Clinically Relevant Mycoses A Practical Approach /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Presterl, Elisabeth (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Infectious diseases.; Practice of medicine.; Public health.; Critical care medicine.; Infectious Diseases.; Practice and Hospital Management.; Public Health.; Intensive / Critical Care Medicine.

This book describes an evidence-based, practical approach to diagnosis and treatment of the fungal infections most frequently encountered in a general hospital. The opening section provides an easy-to-understand overview of the basic medical and scientific background of fungal infections. Epidemiolo...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• I. General
• What is the target? Clinical mycology and diagnostics
• Immune system and pathogenesis
• Antifungal agents
• II. Clinical disease
• Clinical syndromes - Candida and candidosis
• Clinical syndromes - Aspergillus
• Clinical syndromes: Mucormycosis
• Clinical syndromes:Cryptococcosis
• Clinical syndromes: Rare fungi
• Clinical syndromes - Pneumocystis
• Clinical Relevant Mycoses Dermatomycoses
• III. Special issues
• Infection control to reduce invasive fungal infections
• Paediatric Invasive Fungal infections
• Special issue: Fungal infection in patients with organ transplantation
• Mycotoxins and human disease.