Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett's Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases E-Book: 2-Volume Set

by John E. Bennett, Raphael Dolin, Martin J. Blaser

For four decades, physicians and other healthcare providers have trusted Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett's Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases to provide expert guidance on the diagnosis and treatment of these complex disorders. The 9th Edition continues the tradition of excellence with newly expanded chapters, increased global coverage, and regular updates to keep you at the forefront of this vitally important field. Meticulously updated by Drs. John E. Bennett, Raphael Dolin, and Martin J. Blaser, this comprehensive, two-volume masterwork puts the latest information on challenging infectious diseases at your fingertips.

Provides more in-depth coverage of epidemiology, etiology, pathology, microbiology, immunology, and treatment of infectious agents than any other infectious disease resource.

Features an increased focus on antibiotic stewardship; new antivirals for influenza, cytomegalovirus, hepatitis C, hepatitis B., and immunizations; and new recommendations for vaccination against infection with pneumococci, papillomaviruses, hepatitis A, and pertussis.

Covers newly recognized enteroviruses causing paralysis (E-A71, E-D68); emerging viral infections such as Ebola, Zika, Marburg, SARS, and MERS; and important updates on prevention and treatment of C. difficile infection, including new tests that diagnose or falsely over-diagnose infectious diseases.

Offers fully revised content on bacterial pathogenesis, antibiotic use and toxicity, the human microbiome and its effects on health and disease, immunological mechanisms and immunodeficiency, and probiotics and alternative approaches to treatment of infectious diseases.

Discusses up-to-date topics such as use of the new PCR panels for diagnosis of meningitis, diarrhea and pneumonia; current management of infected orthopedic implant infections; newly recognized infections transmitted by black-legged ticks in the USA: Borrelia miyamotoi and Powassan virus; infectious complications of new drugs for cancer; new drugs for resistant bacteria and mycobacteria; new guidelines for diagnosis and therapy of HIV infections; and new vaccines against herpes zoster, influenza, meningococci.

PPID continues its tradition of including leading experts from a truly global community, including authors from Australia, Canada and countries in Europe, Asia, and South America. Features more than 1,500 high-quality, full-color photographs—with hundreds new to this edition.

Genres: Medicine

4176 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 28, 1989

About the author

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John Eugene Bennett (1933- ), MD, MACP, FIDSA, Adjunct Professor, Uniformed Services University of Health Science, Bethesda, MD USA.

Dr. Bennett earned his M.D. from The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is a master in the American College of Physicians; a former president of the Infectious Diseases Society of America; the charter president of the Greater Washington Infectious Diseases Society; a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the American Association of Physicians.

Dr. Bennett's primary research interest lies in basic and clinical mycology.

He has received numerous awards and honors.

Reviews

[Lynn · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read the M avium Complex, NTM (non TB mycobacterium), and both HIV sections which was what I wanted from this book
overall really extensive and helpful but do have to dunk on the 12 page virologic summary for HIV early in the book obviously still very well written with some incredible info about what we kno about each of the viral proteins and overall the viral life cycle but never read a chapter more clearly edited by robert gallo lmao
no one else would mention HTLV-I and II so much in a short summary chapter on HIV virology. Especially in a book with two other chapters on those viruses? Quite strange. He also shoehorned in some other history from his own lab (recent technological developments of culturing t cells allowed for discovery of HIV…) and some out of date terms like calling R5-tropic virus macrophage specific? like we don’t already know that in vivo it mainly infects CD4s and also calls it syncytia forming virus.
But other than these nit picky things overall really informative and I’m glad I read it just kinda funny the quirks you can find bc it’s edited by gallo.
The main treatment + immunology + epi chapters for HIV were incredible (and without gallo as an editor interestingly don’t mention htlv once… curious lol) and would recommend this book to anyone who wants to understand a specific infectious disease better.

[Cody Jinnette · Rating 5 out of 5]

Pretty dense but a good read. I thought the organization was good and I really enjoyed some of the subplots you find sprinkled throughout.

[Steven jb · Rating 4 out of 5]

The best Infectious Disease text at the time.