Infectious Diseases Volume 1: Non-parasitic (eBook)

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Introduction

This book is different from any other similar book currently on the market.

The images are of uniformly high quality, and the text is eminently readable.

It is a good reference text for trainees and practitioners in all fields of Medicine, Nursing, Medical Science, Allied Health.

The subject matter is the result of a professional lifetime from 1960, of collecting data and photographs of the medical records of patients, and the pathology from which they suffered.

The author has had a role in the diagnosis, and often the treatment, of many of the cases.

This increases the authenticity of the book.

Historical anecdotes about the diseases, and the people who described them, are liberally sprinkled throughout the book.

Many of the diseases are presented with photographs of the medical records of the cases used by the doctors to define the diseases. For example:

• Kuru by Carlton Gajdusek, for which he was awarded a Nobel Prize.
• Amoebic meningitis by Malcolm Fowler and Rodney Carter.
• Q fever by Edward Derrick.
• Pigbel by Robin A Cooke.

Most textbooks show only the high magnification view of the organisms. This book shows how the pathologist examines the slides to ‘find’ the organisms.

Diseases that occur in specific areas of the world where they are endemic are illustrated.

Examples of these diseases when they occur in travellers or immigrants in a non-endemic environment. Under these circumstances, the medical practitioners of first contact have had no experience of these diseases, and therefore have difficulty in making a correct diagnosis.

Some technical aspects that have been included by the designer - an index is supplied after the Introduction.

By clicking on the topic to be examined, it immediately takes the reader to the topic.

At the end of the topic there is an icon to click that immediately returns the reader to the index.

There are a few short video clips of moving organisms.

Chapter 01 – Virus infections

• 01 Meningitis
• 02 Molluscum contagiosum
• 03 Cytomegalovirus (CMV)
• 04 Arboviruses
• Dengue virus
• Ross River virus
• Murray Valley encephalitis virus (MVE)
• Japanese B encephalitis
• 05 Yellow fever
• 06 Hepatitis
• Normal liver
• Hepatitis B acute
• Hepatitis B cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC)
• Hepatitis C
• 07 Adenoviruses
• 08 Measles
• 09 Rubella
• 10 Mumps
• 11 Varicella-zoster
• 12 Herpes zoster
• 13 Herpes simplex
• 14 Smallpox
• 15 Human papilloma virus (HPV)
• 16 Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)
• 17 Poliomyelitis
• 18 Rabies
• 19 Australian bat lyssavirus
• Hendra virus
• 20 Influenza
• 21 HIV/AIDS
• 22 SARS
• 23 COVID-19
• 24 Prions
• Cruetzfeldt-jacob disease (CJD)
• Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE – mad cow disease)
• Variant CJD (vCJD)
• Kuru

Chapter 02 – Bacterial infections

• 25 Chlamydia
• 26 Leptospira
• 27 Rickettsia
• 28 Q fever
• 29 Staphylococcus
• 30 Streptococcus
• 31 Neisseria
• 32 Diphtheria
• 33 Listeria
• 34 Haemophilus influenzae
• 35 Klebsiella
• Donovanosis
• Rhinoscleroma
• 36 Helicobacter
• Pylori
• Heilmannii
• 37 Enteric bacteria
• Escherichia coli
• Shigella
• Salmonella typhi
• 38 Yersinia
• 39 Pseudomonas aeruginosa
• 40 Tuberculosis
• 41 Hansen’s disease
• 42 Atypical mycobacteria
• M. scrofulaceum
• M. ulcerans
• M. marinum
• M. avium-intracellularae complex
• 43 Clostridium
• 44 Treponema
• Syphilis
• Yaws
• Spirochaetosis
• 45 Bacillus
• 46 Brucella
• 47 Lyme disease
• 48 Melioidosis
• 49 Vibrio
• Vibrio cholerae
• Vibrio vulnificus

Chapter 03 – Fungal infections

• 50 Dermatophytes
• 51 Candida
• 52 Chromoblastomycosis
• 53 Sporotrichosis
• 54 Actinomyces
• 55 Histoplasma
• 56 Aspergillus
• 57 Mucor
• 58 Cryptococcus
• 59 Coccidioides
• 60 Rhinosporidium
• 61 North American Blastomycosis
• 62 South American Blastomycosis
• 63 Conidiobolus
• 64 Pneumocystis

Chapter 04 – Ectoparasites and venomous marine animals

• Millipedes
• Spiders
• Scabies
• Ticks
• Box jellyfish – Chironex fleckeri
• Fly – Musca domestica – maggots
• Fly – Dermatobia hominis
• Flea – Tunga penetrans
• Lice – Pediculosis pubis
• Lice – Pediculosis corporis
• Bug – Triatoma braziliensis

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