Synopsis
**Selected for 2025 Doody’s Core Titles® in Pediatrics** Widely considered the premier text in pediatric infectious diseases, Feigin and Cherry's Textbook of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, 9th Edition, provides authoritative, up-to-date coverage of this rapidly changing field. Extensively revised by Drs. James Cherry, Sheldon L. Kaplan, Gail J. Demmler-Harrison, William J. Steinbach, Peter J. Hotez, and new editor John V. Williams, this two-volume reference delivers the information you need on epidemiology, public health, preventive medicine, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, treatment, and much more. It serves as a reliable, everyday resource for practicing ID specialists, and an invaluable reference for medical students, residents, and fellows in ID, pediatricians and internists, and others who work with neonates, children, and adolescents or in public health. Discusses infectious diseases according to organ systems that may be affected, as well as individually by microorganisms, placing emphasis on clinical manifestations that may be related to the organism causing the disease Provides detailed information regarding the best means to establish a diagnosis, explicit recommendations for therapy, and the most appropriate uses of diagnostic imaging Includes expanded information on Q fever, antibiotic resistance and antibiotic agents, human coronaviruses, pox viruses, and infections in the compromised host, and contains new COVID-19 content across numerous chapters Features a new chapter on antimicrobial stewardship, and new coverage of antivirals for pox viruses Reflects today’s more aggressive infectious and antibiotic-resistant organisms as well as emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases Contains hundreds of full-color images (many are new!), including clinical photos, radiographic images, drawings, charts, and graphs Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices. Additional digital ancillary content may publish up to 6 weeks following the publication date
À propos des auteurs
James D. Cherry, MD, MSc is a Distinguished Research Professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital, Division of Infectious Diseases. Dr. Cherry established one of the first formal pediatric infectious disease fellowship programs in the world in 1963 at the University of Wisconsin. In 1973 Dr. Cherry started the first pediatric infectious training program at UCLA. During his 43 years tenure at UCLA, numerous trainees have gone on to be leaders in pediatric infectious diseases in the US and around the world. Dr. Cherry has won many awards during his career.
John V. Williams, MD, a leading expert on respiratory viruses that infect children, is chair of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
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