Pediatric Infectious Diseases: Principles and Practice

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Summary: Pediatric infectious diseases
Review: This is a very impressive book on infectious diseases in childhood and adolescence for both specialists in pediatrics, infectious disease and family medicine. It is edited by Hal B Jenson from the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and Robert S Baltimore from the Yale University School of Medicine and the departments of Pediatrics, Epidemiology and Public Health.
The editors have gathered 71 contributors from the field of pediatrics, infectious disease, microbiology, immunology, dermatology and internal medicine. Most from the United States with one contribution from Canada and one from Jamaica.
This textbook is extensive with 106 chapters and a useful index with each chapter well edited and devided into classical sections of etiology, epidemiology, pathogenesis, symptoms and clinical manifestations, diagnosis, treatment, complications, prevention and references.
We have looked at many chapters and found useful information in a clear and straightforward language. One question we especially looked for was when to give a hepatitis B booster, but this is still left unanswered.
This is an important book that should be found at every pediatric department library, on the desk of the consultant in infectious disease and also important for the adult specialist in infectious diseases serving the pediatric population.