Micologia

Fully reviewed and revised for its second edition, the Oxford Handbook of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology maintains its position as the must-have guide to all aspects of infectious diseases and microbiology. Reflecting the current approach to joint postgraduate training programmes, the handbook takes an integrated approach to both subjects. It covers the basic principles of bacteriology and virology, along with specific guidance on individual diseases and conditions, all in the accessible Oxford Handbook style. Now including new topics on important subjects such as microbiology specimen collection, commonly used media, molecular diagnostics, and antimicrobials in pregnancy, as well as incorporating new guidelines from WHO, NICE, and BASHH among others, this handbook ensures that the informaiton you need is accessible, clear, and easy-to-understand. Practical and comprehensive, this handbook includes coverage of National Frameworks and current legislation, together with information on topical issues such as bioterrorism and preventative medicine. Fully reviewed by specialist senior readers, and with useful links to up-to-date clinical information and online resources, this is an important addition to the Oxford Handbook Series.

Medical mycology deals with those infections in humans, and animals resulting from pathogenic fungi. As a separate discipline, the concepts, methods, diagnosis, and treatment of fungal diseases of humans are specific. Incorporating the very latest information concerning this area of vital interest to research and clinical microbiologists,Fundamental Medical Mycology balances clinical and laboratory knowledge to provide clinical laboratory scientists, medical students, interns, residents, and fellows with in-depth coverage of each fungal disease and its etiologic agents from both the laboratory and clinical perspective. Richly illustrated throughout, the book includes numerous case presentations.

Questo volume rappresenta lo stato dell'arte sulle infezioni fungine nei pazienti con ridotta risposta immunitaria, problema di straordinaria e crescente rilevanza medica. Ma il libro è soprattutto una summa del sapere dei più prestigiosi microbiologi, clinici e farmacologi che hanno voluto, con questa pubblicazione, ricordare la figura del professor Pietro Martino, uno dei padri dell'infettivologia italiana.

I farmaci antimicotici, in particolare quelli per le micosi profonde, in passato hanno avuto scarsa attenzione e sviluppo. Questo in parte per difficoltà della ricerca di base nel trovare nuovi target farmacologici e in parte per la relativamente bassa prevalenza delle infezioni fungine sistemiche.

The first book of its kind to focus on the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of patients with fungal infections, this definitive reference returns in a completely revised, full-color new edition. It presents specific recommendations for understanding, controlling, and preventing fungal infections based upon underlying principles of epidemiology and infection control policy, pathogenesis, immunology, histopathology, and laboratory diagnosis and anti fungal therapy. More than 560 photographs, illustrations, and tables depict conditions as they appear in real life and equip you to identify clinical manifestations with accuracy. Expanded therapy content helps you implement the most appropriate treatment quickly, and a bonus CD-ROM-featuring all of the images from the text-enables you to enhance your electronic presentations.

The Pocket Guide to Fungal Infection presents, in a convenient and practical format, the major features of fungal infections in humans, providing visual information for each pathogen and the infections they cause. The second edition has been extensively revised. In each chapter the clinical manifestations and management sections have been revised and updated to include recently developed antifungal drugs. New sections include; * Emerging yeast and filamentous fungal pathogens * Antifungal susceptibility testing * Antifungal assays * Molecular methods in medical mycology * Mycological aspects of the indoor environment. Medical Mycology lends itself to illustration and as such there are over 40 additional images in this edition. Recent references have been added and the list of online resources has been updated. This Guide presents a succinct account of the clinical manifestations, laboratory diagnosis and management of fungal infections world-wide. It is an ideal publication for those who encounter fungal infections as part of their everyday practice, including medical microbiologists, infectious disease specialists, dermatologists and general practitioners.

"Le infezioni fungine del piede è dunque una guida pratica e uno strumento di consultazione che anche il podologo più esperto dovrebbe leggere, e ogni studente dovrebbe avere vicino nel percorso formativo che va seguendo. Le infezioni fungine che colpiscono il piede, infatti, sono una delle patologie nelle quali più spesso si imbatte il podologo. Se la diagnosi non è difficile, per il trattamento sarà utile conoscere i successi degli ultimi anni che hanno riscosso i nuovi farmaci, come anche le nuove procedure di trattamento con gli antimicotici orali. Ed ogni tema è trattato non solo tenendo ben presente una linea costante di semplicità e chiarezza, ma anche calandosi, da podologi che vivono ogni giorno la professione, nelle esigenze del fare e del sapere che la professione impone. I capitoli sono solo due Le dermatomicosi del piede e Le onicomicosi del piede ma ciascuno di essi è sviluppato su vari temi che rendono del tutto esaustiva la trattazione. In definitiva un testo che l'AIP segnala e consiglia a quanti hanno veramente a cuore la propria professione." (Dalla Presentazione di M. Montesi).