This textbook provides a detailed overview of a range of topics necessary for understanding infectious diseases on a framework for educating healthcare providers at all levels and all medical specialties. Primarily aimed to offer important backgrounds on regional disease epidemiology, pathogenesis, social, and ethical aspects of disease control through the use of specific antimicrobial agents and preventive vaccines. This book is an effective tool for infectious disease physicians, internists, and all other clinicians who wish to practice evidence-based medicine. Different aspects of infectious disease are addressed and each chapter begins with an annotation of key terms, and definitions and finishes with a concrete summary, using bullet points. The excellent tables and illustrative figures in each chapter are presented with useful proactive diagnostic essentials including nonculture-based molecular advances for early diagnosis and appropriate management. Thirty different chapters are dealt with subject matters on antibiotic uses, vaccine prevention strategies for all ages, and disease transmission control in-hospital care environments.

• The second edition provides a wealth of timely information and an up-to-date overview of the commonly encountered infectious diseases in clinical practice.

• This book includes material on the most important newly emerging and re-emerging diseases.

• Each chapter is amply illustrated with photographs and figures provide unparalleled visual guidance.

• Contains summarizing referenced tables with differential diagnosis, laboratory diagnosis, and treatment aspects.

• Valuable appendices provide cross-reference information for each of the bacterial, viral, fungal, and parasitic diseases.