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Thoroughly updated and expanded, the second edition of Neonatal Infections is intended as a quick-reference guide for the busy clinician caring for newborns and young infants, whether in the nursery, the ward, the clinic, or the intensive care unit. It covers infections acquired during birth or while in the hospital (Part 1), as well as congenital infections acquired in utero (Part 2). Summary chapters regarding infection control and prevention, outbreak management, diagnosis of infection, antibiotic stewardship, and immunizations are also included (Part 3).
Neonatal Infections is a concise yet thorough and visual handbook for infectious disease specialists, neonatologists, pediatricians, family practitioners, medical students, hospitalists, nurses, and all clinicians caring for infants in the nursery or neonatal intensive care unit.
List of contents
Part I.- Early Onset Sepsis.- Late Onset Sepsis.- Necrotizing Enterocolitis.- Candida.- Neonatal conjunctivitis.- Respiratory Viruses in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.- Part II.- Pathogenesis of congenital infections.- Chagas disease.- Cytomegalovirus infection.- Enteroviruses.- Hepatitis B in the Perinatal Period.- Hepatitis C.- Neonatal Herpes Simplex Virus Infection.- Management of HIV-Exposed infants.- Human Papillomavirus.- Lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus.- Malaria.- Parvovirus.- Rubella.- Congenital Syphilis.- Tick-borne infections.- Toxoplasmosis.- Tuberculosis in the Neonate.- Ureaplasma.- Varicella in the Peripartum Period.- Zika virus.- Part III.- Principles of Infection Prevention in the Nursery.- Outbreak Control in the Nursery.- Sepsis Diagnostics.- Antibiotic Stewardship.- Immunizations in the Nursery.
Summary
Thoroughly updated and expanded, the second edition of Neonatal Infections is intended as a quick-reference guide for the busy clinician caring for newborns and young infants, whether in the nursery, the ward, the clinic, or the intensive care unit. It covers infections acquired during birth or while in the hospital (Part 1), as well as congenital infections acquired in utero (Part 2). Summary chapters regarding infection control and prevention, outbreak management, diagnosis of infection, antibiotic stewardship, and immunizations are also included (Part 3).
Neonatal Infections is a concise yet thorough and visual handbook for infectious disease specialists, neonatologists, pediatricians, family practitioners, medical students, hospitalists, nurses, and all clinicians caring for infants in the nursery or neonatal intensive care unit.
