Congenital and Perinatal Infections A Concise Guide to Diagnosis /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hutto, Cecelia (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press, 2006.
• Series: Infectious Disease
• Subjects: Medicine.; Obstetrics.; Medicine & Public Health.; Obstetrics/Perinatology.

Although information about the natural history, management, and outcome of intrauterine and perinatally acquired infections is readily available, the busy clinician requires methods for quickly and easily determining the diagnosis of these infections, especially in a time of ever changing advances i...

Table of Contents:

• The Tools of Diagnosis
• Diagnostic Assays
• Nonserologic Assays for Detection of Bacteria and Other Nonviral Infections
• Diagnosis of Viral Infections by Viral Isolation and Identification or by Direct Detection
• Placental Histopathology
• Diagnosis of Specific Infections
• Herpes Simplex Virus
• Cytomegalovirus
• Epstein-Barr Virus
• Varicella-Zoster Virus
• Human Herpesviruses 6 and 7
• Human Herpesvirus 8
• Rubella
• Parvovirus B19
• Enteroviruses
• Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1
• Hepatitis Viruses
• Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis Virus
• Dengue Virus
• Syphilis
• Group B Streptococcus
• Listeria monocytogenes, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, and Other Bacteria
• Mycobacterium tuberculosis
• Toxoplasma gondii
• Chlamydia trachomatis
• Mycoplasma and Ureaplasma
• Candida
• Malaria.