Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Contributors -- PART I: Systems -- 1. Infective Endocarditis -- INTRODUCTION -- EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PATHOPHYSIOLOGY -- CLINICAL FEATURES -- DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS -- LABORATORY AND RADIOGRAPHIC FINDINGS -- TREATMENT AND PROPHYLAXIS -- COMPLICATIONS AND ADMISSION CRITERIA -- PEARLS AND PITFALLS -- REFERENCES -- 2. Myocarditis and Pericarditis -- INTRODUCTION -- EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PATHOPHYSIOLOGY -- EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PATHOPHYSIOLOGY -- Infectious Causes of Myocarditis -- Noninfectious Causes of Myocarditis -- Infectious Causes of Pericarditis -- CLINICAL FEATURES -- Bacterial Myopericarditis -- Spirochete and Rickettsial Myopericarditis -- Clinical Course of Myocarditis and Pericarditis -- DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS -- LABORATORY AND RADIOGRAPHIC FINDINGS -- TREATMENT -- COMPLICATIONS AND ADMISSION CRITERIA -- PEARLS AND PITFALLS -- REFERENCES -- ADDITIONAL READINGS -- 3. Dental and Odontogenic Infections -- INTRODUCTION -- EPIDEMIOLOGY -- CLINICAL FEATURES -- Dentoalveolar Infections -- Periodontal Infections -- Pericoronitis -- Acute Necrotizing Ulcerative Gingivostomatitis -- Deep Mandibular Space Infections -- DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS -- LABORATORY AND RADIOLOGIC FINDINGS -- TREATMENT AND ADMISSION CRITERIA -- Dentoalveolar Infections -- Periodontal Infections -- Pericoronitis -- Deep Mandibular Space Infections -- COMPLICATIONS -- Loss of Teeth -- Osteomyelitis -- Parapharyngeal Abscess -- Airway Compromise -- PEARLS AND PITFALLS -- REFERENCES -- 4. Systemic Diseases Causing Fever and Rash -- INTRODUCTION - AGENTS -- HISTORY AND PHYSICAL EXAMINATION -- Secondary Syphilis -- Meningococcemia -- Disseminated Gonococcal Infection -- Toxic Shock Syndrome -- RICKETTSIAL INFECTIONS -- Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever -- Lyme Disease -- SYSTEMIC VIRAL INFECTIONS -- Measles -- Rubella.

HIV INFECTION AND ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME -- Drug Reactions -- SYSTEMIC DISEASES CAUSING FEVER AND RASH (AUTOIMMUNE SYNDROMES) -- Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation -- Erythema Multiforme -- Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis -- Erythema Nodosum -- Systemic Lupus Erythematosus -- Drug Reactions -- LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS -- COMPLICATIONS AND ADMISSION CRITERIA -- INFECTION CONTROL -- PEARLS AND PITFALLS -- REFERENCES -- 5. Otitis Media -- INTRODUCTION - AGENTS -- EPIDEMIOLOGY -- CLINICAL FEATURES -- DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS -- LABORATORY AND RADIOGRAPHIC FINDINGS -- TREATMENT AND PROPHYLAXIS -- COMPLICATIONS AND ADMISSION CRITERIA -- PEARLS AND PITFALLS -- REFERENCES -- 6. Otitis Externa -- INTRODUCTION - AGENTS -- EPIDEMIOLOGY -- CLINICAL FEATURES -- DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS -- LABORATORY AND RADIOGRAPHIC FINDINGS -- TREATMENT AND PROPHYLAXIS -- COMPLICATIONS AND ADMISSION CRITERIA -- PEARLS AND PITFALLS -- REFERENCES -- 7. Sinusitis -- INTRODUCTION - AGENTS -- EPIDEMIOLOGY -- CLINICAL FEATURES -- DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS -- LABORATORY AND RADIOGRAPHIC FINDINGS -- TREATMENT AND PROPHYLAXIS -- COMPLICATIONS AND ADMISSION CRITERIA -- PEARLS AND PITFALLS -- REFERENCES -- 8. Supraglottitis -- INTRODUCTION - AGENTS -- EPIDEMIOLOGY -- CLINICAL FEATURES -- DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS -- LABORATORY AND RADIOGRAPHIC FINDINGS -- TREATMENT AND PROPHYLAXIS -- COMPLICATIONS AND ADMISSION CRITERIA -- PEARLS AND PITFALLS -- REFERENCES -- 9. Pharyngitis and Tonsillitis -- INTRODUCTION - AGENTS -- EPIDEMIOLOGY -- CLINICAL FEATURES -- DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS -- LABORATORY AND RADIOGRAPHIC FINDINGS -- TREATMENT AND PROPHYLAXIS -- COMPLICATIONS AND ADMISSION CRITERIA -- PEARLS AND PITFALLS -- REFERENCES -- 10. Deep Neck Space Infections -- INTRODUCTION - AGENTS -- EPIDEMIOLOGY -- CLINICAL FEATURES -- DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS -- LABORATORY AND RADIOGRAPHIC FINDINGS.

