Long's Principles and Practice of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, 7th Edition – David W. Kimberlin Premium Multicolor Matt Print

A child arrives febrile and unwell, and the question is never "what does the textbook say about this organism". It is "what is going on here, and what do I do in the next hour". Long's is built around that reality: nearly 300 chapters across 1,808 pages, arranged so you can enter from whichever end of the problem you are actually holding.

That is the feature that distinguishes it from every general paediatrics text. You can look a problem up by clinical presentation when you have a syndrome and no name for it, by pathogen when the laboratory has given you an organism, or by host type when the child is a neonate, immunocompromised or post-transplant and the usual rules do not apply. Cross-references run between the three, so a search that starts in one place lands in the others.

New in This Edition

• A new editor-in-chief and editorial team, led by David W. Kimberlin with Grace M. Aldrovandi, Adam J. Ratner and José R. Romero
• New content on conditions that mimic infectious disease — haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis, macrophage activation syndrome, multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) and Kawasaki disease
• Expanded coverage of new morbidities and evidence-based strategies to prevent healthcare-associated infections
• New vaccines, both recently approved and in development
• Updated material on SARS-CoV-2 and Zika virus
• A deeper treatment of intrauterine infection in the approach to the neonate with suspected infection

That first group deserves attention. The commonest serious error in paediatric infectious disease is not picking the wrong antibiotic — it is treating a hyperinflammatory syndrome as sepsis. A reference that addresses the mimics directly is doing something most do not.

What This Book Covers

Four parts:

• Part I — Understanding, controlling and preventing infectious diseases: epidemiology, prevention and host defences
• Part II — Clinical syndromes and the approach to diagnosis and initial management: organised by organ system and symptom complex
• Part III — Etiologic agents: bacteria; diseases of possible infectious or unknown cause; viruses; fungi; and parasites
• Part IV — Laboratory diagnosis and anti-infective therapy

Key Features

• Three ways into the same material — by presentation, by pathogen, or by host
• High-yield boxes and highlighted key points for the answer you need now
• At-a-glance tables and detailed illustrations throughout
• A uniform chapter style, so the book stays navigable across nearly 300 chapters
• Cross-references between chapters rather than dead ends
• Covers children and adolescents specifically, rather than adapting adult practice downward

Who Is This Book For?

• Paediatricians and FCPS Paediatrics trainees
• Paediatric infectious disease fellows
• MRCPCH candidates
• Neonatologists and PICU teams
• Microbiologists and infection control teams working with paediatric cases
• Medical officers covering paediatric emergency and inpatient care

Book Details

• Title: Long's Principles and Practice of Pediatric Infectious Diseases
• Edition: Seventh Edition
• Editor-in-Chief: David W. Kimberlin
• Editors: Grace M. Aldrovandi, Adam J. Ratner, José R. Romero
• Publisher: Elsevier
• ISBN-13: 9780443250255
• Pages: 1,808
• Chapters: Nearly 300
• Language: English

Please note: the cover advertises an Enhanced Digital Version. The publisher's eBook and online access code are not included with this copy.

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