Dennis Kasper - Harrisons Infectious Diseases, 2/E

Derived from Harrisons Principles of Internal Medicine, 18th Edition

Editors

DAN L. LONGO, MD

Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School;
Senior Physician, Brigham and Womens Hospital;
Deputy Editor, New England Journal of Medicine,
Boston, Massachusetts

DENNIS L. KASPER, MD

William Ellery Channing Professor of Medicine and Professor of Microbiology and Immunobiology,
Division of Immunology, Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School,
Boston, Massachusetts

J. LARRY JAMESON, MD, PhD

Robert G. Dunlop Professor of Medicine;
Dean, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine;
Executive Vice-President of the University of Pennsylvania for the Health System, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

ANTHONY S. FAUCI, MD

Chief, Laboratory of Immunoregulation; Director,
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases,
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland

STEPHEN L. HAUSER, MD

Robert A. Fishman Distinguished Professor and Chairman,
Department of Neurology,
University of California, San Francisco,
San Francisco, California

JOSEPH LOSCALZO, MD, PhD

Hersey Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine,
Harvard Medical School;
Chairman, Department of Medicine;
Physician-in-Chief, Brigham and Womens Hospital,
Boston, Massachusetts

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SECTION I
INTRODUCTION TO INFECTIOUS DISEASES

SECTION II
FEVER AND APPROACH TO THE FEBRILE PATIENT

SECTION III
INFECTIONS IN ORGAN SYSTEMS

SECTION IV
BACTERIAL INFECTIONS

SECTION V
VIRAL INFECTIONS

SECTION VI
PRION DISEASES

SECTION VII
FUNGAL INFECTIONS

SECTION VIII
PROTOZOAL AND HELMINTHIC INFECTIONS

SECTION IX
ENVENOMATIONS, INFESTATIONS, BITES, AND STINGS

Numbers in brackets refer to the chapter(s) written or co-written by the contributor.

Neil M. Ampel, MD

Professor of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona []

Gordon L. Archer, MD

Professor of Medicine and Microbiology/Immunology; Senior Associate Dean for Research and Research Training, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, Virginia []

Cesar A. Arias, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor, University of Texas Medical School, Houston, Texas; Director, Molecular Genetics and Antimicrobial Resistance Unit, Universidad El Bosque, Bogot, Colombia []

John C. Atherton, MD, FRCP

Nottingham Digestive Diseases Centre Biomedical Research Unit (NDDC BRU), University of Nottingham and Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Nottingham, United Kingdom []

Paul S. Auerbach, MD, MS

Redlich Family Professor, Department of Surgery, Division of Emergency Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California []

Lindsey R. Baden, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Womens Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts []

Tamar F. Barlam, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts []