Electronic ISSN 2287-0237

VOLUME

INFECTIOUS DISEASES,2-VOLUME SET 4TH EDITION

FEBRUARY 2017 - VOL.13 | BOOK REVIEW

   
Review by: Panpit Suwangool, MD

 



The latest edition of Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett’s Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases provides over 38 years of excellence, delivering the core content and advances of infectious diseases

 

This 2-volume textbook covers one of the most dynamic fieldsin infectious diseases and internal medicine, as well as emergingand re-emerging infectious diseases.

 

Many aspects of infectious diseases remain essential aspects of the clinical armamentarium. In this edition, the editors make a very good balance that honors the old and features the new.

 

This textbook offers a broad overview of infectious diseases, covering epidemiology, pathogenesis and clinical manifestation, as well as treatment, prevention and control.

 

All chapters are written to help or guide physicians, internists, family practitioners and infectious diseases physicians, approach fever in infected and non-infected patients in many different ways, including clinical syndromes causative agents and host characteristics, and also offers an excellent overview of infectious diseases.