This bookis designed as a clinically relevant handbook for use by specialist trainee and consultant medical staff caring for immunocompromised patients in a hospital setting.
This bookis designed as a clinically relevant handbook for use by specialist trainee and consultant medical staff caring for immunocompromised patients in a hospital setting.
Simon Fox was raised in Kenya, East Africa and did an initial BSc in Zoology before working in Uganda and Somalia on the ecology of tropical infections. He completed his undergraduate medical education at the University of Oxford. Following this, in addition to NHS posts in general medicine and infectious diseases, he has worked in Papua New Guinea and Thailand. Brian Angus trained in Glasgow and Oxford. He has done research on artemisinin in severe malaria in Thailand and Ghana. Currently he is working in vaccine development using controlled human challenge models and viral vector vaccines. Angela Minassian trained in Cambridge, London and Oxford, and was appointed as a Consultant in Infectious Diseases in Birmingham in 2014. Her main research interest is in human challenge models of infection, and her DPhil involved development of a human challenge model against tuberculosis, using BCG. She is currently working to establish the first human challenge model for P. vivax malaria in Europe. Thomas Rawlinson trained at Liverpool, Harvard and Oxford. He has worked as a GP in the Hebrides before re-training in Infectious Diseases. He is currently a Wellcome Trust Research Training Fellow at the Jenner Institute, University of Oxford and developing a vaccine against blood stage Plasmodium vivax malaria. His fascination with tropical diseases has been fuelled by work in West Africa, Asia and South America.
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Section 1: Background 1: Introduction 2: The immune system Section 2: Clinical approach 3: Primary immunodeficiency syndromes 4: Immunosuppressive drugs 5: HIV infection 6: Neutropenic sepsis in patients with leukaemia, lymphoma and solid organ tumours 7: Infections in solid organ transplant recipients 8: Infections in haematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients 9: Medical conditions associated with immunocompromise 10: Travel in the immunocompromised Section 3: Microbiology 11: Viruses 12: Parasites 13: Fungi 14: Bacteria