TREATMENT AND PROPHYLAXIS -- COMPLICATIONS AND ADMISSION CRITERIA -- PEARLS AND PITFALLS -- REFERENCES -- 11. Mumps -- INTRODUCTION -- EPIDEMIOLOGY -- CLINICAL FEATURES -- DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS -- LABORATORY AND RADIOGRAPHIC FINDINGS -- TREATMENT AND PROPHYLAXIS -- COMPLICATIONS AND ADMISSION CRITERIA -- INFECTION CONTROL -- PEARLS AND PITFALLS -- REFERENCES -- 12. Peritonitis -- INTRODUCTION -- EPIDEMIOLOGY -- CLINICAL FEATURES -- Viscus Perforation -- Anastomotic Leaks -- DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS -- LABORATORY AND RADIOGRAPHIC FINDINGS -- INFECTION CONTROL -- PEARLS AND PITFALLS -- REFERENCES -- 13. Viral Hepatitis -- INTRODUCTION -- EPIDEMIOLOGY -- CLINICAL FEATURES -- Acute Hepatitis -- Fulminant Hepatic Failure -- Chronic Hepatitis -- Clinical Course by Virus -- DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS -- LABORATORY AND RADIOGRAPHIC FINDINGS -- TREATMENT AND PROPHYLAXIS -- MANAGEMENT AND ADMISSION CRITERIA -- INFECTION CONTROL -- PEARLS AND PITFALLS -- REFERENCES -- ADDITIONAL READINGS -- 14. Infectious Biliary Diseases: Cholecystitis and Cholangitis -- ACUTE CALCULOUS CHOLECYSTITIS -- Epidemiology -- Clinical Features -- Differential Diagnosis -- Laboratory and Radiographic Findings -- Treatment -- Complications and Admission Criteria -- Special Considerations -- ACUTE BACTERIAL CHOLANGITIS -- Epidemiology -- Clinical Features -- Laboratory and Radiographic Findings -- Treatment -- Special Considerations -- PEARLS AND PITFALLS -- REFERENCES -- ADDITIONAL READINGS -- 15. Acute Infectious Diarrhea -- INTRODUCTION -- EPIDEMIOLOGY -- CLINICAL FEATURES -- DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS -- Viruses Causing Acute Diarrhea -- Bacteria Causing Acute Diarrhea -- LABORATORY AND RADIOGRAPHIC FINDINGS -- TREATMENT AND PROPHYLAXIS -- Fluid Replacement -- Dietary Therapy -- Probiotics -- Antimotility Agents -- Bismuth Subsalicylate -- Antimicrobial Therapy for Bacterial Diarrhea.

