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Clinical Approach to Infection in the Compromised Host by Lowell S. Young, Robert H. Rubin (auth.), Robert H. Rubin M.D., Lowell S. Young M.D. (eds.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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"Infection in the Compromised Host" has become a classic chapter in textbooks devoted to infectious diseases and internal medicine. The numbers of compromised hosts are increasing in the era of modem medicine because of our expanded capabilities to deal with difficult diseases, especially neoplasms. As a consequence, microbiologic complications related to the intensive care administered to these patients are increasing as well. Under these circum stances, not only does the underlying illness create conditions favorable for the development of unusual infections, but often the therapy contributes to the acquisition of potential pathogens that turn into agents responsible for severe and frequently fatal disease. Granulocytopenia and immunosuppression have been the two key fac tors in predisposing patients with cancer and other serious diseases to severe bacterial infections. Colonization by hospital-acquired pathogens and breaks in the anatomic barriers-as a result of disease or medical intervention-have contributed to the high incidence of infectious diseases in these patients. Although there is some overlap between the types of infection in granulocytopenic and immunosuppressed host

Who reads Clinical Approach to Infection in the Compromised Host?

Author

Lowell S. Young, Robert H. Rubin (auth.), Robert H. Rubin M.D., Lowell S. Young M.D. (eds.)

Publisher

Springer US : Imprint : Springer

Published

1988

Language

EN

ISBN

9781461566458

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Medical, Medicine