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Recommended Books on Meningitis
Meningococcal Disease (Methods in Molecular Medicine) (Methods in Molecular Medicine) Andrew Pollard and Martin Maiden bring together a panel of leading authorities to produce a comprehensive, interdisciplinary survey of recent advances and knowledge about meneigococcal disease. The review and methods-based chapters collected here provide essential information for diagnosis in the clinical microbiology laboratory, isolate characterization, clinical management, and control of meningococcal disease. They also examine the immunopathological mechanisms occurring in the acutely ill, host-pathogen interactions, and the possible components of meningococcus responsible for virulence. Meningococcal Disease: Methods and Protocols integrates the basic science, clinical, and epidemiological aspects of this terrible infectious disease to promote the deeper understanding needed to identify novel targets for therapeutic interventions and vaccines.
Up and Running: The Inspiring True Story of a Boy's Struggle to Survive and Triumph On the night of July 3, 1996, Andrew Bateson watched holiday fireworks with his family. Twelve hours later, he lay in a coma, stricken with bacterial meningitisone of the fastest moving of all infections. Over the next three weeks the hospital fought an often minute-by-minute battle to keep him alive. Guided by a remarkable team of doctors, the staff ultimately defeated the disease, but with a cost: Andrew lost both his legs below the knees, and there are questions whether hell ever have use of his hands. But UP AND RUNNING is a story about comebacks: Its about a family that at first loses faithsometimes angrily sothen uses faith to will their child to live; about parents who, toward the storys end, return from an unraveling marriage to a solid one which they consecrate by having a new baby in midlife; and about a boy who wakes from a coma without legs and learns to live a normal life.
Viral meningitis and encephalitis: Medicine Medicine is a continually updated, evidence based review journal covering internal medicine and its subspecialties. Medicine has an outstanding Editorial Board, plus an eminent group of 35 Chapter editors and over 750 authors, all of whom are recognized experts in their field. This article offers four pages of current and comprehensive information about viral meningitis and encephalitis.
Bacterial Meningitis MCP Habenmann Univ., Philadelphia, PA. An overview of the current knowledge on bacterial meningitis related to epidemiology, etiology, pathogenesis, pathophysiology, clinical features, diagnosis, therapy and prevention. Provides a clinically-oriented approach to the disorder, for primary care and emergency medicine clinicians. DNLM: Meningitis, Bacterial.
Bacterial Meningitis - A Medical Dictionary, Bibliography, and Annotated Research Guide to Internet References This is a 3-in-1 reference book. It gives a complete medical dictionary covering hundreds of terms and expressions relating to bacterial meningitis. It also gives extensive lists of bibliographic citations. Finally, it provides information to users on how to update their knowledge using various Internet resources. The book is designed for physicians, medical students preparing for Board examinations, medical researchers, and patients who want to become familiar with research dedicated to bacterial meningitis. If your time is valuable, this book is for you. First, you will not waste time searching the Internet while missing a lot of relevant information. Second, the book also saves you time indexing and defining entries. Finally, you will not waste time and money printing hundreds of web pages.This is a 3-in-1 reference book. It gives a complete medical dictionary covering hundreds of terms and expressions relating to bacterial meningitis. It also gives extensive lists of bibliographic citations. Finally, it provides information to users on how to update their knowledge using various Internet resources. The book is designed for physicians, medical students preparing for Board examinations, medical researchers, and patients who want to become familiar with research dedicated to bacterial meningitis. If your time is valuable, this book is for you. First, you will not waste time searching the Internet while missing a lot of relevant information. Second, the book also saves you time indexing and defining entries. Finally, you will not waste time and money printing hundreds of web pages.
