Atlas of the Clinical Microbiology of Infectious Diseases Volume 2 covers typical and atypical presentations of viral, fungal and parasitic agents and offers insightful comments aiding their identification and clinical significance.

Features:

• Presents clinical microbiology photographs of a range of bacterial, viral, parasitic, and fungal agents augmented with many photographs of patient presentation
• Provides visual images derived from an extensive personal collection of slides depicting the salient and unusual presentations of microorganisms encountered in clinical microbiology and infectious diseases
• Draws on the expertise of a distinguished clinical microbiologist
• Includes coverage of newly described microbial agents and their identifying characteristics

Contents

Viruses

1. Herpesviruses

Parasites

2. Leishmania, Trypanosoma and Toxoplasma
3. Pneumocystis
4. Plasmodium (malaria)
5. Babesia
6. Intestinal protozoa: amoeba
7. Flagellates
8. Trichomonas and ciliates
9. Free-living amoebae
10. Microsporidia and Coccidia

Helminths

11. Nematodes (intestinal)
12. Hookworms
13. Nematodes (tissue)
14. Filarial (tissue) nematodes
15. Cestodes (tapeworms)
16. Trematodes (flukes)

Mycology

17. Yeasts
18. Dermatophytes
19. Opportunistic filamentous fungi
20. Dimorphic fungi
21. Miscellaneous fungi and algae

Index

See also:
Atlas of the Clinical Microbiology of Infectious Diseases Volume One: Bacterial Agents

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