Clinic Consult Pediatrics: Typhoid

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-93-5270-707-2
Verlag: JP Medical

Buch, Englisch, 72 Seiten, Format (B × H): 114 mm x 178 mm

Typhoid is a bacterial infection caused by a specific type of Salmonella that causes mild to severe symptoms such as fever, headache, confusion, abdominal pain and constipation. The infection can spread throughout the body affecting many organs, and without prompt treatment, can cause serious complications and may also be fatal.

Part of the Clinic Consult series, this book is a concise guide to the diagnosis and treatment of typhoid in children.

Divided into eight sections, the text provides step by step guidance through epidemiology, pathogenesis, clinical features, complications, investigations, treatment, prevention, and vaccines.

This practical manual places emphasis on diagnostic modalities and includes discussion on the treatment of drug resistant typhoid fever.

Key points

- Practical guide to diagnosis and management of typhoid in children

- Emphasis on diagnostic modalities

- Includes discussion on treatment of drug resistant typhoid fever

- Part of Clinic Consult series

Autoren/Hrsg.

Choudhury, Jaydeep

Kundu, Ritabrata

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Pädiatrie, Neonatologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Epidemiology

- Pathogenesis

- Clinical Features

- Complications

- Investigations

- Treatment

- Prevention

- Vaccines

Über Autor(innen)

Jaydeep Choudhury DNB MNAMS FIAP

Professor

Ritabrata Kundu MD FIAP

Professor

Both at Department of Paediatrics, Institute of Child Health, Kolkata, West Bengal, India