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Free Download Emerging Paradigms for Antibiotic-Resistant Infections: Beyond the Pill
English | 2024 | ISBN: 981975271X | 1490 Pages | EPUB (True) | 49 MB
This book delves into antibiotic resistance, offering insights into its emergence, mechanisms, and impact on global health. The book also scrutinizes over-prescription, agricultural use, and the scarcity of new drug development, while spotlighting the role of globalization in its propagation. It moves beyond conventional approaches, examining alternative strategies like phage therapy, immunotherapy, and nanotechnology. Highlighting precision diagnostics and the importance of policy implications, it navigates through public health strategies, surveillance, and international collaborations. Finally, it glimpses into the future, delineating the challenges, opportunities, and the urgency of action required to steer away from a post-antibiotic era. This book serves as an invaluable resource for students, researchers, and scientists in the fields of medicine, pharmacy, microbiology, and public health.

Free Download Manal M. Baddour, "Mrsa Infections and Treatment"
English | ISBN: 1616680385 | 2013 | 128 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Incidents of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) have been prominent in the news over the past few years, drawing attention to a type of infection that is resistant to certain antibiotics. Staphylococcus aureus has three features that make it distinct among most other clinically important bacteria. Not only do MRSA infections lead to higher lengths of stay and more cost then MSSA infections, but more importantly, MRSA infections lead to a higher mortality. MRSA is no longer confined to hospitals and hospital-attending people, it has now vigorously invaded recreational, rehabilitation, sporting and teaching facilities.

Free Download Infections of the Ears, Nose, Throat, and Sinuses
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031684486 | 537 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 111 MB
The 35 chapters have been contributed by otolaryngologists and infectious disease specialists who are experts in the field. Topics include common infections such as otitis media, otitis externa, pharyngitis, laryngitis, and acute bacterial sinusitis as well as less common infections such as mumps, scrofula, malignant otitis externa, Lemierre’s syndrome, invasive fungal sinusitis, cervical lymphadenitis, and deep neck infections. Chronic sinusitis, antibiotic-resistant infections, labyrinthitis, human papillomavirus-related neoplasms, osteoradionecrosis of the mandible, and dental and oral cavity infections are also discussed. A newly added section addresses COVID-19 in otolaryngology, including infection prevention measures, upper respiratory tract manifestations, and the chronic loss of taste and smell that may follow the acute viral infection.

Free Download Kevin D. Freeman-Cook, "Staphylococcus Aureus Infections (Deadly Diseases and Epidemics)"
English | 2005 | pages: 183 | ISBN: 0791085082 | PDF | 2,6 mb
Staph bacteria can live harmlessly on many skin surfaces. However, if the skin is punctured or broken, it can enter the body and cause infections.

Free Download Peter D. Walzer, Robert M. Genta, "Parasitic Infections in the Compromised Host (Infectious Disease and Therapy)"
English | 1988 | pages: 552 | ISBN: 0824779436 | PDF | 68,6 mb
The first in a new series created to acknowledge the explosion of knowledge in fields related to infectious disesases and clinical microbiology. Thirteen contributions focus on organisms which are of major medical importance in this country or which have contributed to an understanding of pathology.

Free Download Raimo E. Suhonen, Rodney P.R. Dawber, David H. Ellis, "Fungal Infections of the Skin and Nails"
English | 2019 | pages: 141 | ISBN: 0367399733, 1853175897 | PDF | 514,7 mb
This concise, comprehensive guide is divided into two sections; nails and the skin. Each section includes information on the types of infections, aetiology, diagnostic procedures, such as sampling techniques, and therapy, including topical, systemic and adjunctive.

Free Download Central Nervous System Infections, an Issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics
by Cynthia Bautista
English | 2024 | ISBN: 9798891136601 | 269 pages | True PDF | 12.21 MB

Free Download I.W. Fong, "Infections and the Cardiovascular System: New Perspectives"
English | 2003 | pages: 275 | ISBN: 1475777868, 0306474042 | PDF | 10,2 mb
Infectious agents have been recognized to involve the heart and vascular system for well over a century. Traditional concepts and teachings of their involvement in the pathogenesis of disease have been by a few established mechanisms. Since the last decade of the 20th century there has been renewed interest in the medical and public media on infectious diseases affecting the cardiovascular and cerebrovascular systems, through their relationship with the development of acceleration of atherosclerosis. This volume highlights and reviews new perspectives of infections on the cardiovascular system as never before. It is a truly valuable resource for scientists, researchers, residents, and fellows in the fields of infectious disease, cardiology, and microbiology.

Free Download Yichen Lu, Max Essex, "Emerging Infections in Asia"
English | 2008 | pages: 255 | ISBN: 038775721X, 1441945415 | PDF | 4,7 mb
With many Asian countries experiencing increasing economic growth and globalization, infectious diseases that were once contained in certain pockets of the continent now proliferate throughout its geographical area. It is the alarming prospect of unchecked epidemics that makes this book so crucial. The chapters cover the historical description of infectious diseases, analyze the causes of them and even forecast outbreaks, as well as the regional and global impact of these diseases. There is a pressing need for public health professionals worldwide to know and understand the variety of these infections, the methods through which they are transmitted, and the ways to control and prevent them. This comprehensive text offers them just that.

Free Download Viral and Fungal Infections of the Central Nervous System: A Microbiological Perspective
English | 2023 | ISBN: 981996444X | 482 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 31 MB
The first section provides the reader with valuable insights into the aetiologies and underlying pathophysiological mechanisms of neurological diseases, including host responses. It mentions all bacterial, fungal, parasitic, and viral causes of neuro-infections, along with rarer neuropathogenesis such as prions and mycoplasmas. The chapter also presents detailed epidemiology and prevalence of different CNS infections worldwide. It also reviews various infectious diseases that target the nervous system, such as focal lesions, meningitis, and neurological complications of venous sinus thrombosis. The next two sections delve deep into pathogen-specific diseases of the CNS, namely the viruses and fungi associated with neuro-infections. It mentions detailed excerpts on encephalitic viruses, long-term consequences of neurotropic viruses, mycological neuroinfectious, and even the emerging, less talked of viruses and fungi causing neurological disease. Topics such as principles of vigorous antifungal therapy and surgeries are also discussed in the chapter. The fourth section gives an insight on prospects for efficiently diagnosing and managing viral and fungal CNS infections, to tackle associated morbidities.