Authoritative, comprehensive, and practical, this second edition covers the infectious diseases of childhood and is organized by syndrome as well as organism. Written by the premier authorities on the subject, it contains a wealth of pertinent information and has been called the best, most useful textbook in the field today. Clinically and therapeutically oriented, it includes sections on understanding, controlling, and preventing infectious disease; clinical syndromes and cardinal features; etiologic agents of disease; and lab diagnosis and therapy.Comprehensive information is authoritative and readily accessible.Content is offered for diagnosis, management, and prevention of any infectious disease - not in multiple volumes, but in a single source.Specific content is included on infection control, immunizations, understanding biostatistics, testing and using antimicrobial agents.Content is clinically and therapeutically oriented with three problem - solving approaches and three goals ? understanding the problem, diagnosing correctly, and providing appropriate management.The textbook outline and content provide excellent curriculum for study and match content specifications for the ABP subspecialty certifying examination.The generous use of tables, graphics, and pictorials delivers major points, offers quick review, and facilitates slide making for lectures.The editors and authors of each content area are highly recognizable experts from recommending bodies ? resulting in consistency and standard - of - care approaches throughout the text.Carefully written and edited, it offers a uniform focus, with minimum redundancy or extraneous information.Content has been thoroughly reviewed and extensively updated throughout.New insights are offered into the global perspective on emergence and control of infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance.Other new or expanded information includes the use of immunoglobulin products, a primer in biostatistics, inflammatory mediators, the latest schedule of immunizations, spongiform encephalopathies, recently discovered viruses, new antiviral therapies, new vaccine, fungal pathogens, and anti-infective agents.A pictorial compendium of arthropods and associated diseases has been added.Websites and telephone numbers are included for key resources.Tables, figures, slide - ready graphics, clinical photographs, and the latest imaging pictorials have been maximized to improve their usefulness.