Consultations in infectious disease : a case based approach to diagnosis and management /

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Author / Creator:Caplivski, Daniel.
Imprint:Oxford : Oxford University Press, ©2011.
Description:1 online resource.
Language:English
Series:Oxford American infectious disease library
Oxford American infectious disease library.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11146505
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Other authors / contributors:Scheld, W. Michael.
ISBN:9780199909100
0199909105
9780199735006
019973500X
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:Infectious diseases have plagued man throughout history. In the era of modern medicine antibiotics and vaccines brought the hope of liberation from the great scourges of smallpox, polio, and tuberculosis. Yet, in the ensuing decades as we hoped to close the book on infectious diseases, we have instead been confronted by wave upon wave of new assailants. AIDS, SARS, pandemic influenza, and multi-drug resistant bacteria demonstrated how our technological advances have either fallen short in halting or even enhanced the spread of emerging pathogens. International air travel has collapsed geograph.
Other form:Print version: Caplivski, Daniel. Consultations in infectious disease. Oxford : Oxford University Press, ©2011 9780199735006