Sexually Transmitted Infections

Zusatztext Review from previous edition It offers patients a refreshingly balanced outlook on the nature! diagnosis and management of infections! especially when compared with much information available on the Internet. I am sure it would be equally useful to non-specialists who may not always grasp some of the subtleties and uncertainties that exist in the management of sexually transmitted infections and related conditions. Informationen zum Autor David Barlow read medicine at Trinity College, Oxford, and St Thomas's Hospital Medical School. Following training in acute and general medicine, he focused on genitourinary medicine (venereology) and is currently the Senior Physician in this specialty at St Thomas' and Guy's Hospitals.Julie Fox is Consultant Physician at the Department of Genitourinary Medicine, Guys and St. Thomas Foundation Trust, London, UK. Klappentext This book provides essential information on all the main forms of sexually transmitted infections! describing the causes! risks! treatments! and most importantly! how they can be prevented. Written by a leading authority! the book delivers essential! accessible! pragmatic! information that should be read by all adults. Zusammenfassung This book provides essential information on all the main forms of sexually transmitted infections, describing the causes, risks, treatments, and most importantly, how they can be prevented. Written by a leading authority, the book delivers essential, accessible, pragmatic, information that should be read by all adults. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface ; 1. Sexually transmitted infections - what to do ; 2. Understanding your results ; 3. Vaginal discharge and vulval problems ; 4. Gonorrhoea ; 5. Non-specific genital infection ; 6. Non-specific genital infection - complications ; 7. Genital herpes ; 8. Genital warts ; 9. Syphilis and related diseases ; 10. Tropical and other infections ; 11. Hepatitis and other viral infections ; 12. HIV and AIDS - the whys and wherefores ; 13. HIV and AIDS - the clinical picture ...

Product details

• Authors: David Barlow, David (Consultant Physician Barlow, Barlow David, Julie Fox, Julie (Consultant Physician Fox, Fox Julie
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2011
• EAN: 9780199595655
• ISBN: 978-0-19-959565-5
• No. of pages: 134
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 203 mm x 6 mm
• Series: The Facts; The Facts
• Subjects: Fiction; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; HEALTH & FITNESS / General, General practice, MEDICAL / Infectious Diseases, MEDICAL / Practice Management & Reimbursement, MEDICAL / AIDS & HIV, Popular medicine & health, General Practice / Family Medicine, Popular medicine and health, Venereal Diseases, HIV / AIDS, Medicine: HIV/AIDS, retroviral diseases, Sexually transmitted infections / Venereal diseases