Author: Parthasarathy A, Kundu Ritabrata, Agrawal Rohit, Choudhury Jaydeep, Shastri Digant D, Yewale Vijay N, Shah Abhay K, Uttam Kheya Ghosh

This Textbook of Pediatric Infectious Diseases has been designed to be useful to both students and practicing pediatricians. This book includes the common bacterial infections, infections associated with different organ systems and tropical infectious diseases. Emphasis has been given to include those infections which are re-emerging causing considerable mortality and morbidity. The book provides an outline about the mechanism of different types of infections and drug resistance with precautions to be taken both in hospital and office practice to prevent infection. A section has been devoted to basic investigation for the diagnosis of infectious diseases. General topics like infections without focus and those associated with rashes have been included. Besides individual infectious diseases, taken care to include healthcare associated infections and infections in immunocompromised. A section has also been devoted to vaccines, which play a very important role in the prevention of infection. The guidelines on vaccine storage and handling will be of help in office practice. Immunization, in all its aspects particularly in immunocompromised children, has been well depicted in this book. Future vaccines in this book give an idea about the research activities, which are currently in progress. This book will be very useful for clinicians in their day-to-day practice and will be a useful tool in solving their problems related to various childhood infections.

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