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Written by experts in the field
New edition extensively revised and updated
Gives a comprehensive account of transplant infections
Richly illustrated with key tables and figures
Includes summaries to reinforce learning objectives
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (54 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Risks and Epidemiology of Infections After Transplantation
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Front Matter
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Specific Sites of Infection
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Front Matter
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About this book
Transplant Infections is of paramount value to infectious disease specialists, transplant physicians, medical students, fellows, residents, and all medical professionals working with surgical patients.
Keywords
- Epidemiology
- Infection Prevention
- Solid Organ organ transplantation
- Stem cell transplantation
- Transplant Infections
- infectious diseases
Editors and Affiliations
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Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
Per Ljungman
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Tufts University School of Medicine Tufts Medical Center, Boston, USA
David Snydman
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University of Washington Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, USA
Michael Boeckh
About the editors
Dr. David R. Snydman is the Chief of the Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases at Tufts University School of Medicine, where he focuses on infectious diseases, cytomegaloviruses, and transplant infectious diseases. He earned his MD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1972 and immediately received his first of twenty prestigious honors and awards. He also trained with the Centers for Disease Control and the Tufts Medical Center and has contributed to over 200 publications.
Dr. Michael Boeckh is a professor of medicine at the University of Washington. He is also the Head of the Infectious Disease Sciences Program at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and an attending physician at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance. Dr. Boeckh's primary focuses are infectious diseases in the immunocompromised host, respiratory viruses, and transplantation infections. He completed both a PhD and MD from Freie Universität Berlin before accepting his Infectious Disease Fellowship at the University of Washington School of Medicine in 1992. Over the course of his career, he has collaborated on a multitude of publication on the most cutting-edge techniques in infection detection, treatment, and prevention.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Transplant Infections
Book Subtitle: Fourth Edition
Editors: Per Ljungman, David Snydman, Michael Boeckh
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28797-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-28795-9Published: 18 October 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-80427-9Published: 27 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-28797-3Published: 03 October 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 1000
Number of Illustrations: 51 b/w illustrations, 50 illustrations in colour
Topics: Infectious Diseases, Hematology, Transplant Surgery, Immunology, Intensive / Critical Care Medicine, General Practice / Family Medicine