The Infectious Disease Diagnosis

Travel to Uganda.- Visual Loss in a Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Recipient.- Like Mother, Like Daughter.- From the Lungs to the Brain, a Case of Pneumonia in an Immunocompromised Patient.- Student with Fever and Rash.- Fever, a Rash, and a ... "Bug Bite"?.- Primed for Pathogens.- The Gift That Keeps On Giving.- A Man with Heart Failure and Night Sweats.- Seizure and Confusion in an Elderly Woman with Bacteremia.- Don't Toss Your Turtle! Seizures and Fever in an Infant.- Intermittent Fevers in a Renal Transplant Recipient.- A Young Adult with Cough and Wheezing Since Infancy.- Elevated Liver Enzymes in Pregnancy.- Eye Pain and Visual Disturbance in an HIV/AIDS patient.- Undetected: When Medication Nonadherence Accompanies an Undetectable Viral Load.- Danger in Paradise.- Man with AIDS Presents with a Headache.- Vexing Vectors.- Toddler with Pica.- Hidden Sphere.- The Importance of a Complete Social History.- Myalgias and Joint Pain in a Traveler to India.- A Marathon Runner with a Change in Mental Status.- Unmasking One of the Great Masqueraders.- Pulmonary Infection in a Patient after Stem Cell Transplantation.- An HIV Patient with Nausea, Vomiting and Hiccups.- A Real Nail-Biter.- Nodular Skin Lesions in a Patient with Leukemia.- Elderly Man with Fever and Cough: TB or not TB?.- Malaise, Fever and Nausea in a Man with Marfan Syndrome.- Diarrhea Leads to Pneumonia and Hematuria in the Intensive Care Unit.- Pain and Rash in a Stem Cell Transplant Recipient.- A 2-Year-Old Girl with a Limp.- An Elderly Woman with a Fever after Traveling.- Internationally Adopted HIV-Infected Toddler with Skin Rash.- A Pediatric Patient with a Progressive Chest Wall Mass.- Diffuse Lymphadenopathy in a Patient After Stem Cell Transplantation.- Papilledema in an HIV-Positive Patient.- A Case of Fever and Rash After Tick Bite.- Facial Lesions and Respiratory Failure After Lung Transplantation.- A Pain in the Back: A 50-Year-Old Man with Pancreatitis and a Fever.- A 9-Year-Old Boy

"The book is written for a large audience, including medical students, residents, fellows, nursing students, students in physician assistant training programs, and other allied health professionals. Common and uncommon infectious disease problems are covered. ... This book has the potential to ignite the interest of trainees and other providers to pursue the specialty of infectious diseases. It provides a good example of how history taking, data collection, and analysis may lead to a diagnosis and an appropriate management plan." (Rudolf Jan Kotula, Doody's Book Reviews, February, 2018)