Principles and practice of cancer infectious diseases /
[Book]
Amar Safdar, editor.
New York :
Humana,
2011.
1 online resource (xix, 591 pages) :
illustrations (some color).
Current clinical oncology
Title from PDF t.p. (SpringerLink, viewed Jun 9, 2011)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Infections in patients with cancer : overview / Amar Safdar, Gerald Bodey, and Donald Armstrong -- Infections in hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients / Georg Maschmeyer and Per Ljungman -- Infections in patients with hematologic malignancies / Genovefa Papanicolaou and Jayesh Mehta -- Infections in solid tumor patients / Alison G. Freifeld -- Infections in patients with hematologic malignancies treated with monoclonal antineoplastic therapy / André Goy and Susan O'Brien -- Postsurgery infections in cancer patients / Emilio Bouza ... [et. al] -- Management of infections in critically ill cancer patients / Henry Masur -- Management of the neutropenic patient with fever / Kenneth V. I. Rolston and Gerald P. Bodey -- Controversies in empiric therapy of febrile neutropenia / John R. Wingard -- Catheter-related infections in cancer patients / Iba Al Wohoush, Anne-Marie Chaftari, and Issam Raad -- Intravascular device-related infections : catheter salvage strategies and prevention of device-related infection / Nasia Safdar and Dennis G. Maki -- Pneumonia in the cancer patient / Scott E. Evans and Amar Safdar -- Noninfectious lung infiltrates that may be confused with pneumonia in the cancer patient / Rana Kaplan ... [et. al] -- Mucosal barrier injury and infections / Nicole M. A. Blijlevens and J. Peter Donnelly -- Bacterial colonization and host immunity / Coralia N. Mihu, Karen J. Vigil, and Javier A. Adachi -- Neutropenic enterocolitis and clostridium difficile infections / Amar Safdar ... [et. al] -- Management of reactivation of hepatitis B and hepatitis C during antineoplastic therapy / Marta Davila and Harrys A. Torres -- Management of genitourinary tract infections / Amar Safdar and Maurie Markman -- Central nervous system infections in cancer patients / Victor Mulanovich and Amar Safdar -- Endocarditis in oncology patients / Sara E. Cosgrove and Aruna Subramanian -- Skin disorders difficult to distinguish from infections / Sharone Hymes, Susan Chon, and Ana Ciurea -- Overview of invasive fungal disease in oncology patients / Amar Safdar -- Diagnosis of invasive fungal disease / Dionissios Neofytos and Kieren Marr -- Invasive candidiasis in management of infections in cancer patients / Matteo Bassetti ... [et. al] -- Management of aspergillosis, zygomycosis, and other clinically relevant mold infections / Konstantinos Leventakos and Dimitrios P. Kontoyiannis -- Cryptococcal disease and endemic mycosis / Johan A. Maertens and Hélène Schoemans -- Current controversies in the treatment of fungal infections / Christopher D. Pfeiffer, John R. Perfect, and Barbra D. Alexander -- Fungal drug resistance and pharmacologic considerations of dosing newer antifungal therapies / Russell E. Lewis and David S. Perlin -- Immunotherapy for difficult-to-treat invasive fungal diseases / Brahm H. Segal, Amar Safdar, and David A. Stevens -- Cytomegalovirus in patients with cancer / Morgan Hakki, Per Ljungman, and Michael Boeckh -- Epstein-Barr virus, varicella zoster virus, and human herpes viruses-6 and -8 / Mini Kamboj and David M. Weinstock -- Respiratory viruses / Roy F. Chemaly, Dhanesh B. Rathod, and Robert Couch -- BK, JC and parvovirus infections in patients with hematologic malignancies / Véronique Erard and Michael Boeckh -- Antiviral resistance and implications for prophylaxis / Robin K. Avery -- Management of gram-positive bacterial disease : staphylococcus aureus, streptococcal, pneumococcal, and enterococcal infections / Samuel Shelburne and Daniel M. Musher -- Infections caused by aerobic and anaerobic gram-negative bacilli / Kenneth V. I. Rolston, David E.Greenberg, and Amar Safdar -- Listeriosis and nocardiosis / Heather E. Clauss and Bennett Lorber -- Antibacterial distribution and drug-drug interactions in cancer patients / Ursula Theuretzbacher and Markus Zeitlinger -- Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection / Michael Glickman -- Nontuberculous mycobacterial infections / Amar Safdar -- Parasitic infections in cancer patients : toxoplasmosis, strongyloidiasis and other parasites / Brian G. Blackburn and José G. Montoya -- Zoonoses in cancer patients / Donald Armstrong -- Antibiotic stewardship : considerations for a cancer Center / Coralia N. Mihu, Alla Paskovaty, and Susan K. Seo -- Controversies in antimicrobial stewardship / Graeme N. Forrest -- Prevention of antimicrobial resistance : current and future strategies / Cesar A. Arias and Adolf W. Karchmer -- Antibacterial, antifungal, and antiviral prophylaxis / Marcio Nucci and John R. Wingard -- Controversies in antimicrobial prophylaxis / Ben de Pauw and Marta Stanzani -- Infection prevention : protected environment and infection control / J. Peter Donnelly -- Prevention of tropical and parasitic infections : the immunocompromised traveler / Francesca F. Norman and Rogelio López-Vélez -- Prophylactic vaccination of cancer patients and hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients / William Decker and Amar Safdar