Medical Management of Infectious Disease

Christopher Grace, University of Vermont.

• Introduction: infectious disease emergencies - recognition and initial management, Robert E. Levitz; commonly used oral antibiotics, Thomas D. Lamarre, William Maher, and Robert Fass; pharmacokinetics and dynamics, John W. Ahern; the clinician andthe microbiology laboratory, Daniel J. Diekema; outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy, Donald M. Poretz. Fever and: fever and rash, Mary Beth Ramundo; non-infectious and cryptic fevers, Brad E. Robinson and Christopher J. Grace; blood cultures, CherylA. Smith. Clinical syndromes: Respiratory tract; upper respiratory tract infections, Kemper Alston and Kristen I. Fahrner; infections of the oral cavity, H. Charles Hill, Susan M. Hill, and Thomas W. Connolly; pneumonia and bronchitis, John G. Bartlettand Christopher J. Grace; tuberculosis, C. Fordham von Reyn; common cold and influenza, Sherif B. Mossad; genito-urinary tract; urinary tract infections, Kevin Diekhaus; gyneacologic infections, Rebecca A. Clark; male urogenital syndromes, Craig S.Conover and Mark Potter; cardiac; endocarditis, JoAnn Tufariello and Frank Lowey; skin and soft tissue; bacterial infections of the skin, Jeffrey Parsonnet; non-bacterial infections of the skin, Anita L. Licata; ocular infections, Martin Mayers, EsseneBell, and Michael Miller; Gastrointestinal; infectious diarrhoea, Beth D. Kirkpatrick; hepatitis, Jayant A. Talwalkar and Michael R. Charlton; intra-abdominal infections, Neil H. Hyman and Christopher Grace; human immunodeficiency virus; the patient withHIV infection - recognition, testing and initial assessment, Ken H. Mayer and Dan Cohen; evaluation of the symptomatic HIV infected patient, Janine R. Maenza; bone and joint; septic arthritis and bursitis, Ellis H. Tobin and Eric Brescher; osteomyelitis,Keith Collins; diabetic foot infections, Christopher Grace and Michael Ricci; geographic exposure; tick-borne infections, Robert Smith; endemic fungal and viral infections, Harold M. Henderson; common manifestations of parasitic infections, Sampath Kumarand Gordon M. Trenholme. Infections in special hosts: the pregnant patient, Mary-Margaret Andrews; the immune compromised patient, Robert W. Lyons; infections in the injection drug user, Audrey L. French; infections in the dialysis patient, MichaelBerkoben; infections in the patient with animal contact, Anthony L. Esposito and George Abraham; the patient with fatigue, Irving E. Salit; the patient with Epstein Barr virus infection and infectious mononucleosis-like illnesses, Irving E. Salit;evaluation of the international traveller, Beth D. Kirkpatrick; the patient living in a nursing home, Henry S. Sacks. Health maintenance: post-exposure prophylaxis, Judith L. Steinberg; adult immunizations, W. Kemper Alston; bioterrorism, ChristopherGrace.