Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases e-dition: Text with Continually Updated Online Reference, 2-Volume Set Book

2-volume set PLUS access to www.PPIDONLINE.com!PPID encompasses all that is currently known about the epidemiology, etiology, pathology, microbiology, immunology, and treatment of infectious agents. Completely revised and updated-and with a bold, new 4-color format-it is a complete, essential compendium of knowledge on this vast and complex subject. Now includes a bound-in CD-ROM with all of the images from the book available for PowerPoint download.Updated WEEKLY to provide the latest advances in the field. Full contents of the 2-volume set fully searchable online.Image library available ONLINE or through the bound-in CD-ROM so you can have images from world-renowned experts in your PowerPoint presentations!New Section on Biodefense with discussions of major pathogensIncludes new chapters on hospital preparedness for infections such as SARS, infections in elderly patients, infections in returning travellers, nutrition and infection, alternative therapies for infection, the design and evaluation of clinical trials, and more!Discusses new antibiotics, including Daptomycin, telithromycin, gemifloxacin, as well as new antifungal and antiviral agentsYour purchase entitles you to access the web site until the next edition is published, or until the current edition is no longer offered for sale by Elsevier, whichever occurs first. If the next edition is published less than one year after your purchase, you will be entitled to online access for one year from your date of purchase. Elsevier reserves the right to offer a suitable replacement product (such as a downloadable or CD-ROM-based electronic version) should access to the web site be discontinued.Read More