CONTENTS SECTION I PRINCIPLES OF INFECTION MANAGEMENT CHAPTER 11 PILLARS OF INFECTION MANAGEMENT CHAPTER 12 DIAGNOSTIC STEWARDSHIP CHAPTER 13 ANTIMICROBIAL STEWARDSHIP CHAPTER 14 INFECTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL SECTION II DIAGNOSIS OF INFECTIONS CHAPTER 21 COMMENSAL FLORA CHAPTER 22 DIAGNOSING BACTERIAL INFECTIONS CHAPTER 23 DIAGNOSING VIRAL INFECTIONS CHAPTER 24 DIAGNOSING INVASIVE FUNGAL INFECTIONS CHAPTER 25 DIAGNOSING PARASITIC INFECTIONS CHAPTER 26 LABORATORY DETECTION OF ?-LACTAM RESISTANCE IN ENTEROBACTERALES CHAPTER 27 UNDERSTANDING THE ANTIBIOGRAM CHAPTER 28 UNDERSTANDING MICROBIOLOGY CULTURE RESULTS CHAPTER 29 UNDERSTANDING SEROLOGY CHAPTER 210 UNDERSTANDING MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS SECTION III TREATMENT OF INFECTIONS CHAPTER 31 BASIC PRINCIPLES OF ANTIBIOTIC TREATMENT CHAPTER 32 BASIC PRINCIPLES OF ANTIFUNGAL TREATMENT CHAPTER 33 ?-LACTAM ALLERGY CHAPTER 34 ANTIMICROBIALS IN PREGNANT WOMEN CHAPTER 35 ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND LIVER INJURY CHAPTER 36 ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND NEUROTOXICITY CHAPTER 37 ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND DRUG INTERACTIONS CHAPTER 38 PHARMACOKINETIC AND PHARMACODYNAMIC CONSIDERATIONS CHAPTER 39 SOURCE CONTROL CHAPTER 310 ANTIBIOTIC TREATMENT FAILURE SECTION IV SPECIAL PROBLEMS CHAPTER 41 ACUTE STREPTOCOCCAL PHARYNGITIS CHAPTER 42 ANIMAL BITES CHAPTER 43 ASYMPTOMATIC BACTERIURIA CHAPTER 44 ATYPICAL PNEUMONIA CHAPTER 45 BACTERIAL SKIN AND SOFT TISSUE INFECTIONS CHAPTER 46 BLOODSTREAM INFECTIONS CHAPTER 47 BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS CHAPTER 48 BREAST ABSCESS CHAPTER 49 BRONCHIECTASIS CHAPTER 410 BRONCHITIS CHAPTER 411 BRUCELLOSIS CHAPTER 412 CANDIDURIA CHAPTER 413 CARDIAC IMPLANTABLE DEVICE INFECTIONS CHAPTER 414 CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS CHAPTER 415 CHOLANGITIS CHAPTER 416 DEEP NECK SPACE INFECTION CHAPTER 417 EMPYEMA CHAPTER 418 ENCEPHALITIS CHAPTER 419 ENDOCARDITIS CHAPTER 420 NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE CHAPTER 421 HEPATITIS A CHAPTER 422 HEPATITIS B CHAPTER 423 HEPATITIS C CHAPTER 424 HEPATITIS E CHAPTER 425 HISTOPLASMOSIS CHAPTER 426 HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS AND OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS CHAPTER 427 INFECTIONS IN HAEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTS CHAPTER 428 INFECTIONS IN THE ICU CHAPTER 429 INFECTIOUS DIARRHOEA CHAPTER 430 INFLUENZA CHAPTER 431 INTRA-ABDOMINAL INFECTIONS CHAPTER 432 INVASIVE CANDIDIASIS CHAPTER 433 INVASIVE GROUP A STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS CHAPTER 434 INVASIVE PULMONARY ASPERGILLOSIS CHAPTER 435 KERATITIS CHAPTER 436 LUNG ABSCESS CHAPTER 437 MEASLES CHAPTER 438 MENINGITIS CHAPTER 439 NEAR-DROWNING-ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA CHAPTER 440 NEUTROPAENIC SEPSIS CHAPTER 441 NON-RESOLVING PNEUMONIA CHAPTER 442 NOROVIRUS CHAPTER 443 ONYCHOMYCOSIS CHAPTER 444 OSTEOMYELITIS CHAPTER 445 OTITIS EXTERNA CHAPTER 446 PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE CHAPTER 447 PERIANAL ABSCESS CHAPTER 448 PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECII PNEUMONIA (PJP) IN PATIENTS WITH A HAEMATOLOGICAL MALIGNANCY OR SOLID ORGAN TRANSPLANT CHAPTER 449 PNEUMONIA (CAP, HAP AND VAP) CHAPTER 450 POST-EXPOSURE PROPHYLAXIS FOR HEALTHCARE WORKERS EXPOSED TO BLOOD-BORNE VIRUSES CHAPTER 451 POST-OPERATIVE INFECTIONS CHAPTER 452 PROSTHETIC JOINT INFECTIONS CHAPTER 453 PROSTATITIS CHAPTER 454 PYOMYOSITIS CHAPTER 455 RINGWORM CHAPTER 456 SALMONELLA CARRIAGE CHAPTER 457 SEPTIC ARTHRITIS CHAPTER 458 SEPTIC BURSITIS CHAPTER 459 SPLENECTOMY: FROM PROPHYLAXIS TO TREATMENT CHAPTER 460 THE IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT CHAPTER 461 TYPHOID FEVER CHAPTER 462 URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS CHAPTER 463 UVEITIS CHAPTER 464 VARICELLA ZOSTER SECTION V DIFFICULT-TO-TREAT ORGANISMS CHAPTER 51 AMPC, EXTENDED-SPECTRUM ?-LACTAMASE AND CARBAPENEMASE PRODUCERS CHAPTER 52 ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII CHAPTER 53 ACHROMOBACTER XYLOSOXIDANS CHAPTER 54 PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA CHAPTER 55 STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA CHAPTER 56 STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS CHAPTER 57 VANCOMYCIN-RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCI CHAPTER 58 HELICOBACTER PYLORI CHAPTER 59 CLOSTRIDIOIDES DIFFICILE CHAPTER 510 ACTINOMYCOSIS CHAPTER 511 NOCARDIA CHAPTER 62 SPECIMEN COLLECTION CHAPTER 63 SPECTRUM OF ACTIVITY OF ANTIBIOTICS CHAPTER 64 DOSES OF COMMON ANTIMICROBIALS CHAPTER 65 PATHOGEN-SPECIFIC INFECTION CONTROL PRECAUTIONS CHAPTER 66 PILLARS OF INFECTION CONTROL CHAPTER 67 TRANSMISSION-BASED PRECAUTIONS