Publisher's Synopsis
Look to the Red Book® for all the latest in ID prevention, management, and control.
Extending a 7 decade tradition of excellence, Red Book® 2012 provides page after page of “must-know” information and practice-proven guidelines for state-of-the-art paediatric care.
Turn here for today’s most up to date, most reliable, most clinically useful findings on the manifestations, etiology, epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment of more than 200 childhood infectious diseases.
New in Red Book® 2012:
Developed by the AAP Committee on Infectious Diseases in conjunction with the CDC, the FDA and other leading institutions with contributions from hundreds of physicians nationwide, the newly revised and updated 2012 Red Book continues the tradition of excellence with the latest findings and clinical recommendations on the manifestations, etiology, epidemiology, diagnosis and treatment of more than 200 childhood conditions.
- Standardised approach to disease prevention through immunisations, anti microbial prophylaxis and infection control practices have been updated throughout
- 2012 childhood and adolescent immunisation schedules added
- Updated information on hypersensitivity reactions after immunisations
- The latest on sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in adolescents and children
- Updated coverage of adenovirus, arbovirus, candidiasis, clostridium infections, clostridium difficle, cyclosporiasis, cytomegalovirus, enteroviruses, Escherichia coli diarrhea, human calicivirus infections, meningococcal infections, pediculosis capitis, pertussis, pneumococcal infections, rotavirus, and more
- Updated information on hepatitis A and hepatitis B
- Updated information on Group B streptococcal infections
- Extensively rewritten chapter on coronavirus to update epidemiology
- New chapter on dengue
- Significantly revised chapters on herpes simplex and HIV infection
- Vaccine recommendations for using MMR or MMRV vaccines have been updated
- Recommendations for screening females for HPV infection and for immunising females and males with HPV vaccine are provided
- Updated section on drugs for parasitic infections
- And more!
