A Practical Guide to Clinical Virology - Softcover

 
9780471919780: A Practical Guide to Clinical Virology

Synopsis

This pocket-sized handbook attempts to meet the need for condensed and readily accessible information about viruses as agents of human disease. It represents the development of a Norwegian handbook of clinical virology previously compiled by the same editors.

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From the Back Cover

This new Edition of A Practical Guide to Clinical Virology has been thoroughly updated and is a practical, highly illustrated, quick reference guide to clinical virology. It brings together the essentials of the subject in a entertaining and informative style, describing in turn the clinical features, the symptoms and signs of each of the viral diseases, as well as summarising the epidemiology, laboratory diagnosis and therapy in each case. This book also includes general chapters such as classification, diagnosis of infection, antiviral drugs, vaccines and different clinical syndromes.

Features include:
∗ hapter summaries for quick reference

∗ Cartoon illustrations

∗ New chapters on
Human Herpes Virus 6
Hepatitis C
Hepatitis E
Emerging Viruses
Polyoma viruses

∗ Comprehensive coverage

∗ Clear and concise format
Each chapter is easy to read and well organised, ensuring that this is an invaluable textbook for all medical, biomedical, microbiology and applied biology students. In addition, it will provide an excellent reference for nurses, occupational health and infection control departments, public health and diagnostic laboratories.

Synopsis

This pocket-sized handbook attempts to meet the need for condensed and readily accessible information about viruses as agents of human disease. It represents the development of a Norwegian handbook of clinical virology previously compiled by the same editors.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.