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Research and Markets: Infectious Disease - Clinical Cases Uncovered Gives the Know-How to Recognize, Understand, Investigate and Manage Many Infectious Conditions

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Fri Sep 18, 2009 2:00pm EDT

DUBLIN--(Business Wire)--
Research and Markets
(http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/3916de/infectious_disease) has
announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd's new report "Infectious
Disease: Clinical Cases Uncovered" to their offering. 

Infectious Disease is a core topic within the clinical curriculum and students
are expected to recognize, understand and know how to investigate and manage
many infectious conditions. 

Infectious Disease: Clinical Cases Uncovered leads students through a clinical
approach to managing problems, with a question-answer approach developing the
narrative. With self-assessment exercises using MCQs, EMQs and SAQs, Infectious
Disease: Clinical Cases Uncovered is perfect for medical students and junior
doctors, infectious disease nurses, nursing students and nurse practitioners. 

Key Topics Covered:

Part 1 Basics. 

Laboratory diagnosis of infection. 

Antimicrobial chemotherapy. 

Infection and immunity. 

Approach to the patient. 

Part 2 Cases. 

Case 1 A 68-year-old woman with bloody diarrhea. 

Case 2 A 73-year-old man who has been feeling generally unwell for 2 weeks. 

Case 3 A 36-year-old man with hospital-acquired pneumonia. 

Case 4 A 26-year-old male with jaundice. 

Case 5 A 28-year-old female student with severe headache and drowsiness. 

Case 6 A 30-year-old female with a vesicular skin rash. 

Case 7 A 37-year-old man with fever and pleuritic pain. 

Case 8 A 14-year-old school girl with a rash. 

Case 9 A 68-year-old woman with fever and muscle pains. 

Case 10 A 35-year-old teacher with fever and chills on return from Malawi. 

Case 11 A 32-year-old man with night sweats and fatigue. 

Case 12 A 41-year-old male with a red, hot and swollen left lower leg. 

Case 13 An 18-year-old female student with vaginal discharge. 

Case 14 An outbreak of diarrhea and vomiting on an orthopaedic ward. 

Case 15 An antenatal visit. 

Case 16 Headache in a 35-year-old South African woman. 

Case 17 A 64-year-old man with fever and rigors. 

Case 18 A 42-year-man with fever, cough and myalgia. 

Case 19 A 75-year-old man with a sore hip. 

Case 20 A 24-year-old man with acute myelogenous leukaemia who has developed a
fever. 

Case 21 A 53-year-old man with fever, severe back pain and abdominal pain. 

Case 22 A 20-year-old female student with a rash, fever, myalgia and diarrhea. 

Case 23 A 54-year-old man with a cough and night sweats. 

Case 24 A 15-year-old boy with fever and a sore throat. 

Part 3 Self-assessment. 

MCQs. 

EMQs. 

SAQs. 

Answers. 

Index of cases by diagnosis or organism. 

Index. 

For more information visit
http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/3916de/infectious_disease



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