NEW COLOR EDITION!!!
Excellent for USMLE Board Review!
A brief, clear, thorough, and highly enjoyable updated approach to clinical microbiology, brimming with mnemonics, humor, summary charts and illustrations, from Ebola to AIDS to flesh-eating bacteria; to mad cow disease, hantavirus, anthrax, smallpox, botulism, Clostridium difficile diagnosis and treatment; treatment of gonorrhea in light of growing antimicrobial resistance; Tuberculosis diagnostics, drugs for treatment of latent TB infection and MDR TB; the latest antibi,otics; pandemic flu, including H7N9; SARS-like coron,avirus; the latest hepatitis C treatment options; the latest HI,V diagnostics and approved HI,V meds; Zika virus; Measles and a new chapter on the latest emerging infectious diseases and drug resistant bacteria.
*The major update to this book is the addition of a brand new chapter on the SA,RS-COV-2 Vir,us and COV,ID-19 disease. This chapter delves into the nature of the virus such as:
SAR,S-COV-2 Virus genetic makeup
SAR,S-COV-2 Virus structural components
Infectivity within the body
Transmission between individuals
Timeline of infectivity
Symptoms
Risk factors
Different laboratory testing methods
Radiology findings in the infected
Different PPE and their usefulness
Therapeutics for COV,ID-19 such as: antiviral therapies, plasma treatment, monoclonal antibody therapy, anticoagulation and anti-inflammatory therapy
Names and method of actions of all vaccines approved for use.
Key Features
Paperback:
Publisher: Medmaster
Bookseller : BADE BOOKS
Language: English
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