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Infectious Diseases in Older Persons

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This chapter briefly reviews infections in older persons. Pneumonia and urinary tract infection are covered in some detail but other important infections also briefly reviewed.

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  1. School of Medicine, San Diego VA Healthcare System, University of California, San Diego, California, USA

    Dean Norman

  2. Department of Veterans Affairs, Geriatrics & Extended Care, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine & Science, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Thomas Yoshikawa

  3. VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Thomas Yoshikawa

  4. David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Thomas Yoshikawa

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  1. California Association of Long Term Care Medicine, Newbury Park, CA, USA

    Michael R. Wasserman

  2. Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA, USA

    Debra Bakerjian

  3. Department of Clinical Pharmacy, University of Colorado Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Aurora, CO, USA

    Sunny Linnebur

  4. Division of Geriatrics, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, USA

    Sharon Brangman

  5. Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

    Matteo Cesari

  6. Section of Geriatric Medicine, Division of Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai, Beverly Hills, CA, USA

    Sonja Rosen

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    Michael R. Wasserman M.D., CMD

  2. Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

    Matteo Cesari MD, PhD

  3. Geriatric Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy

    Matteo Cesari MD, PhD

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Norman, D., Yoshikawa, T. (2024). Infectious Diseases in Older Persons. In: Wasserman, M.R., Bakerjian, D., Linnebur, S., Brangman, S., Cesari, M., Rosen, S. (eds) Geriatric Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74720-6_42

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