Infectious Diseases - Tapa dura

From the world's leading experts in infectious disease - a comprehensive, clinically-oriented textbook lavishly illustrated with over 2,200 color photographs, artwork, tables and maps. INFECTIOUS DISEASES features two volumes organized into eight sections: Introduction to Infectious Diseases, Syndromes by Body System, Special Problems in Infectious Disease Practice, Infections in the Immunocompromised Host, HIV and AIDS, Geographic and Travel Medicine, Anti-Infective Therapy and Clinical Microbiology.

Donald Armstrong is an immensely experienced and well-respected clinician and teacher, now sem
-retired but still working part-time in the busy setting of Memorial Sloan-Kettering in New York City, wher he is Chief of the ID service. Known especially for his work on AIDS and the immunocompromised host, he is Past President of the Infectious Disease Society of America.

Jonathan Cohen is one of the few Professors of ID in the UK. Extremely dynamic, he is the founder member and Chairman of the Clinical Infection Society and is internationally respected for his work on sepsis.

Both Lead Editors have worked extensively outside their native countries, Donald Armstrong in China and Thailand, Jonathan Cohen in the USA.