Feigin and Cherry’s Textbook of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, 9th Edition

• Discusses infectious diseases according to organ systems that may be affected, as well as individually by microorganisms, placing emphasis on clinical manifestations that may be related to the organism causing the disease.
• Provides detailed information regarding the best means to establish a diagnosis, explicit recommendations for therapy, and the most appropriate uses of diagnostic imaging.
• Includes expanded information on Q fever, antibiotic resistance and antibiotic agents, human coronaviruses, pox viruses, and infections in the compromised host, and contains new COVID-19 content across numerous chapters.
• Features a new chapter on antimicrobial stewardship, and new coverage of antivirals for pox viruses.
• Reflects today’s more aggressive infectious and antibiotic-resistant organisms as well as emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases.
• Contains hundreds of full-color images (many are new!), including clinical photos, radiographic images, drawings, charts, and graphs.
• Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices. Additional digital ancillary content may publish up to 6 weeks following the publication date.

Edited by James Cherry, MD, MSc, Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA; Attending Physician, Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA, Los Angeles, California; Sheldon L. Kaplan, MD, Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine; Attending Physician, Infectious Disease Service, Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, Texas; Gail J. Demmler-Harrison, MD, Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, Baylor College of Medicine; Attending Physician, Infectious Diseases Service, Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, Texas; William Steinbach, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, Robert H. Fiser, Jr., MD Endowed Chair in Pediatrics, Chair, Department of Pediatrics, Associate Dean for Child Health, College of Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences; Pediatrician-in-Chief, Arkansas Children’s Little Rock, Arkansas; Peter J Hotez, MD, PhD, Dean, National School of Tropical Medicine, Professor, Pediatrics and Molecular Virology & Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine; Endowed Chair of Tropical Pediatrics, Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, Texas and John V Williams, MD, Professor, Pediatrics and Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, Henry L. Hillman Professor of Pediatric Immunology, Chief, Pediatric Infectious Diseases, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania