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Taylor & Francis Diagnostic Microbiology Of The Immunocompromised 2Nd Edition by Donna M Wolk and Randall T Hayden and Karen C Carroll and Yi-Wei Tang
Advances in cancer therapy and transplantation are increasing the numbers of immunocompromised patients throughout the world. This comprehensive review presents state-of-the-art diagnostics for infectious complications in the immunocompromised patients. Providing complementary views of often complex diagnostic challenges, the new edition presents topics such as host biology and antineoplastic and transplantation techniques; the basis of immunosuppressive conditions ranging from diabetes to age-related immunosuppression; the approach, interpretation, and limitations of the laboratory diagnosis of infections caused by a wide range of etiologic agents; laboratory diagnosis of infections of organ systems, such as respiratory tract, gastrointestinal tract, and central nervous system; and, diagnostic aspects of prosthetic devices and catheters, healthcare-acquired infections, and morphologic considerations (anatomic pathology). New sections discuss tissue pathology, HIV, hepatitis viruses, papilloma and polyoma viruses, and aerobic and anaerobic bacteriology. This book will inform laboratory medicine specialists, pathologists, technologists, students, and clinical care professionals who are involved or interested in the care of patients who are immunocompromised.