Infectious Diseases in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Sebastian, Faro; Monif, Gilles R. G.; Baker, David A.

From reviews of previous editions: Winner of the American Medical Writers' Award for Best Multiple Author Text in Medicine 1975: 'when each of the chapters reads equally smoothly with completely lucid narrative and original, highly informative illustrators, one is rapidly alerted to the fact that such a book is a cut above the average multi-authored monograph.' 'This book is one of the best, if not the best multi-authored text I have ever read on this subject ! The book certainly belongs in every library and should be a graduation gift to each department resident in obstetrics and gynecology.' JAMA 'Complete and up-to-date, this book is extremely well written and laced with numerous recent references following each subsection and many illustrations, graphs, figures and tables to augment the text.' American Family Physician 'This text is a must for anyone interested in the topic of infectious diseases in obstetrics and gynecology and is recommended highly by the reviewer.' Journal of the Medical Society of New Jersey 'The format of the book is interesting and useful. The reader can look for a specific group of organisms and read about them in detail or he or she may select a disease process and review the organisms that cause disease.' Mayo Clinic Proceedings 'This edition has been extensively revised and expanded to bring the most current and comprehensive information about infectious diseases in obstetrics and gynecology to the reader ! This is a text for those who care for women, whether as primary care physicians, generalist obstetrician/gynecologists or subspecialists.' Clinical Infectious Diseases

• I. General considerations 1. Understanding the bacteriology of the female genital tract 2. Immunological defense mechanisms in the female genital tract 3. Anaerobic infections 4. Antibiotic selection in Obstetrics and Gynecology 5. Antibiotics and pregnancy 6. Timing of antibiotic therapy 7. Antibiotic induced diarrhea 8. Prophylactic antibiotics II. Organisms 9. Congenital viral infections 10. Cytomegaloviruses 11. Enteroviruses 12. The hepatitis viruses 13. Herpes simplex viruses, types 1 and 2 (HSV-1, HSV-2) 14. Human immunodeficiency viruses 15. Human papilloma viruses 16. Human B-19 parvovirus 17. Influenza viruses 18. Measles 19. Mumps 20. Rubella 21. Varicella-zoster virus (chickenpox) 22. Calymmatobacterium granulomatis and Klebsiella granulomatis 23. Haemophilus ducreyi 24. Haemophilus influenzae 25. Listeria monocytogenes 26. Neisseria gonorrhoeae 27. Salmonella typhi 28. Streptococcus pneumoniae 29. Group A streptococci (Streptococcus pyogenes) 30. Actinomyces israelii 31. Bacteroidaceae 32. Clostridium perfringens 33. Clostridium sordellii 34. Escherichia coli 35. Gardnerella vaginalis (Haemophilus vaginalis) 36. Klebsiella/Enterobacter 37. Mobiluncus species 38. Peptostreptococci 39. The Proteus group 40. Staphylococci 41. Group B streptococci 42. Group C beta-hemolytic streptococci (Streptococcus milleri) 43. Enterococci and group D streptococci 44. Group F streptococci 45. Group G beta-hemolytic streptococci 46. Chlamydia trachomatis 47. Chlamydia trachomatis lymphogranuloma venereum (L) strains 48. Mycoplasma 49. Borrelia recurrentis (relapsing fever) 50. Borrelia burgdorferi (Lyme disease) 51. Leptospira 52. Treponema pallidum (syphilis) 53. Entamoeba histolytica (amebiasis) 54. Plasmodial infections (malaria) 55. Toxoplasma gondii (toxoplasmosis) 56. Trichomonas vaginalis 57. Candida albicans 58. Coccidioides immitis 59. Mycobacterium tuberculosis and M. bovis III. Problem Areas: Obstetrics 60. Chorioamnionitis 61. Infectious morbidity associated w