Respiratory infections : diagnosis and management /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Pennington, James
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Raven Press, [1994]
Edition:Third edition.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Normal and defective respiratory host defenses / Herbert Y. Reynolds
  • Bacterial colonization of the respiratory tract: clinical significance / Donald E. Woods
  • Pulmonary clearance of infectious agents / Galen B. Toews
  • Noninvasive diagnostic techniques for lower respiratory infections / John A. Washington
  • Invasive diagnostic techniques in pulmonary infections / John G. Bartlett
  • Upper respiratory tract infections: the common cold, pharyngitis, droup, bacterial tracheitis and epiglottis / Caroline Breese Hall, John T. McBride
  • Acute and chronic sinusitis / Birgit Winther, Jack M. Gwaltney, Jr.
  • Otitis media / Jerome O. Klein
  • Chronic bronchitis / Anthony A. Floreani ... [et al.]
  • Community-acquired pneumonia and acute bronchitis / James E. Pennington
  • Hospital-acquired pneumonia / James E. Pennington
  • Infections of the lower respiratory tract in infancy and early childhood / Hugh E. Evans, Nelson L. Turcios
  • Pneumonia in the elderly / Anthony L. Esposito
  • Pneumonia in the immunocompromised host / Christopher H. Fanta, James E. Pennington.
  • (cont) Diagnosis and therapy of pulmonary disease in patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus / Jeffrey R. Dichter, Anthony F. Suffredini, Henry Masur
  • Aspriation pneumonia, lung abscess and empyema / Sydney M. Finegold
  • Pulmonary infections in cystic fibrosis: pathogenesis and therapy / Stephen A. Chartrand, Melvin I. Marks
  • Gram-positive pneumonia / Barry M. Farr, Gerald L. Mandell
  • Gram-negative bacillary pneumonias / Janice Eisenstadt, Lawrence R. Crane
  • Atypical pneumonias / Carmelita U. Tuazon, Henry W. Murray
  • Hemophilus influenza pneumonia / Arnold L. Smith
  • Legionella pneumonias / Paul H. Edelstein, Richard D. Meyer
  • Unusual bacterial pneumonias caused by human commensal, environmental and animal-associated pathogens / Arnold N. Weinberg, Howard M. Heller
  • Viral pneumonia / Robert S. Kauffman
  • Opportunistic fungal pneumonias: Aspergillus, Mucor, Candida, Torulopsis / James E. Pennington
  • Cryptococcus neoformans pneumonia / Richard D. Diamond, Stuart M. Levitz
  • Coccidioidal pneumonia / David J. Drutz
  • Histoplasma capsulatum pneumonia / Scott F. Davies.
  • (cont) Blastomyces dermatitidis pneumonia / Scott F. Davies
  • Pneumonia due to Actinomyces, Propionibacterium (Arachnia) propionicum and Nocardia / Phillip I. Lerner
  • Pulmonary tuberculosis / Bonita T. Mangura, Lee B. Reichman
  • Lung disease caused by nontuberculous mycobacteria / David E. Griffith, Richard J. Wallace, Jr.
  • Pneumocystis carinii / Lowell S. Young
  • Parasitic pneumonias / Peter F. Weller
  • Pharmacokinetics of antibiotics in respiratory tissues and fluids / Eugenie Bergogne-Berezin, Eric Vallee
  • Local antibiotic therapy for bronchopulmonary infections / Jean Pierre Thys, Mickael Aoun, Jean Klastersky
  • Rational use of new antibiotics in respiratory infections / Hartmut Lode, Berndt Kemmerich.