Feather: A Child's Death and Life With great tenderness, poet and critic Robert Peters recalls the brief life and sudden death of his son Richard, a four-year-old called Feather by his sister Meredith and brother Rob. Feather returns home ill one day from nursery school, spends the afternoon in bed with his father and his stuffed toy seal, and dies that evening. Looking back after decades on that February day in 1960, when the skinned knees, colds, and fevers of childhood were obliterated by the unthinkablefatal meningitisPeters sees with harrowing clarity the image of that little boy in the tugboat pajamas lying still on a gurney, one bare foot visible at the edge of the sheet. He recalls his anger, his confusion: What shall I do with my hands? Feather: A Childs Death and Life is an album of poetic and sometimes visceral snapshots: portraits of a family, a house, a strained marriage, a father reading poems to his children, a young academic struggling to establish himself, Peters catches his family in moments of almost transcendent joy and crushing grief. The childrens happiness on Christmas morning, in summer at a Canadian lake, or ice skating is shadowed by lessons in accepting death: a succession of pet turtles, mice, and goldfish succumb; Dad butchers the Thanksgiving turkey, nicknamed Gobble, in the snowy backyard. The fourth book in Robert Peters series of memoirs, Feather not only illuminates the lives of father and child, but also reflects a moment in the life of a writer, as Peters grief for his son finds expression in his first collection of poetry, Songs for a Son.
From reviews of Robert Peters previous memoir, For You, Lili Marlene Readers encountering this chapter of Peters life will want to seek out his other memoirs and will eagerly await the next installment.Library Journal Lush recollections.Milwaukee Journal Sentinel An elegantly written memoir.Publishers Weekly
One Step at a Time "One Step at a Time" is a book, keepsake and guide for coping with a child's hospitalization. It offers a unique way for a parent to ask the right questions, record important medical information, and express joy, fear and hope during a very difficult time. And most important, it encourages parents to take care of themselves physically, emotionally and spiritually.
Neonatal Meningitis (Clinics in Developmental Medicine (Mac Keith Press)) Meningitis is an uncommon but serious illness at any age, and during the first few weeks of life it poses a particular hazard with high mortality and a considerable risk to survivors of permanent damage to the developing brain. This book comprehensively reviews bacterial, fungal and viral forms of the illness. Epidemiology and comparisons of maternally and environmentally derived infections are included, along with a view of the developing brain and host defence mechanisms. A review of experimental bacterial meningitis is provided, together with a discussion of its relevance for clinical and laboratory diagnosis, and for antimicrobial and supportive management. Prospects for the future in terms of early diagnosis, management and prevention are also addressed. In its collation of material from such a wide range of literature sources, this is a vital reference for all clinicians with an interest in the problems of meningitis in early life.
Handbook of Meningococcal Disease: Infection Biology, Vaccination, Clinical Management A comprehensive overview of recent advances, from current basic research and epidemiology, to novel therapeutic strategies and clinical management. Here, the leading scientists who have made major advances in the field provide up-to-date reviews and describe their current knowledge and concepts.
As such, this is the first volume to summarize the implications of the meningococcus genome-sequencing project, emphasizing the novel strategies in vaccine development. Following a look at the history, the authors go on to treat the epidemiology of meningococcal disease, as well as the genetics, structure and function of virulence factors. Further chapters cover cross-talk between meningococci and host cells, genomics and immunobiology.
The result is a standard handbook for all scientists working in the field. While aimed at advanced specialists in basic research, epidemiologists, public health workers, vaccine developers and clinicians, the book is equally appropriate as introductory reading for graduates embarking on their career in this field.
Meningitis: 100 Maxims (100 Maxims in Neurology, 4) Meningitis is one of the most devastating central nervous infections in infants, children, and adults. Time is of the essence when dealing with these patients; early treatment improves not only chances for survival but the neurological outcome as well. Meningitis, a new volume in the 100
Maxims in Neurology series, offers practitioners 100 integral principles to help them in the diagnosis, treatment, and pathophysiology of the disease. This new book, unique in its concise yet complete approach, covers all forms of meningitis in two main sections. The first provides a concise,
up-to-date review of the diagnosis and management of bacterial meningitis and the possible neurological complications which accompany this condition. The second part is dedicated to infectious and non-infectious aseptic meningitis, fungal, tuberculous, syphilitic, and carcinomatous meningitis. The
interpretation of cerebrospinal fluid abnormalities is emphasized throughout for diagnosis and as an aid in determining the response to therapy. The 100 maxims contained in this practical review will be invaluable to neurologists, neurosurgeons, pediatricians, and infectious disease
specialists.
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