Editors: Resat Ozaras , Joop E. Arends 2019 Although a jaundice-like clinical disease patron was known already for centuries after its early descriptions by Hippocrates (Trepo et al. Liver Int. 2014 Feb;34 Suppl 1:29–37), its causative agents remained quite a mystery. The infectious origin was recognized through its epidemic form as opposed to the more recent […]

Editor Elisabeth Presterl 2019 Invasive fungal infections are rare but life-threatening disease for severely ill patients. Due to perpetually improving healthcare, there are life-saving and life-improving therapies for many hemato-oncological diseases, organ transplantation, advanced supportive intensive care, and new techniques making most complicated surgical interventions possible. However, all these patients are at risk for developing invasive […]

Editor Joseph Domachowske 2019 The most authoritative infectious disease medical textbooks, some in their 8th or 9th edition, can be found on the bookshelves of nearly every infectious disease physician currently in practice. They are written, updated and edited by world experts in the field and include thousands of pages of details on everything from […]

Editors: Merle Myerson, Marshall J. Glesby 2019

Dorothee Heemskerk • Maxine Caws Ben Marais • Jeremy Farrar 2015 This monograph is written for healthcare workers in any setting who are faced with the complex care for patients with tuberculosis. Prevention, diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis are fraught with challenges that are often reflective of problems in society as a whole. Significant progress has been made […]

Nicholas S. Ward • Mitchell M. Levy Editors 2017 Sepsis is a disease syndrome that is difficult to understand as well as to treat and has plagued mankind for thousands of years. In this textbook, the editors and authors sought to assemble relatively brief but detailed compilations of what is the state of the science on a variety […]

W. Joost Wiersinga Christopher W. Seymour Editors 2018 Sepsis is one of the most common deadly diseases. Despite its remarkable incidence, and despite the progress which has been made in understanding this complex syndrome, for both clinicians at the bedside and scientists at the bench many key questions remain unanswered. In order to address this unmet need, we now […]