Antimicrobial Therapy for Parasitic Diarrhea -- COMPLICATIONS AND ADMISSION CRITERIA -- INFECTION CONTROL -- PEARLS AND PITFALLS -- REFERENCES -- ADDITIONAL READINGS -- 16. Diarrhea in HIV-Infected Patients -- INTRODUCTION -- Initial Approach -- EPIDEMIOLOGY -- ASSOCIATED CLINICAL FEATURES -- DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS -- CD4 Count and Risk of Diarrhea-Causing Opportunistic Infections -- Noninfectious Causes of Diarrhea -- LABORATORY FINDINGS -- Additional Work-Up -- TREATMENT -- Symptomatic Treatment -- COMPLICATIONS AND ADMISSION CRITERIA -- Sepsis -- Dehydration and Electrolyte Imbalance -- Malnutrition -- Other -- Admission Criteria -- INFECTION CONTROL -- PEARLS AND PITFALLS -- REFERENCES -- ADDITIONAL READINGS -- 17. Ulcerative Sexually Transmitted Diseases -- INTRODUCTION - AGENTS -- HERPES GENITALIS -- Epidemiology -- Clinical Features -- Differential Diagnosis -- Laboratory Findings -- Treatment and Prophylaxis -- Complications and Admission Criteria -- Infection Control -- Pearls and Pitfalls -- SYPHILIS -- Epidemiology -- Clinical Features -- Differential Diagnosis -- Laboratory Findings -- Treatment and Prophylaxis -- Complications and Admission Criteria -- Infection Control -- Pearls and Pitfalls -- CHANCROID -- Epidemiology -- Clinical Features -- Differential Diagnosis -- Laboratory Findings -- Treatment and Prophylaxis -- Complications and Admission Criteria -- Infection Control -- Pearls and Pitfalls -- REFERENCES -- ADDITIONAL READINGS -- 18. Nonulcerative Sexually Transmitted Diseases -- INTRODUCTION - AGENTS -- CHLAMYDIA -- Epidemiology -- Clinical Features -- Differential Diagnosis -- GONORRHEA -- Epidemiology -- Clinical Features -- Differential Diagnosis -- Laboratory Findings -- CHLAMYDIA AND GONORRHEA: TREATMENT -- Chlamydia -- Gonorrhea -- CHLAMYDIA AND GONORRHEA: COMPLICATIONS AND ADMISSION CRITERIA -- Chlamydia -- Gonorrhea.

NONGONOCOCCAL URETHRITIS Laboratory Findings (1) Mucopurulent or purulent discharge, -- Epidemiology -- Clinical Features -- Differential Diagnosis -- Laboratory Findings -- Treatment -- Complications and Admission Criteria -- PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE -- Epidemiology -- Clinical Features -- Differential Diagnosis -- Laboratory Findings -- Treatment -- Complications and Admission Criteria -- HUMAN PAPILLOMA VIRUS -- Epidemiology -- Clinical Features -- Differential Diagnosis -- Laboratory Findings -- Treatment and Admission Criteria -- Complications -- Prevention -- INFECTION CONTROL -- PEARLS AND PITFALLS -- REFERENCES -- 19. Vulvovaginitis -- INTRODUCTION -- BACTERIAL VAGINOSIS -- Epidemiology -- Clinical Features -- Laboratory Findings -- Treatment -- Complications and Admission Criteria -- Infection Control -- TRICHOMONIASIS -- Epidemiology -- Clinical Features -- Laboratory Findings -- Treatment -- Complications and Admission Criteria -- Infection Control -- CANDIDIASIS -- Epidemiology -- Clinical Features -- Laboratory Findings -- Treatment -- Complications and Admission Criteria -- Infection Control -- Differential Diagnosis of Vulvovaginitis -- PEARLS AND PITFALLS -- REFERENCES -- ADDITIONAL READINGS -- 20. Male Genitourinary Infections -- INTRODUCTION -- URETHRITIS -- Epidemiology -- Clinical Features -- Differential Diagnosis -- Laboratory Findings -- Treatment and Prophylaxis -- Complications and Admission Criteria -- Infection Control -- Pearls and Pitfalls -- EPIDIDYMITIS -- Epidemiology -- Clinical Features -- Differential Diagnosis -- Laboratory and Radiographic Findings -- Treatment and Prophylaxis -- Complications and Admission Criteria -- Infection Control -- Pearls and Pitfalls -- ACUTE BACTERIAL PROSTATITIS -- Epidemiology -- Clinical Features -- Differential Diagnosis -- Laboratory and Radiographic Findings.

Treatment and Prophylaxis.