Infection Control in the Immunocompromised Host - Hardcover

9783894122003: Infection Control in the Immunocompromised Host

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3894122005 ISBN 13: 9783894122003

Publisher: Wiley–Blackwell, 1995

Infection control is one of the major challenges of medicine in the future. The management of infectious diseases adds a substantial burden to the overall health care cost worldwide. Therefore, the prevention of infection is important, especially in view of the increasing number of patients with impaired host defenses due to serious underlying diseases like cancer and HIV infection, who are prone to a multitude of opportunistic infections. In developing countries, even more people are at risk of infectious diseases, and resoures are limited.

This book covers important aspects of infection control in patients with hematologic disorders, with HIV infection and in patients in developing countries.

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Infection control is one of the major challenges of medicine in the future. The management of infectious diseases adds a substantial burden to the overall health care cost world wide. The prevention of infection is therefore important especially in view of the increasing number of patients with impaired host defenses due to serious underlying diseases such as cancer and HIV infection who are prone to a multitude of opportunistic infections. In developing countries, even more people are at risk of infectious diseases, and resoures are limited. This book covers important aspects of infection control in patients with hematologic disorders, with HIV infection and in patients in developing countries.

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