Clinical Approach to Infection in the Compromised Host Book

Host Defenses and the Risk of Infection in the Compromised (Host), the importance of innate and specific immunity.- Epidemiologic Factors and Infection Control in the Compromised Host.- Sepsis in the Compromised Host.- Principles of Diagnosis and Antimicrobial Therapy in the Compromised Host.- Mucocutaneous Infections in the Compromised Host.- Clinical Approach to the Compromised Host with Fever and Pulmonary Infiltrates;- Central Nervous System in the Compromised Host.- The Endemic Mycoses in the Compromised Host.- :Opportunistic Fungal Infection in the Compromised Host.- Mycobacterial and Nocardial Infections in the Compromised Host.- Pneumocystis jurovici and Parasitic Infections in the Compromised Host.- Viral Hepatitis in the Compromised Host.- The Herpes Viruses in the Compromised Host.- Other Viruses.- Pathogenesis, clinical impact, and Therapy in HIV infected individual.- Clinical Management of Infection in the Patient with HIV/AIDS.- Infectious Complications in Childrem with Cancer and/or HIV Infection.- Diagnosis, Prevention and Management of Infection in Patients with leukemia and/or lymphoma.- Infection in Patients undergoing Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation.- Diagnosis, Prevention, and Impact of Infection in the Organ Transplant Recipient.- Surgical Aspects of Infection in the Compromised Host, A. Benedict Cosimi.