Emerging Issues and Controversies in Infectious Disease

This new volume of the "Emerging Infectious Diseases of the 21st Century" series is an up to date, state-of-the-art review on several important infections challenging clinicians, from the general practitioner to the various subspecialists that deals with infections.

Topics were chosen to address new emerging issues and controversies in clinical infectious Disease:

Issues in Central nervous System Infections
Emerging issues in Head & Neck Infections
Current issues in Ventilator-associated pneumonia
Emerging issues in Pulmonary infections of Cystic fibrosis
Re-emergence of childhood respiratory infections in adults
New Concepts & emerging issues in sepsis
Febrile neutropenia: management issues
Emerging issues & trend in Clostriduim difficile colitis
Probiotics in Infections Disease
Device Related Infections
Current concepts of orthopedic implants and prosthetic joint infections
Combination antimicrobial therapies