Infectious Diseases of the Respiratory Tract

Part I. Diagnosis, Host, Defence and Antimicrobials: 1. Laboratory diagnosis of respiratory infections M. Kalin, M. Grandien and B. Petrini; 2. Radiological aspects of lung infection J. Weir; 3. Respiratory defences against infection N. Waravdekar and H. Reynolds; 4. General principles of antimicrobial therapy P. Venkatesan and M Wood; Part II. Respitatory Infections due to Major Respiratory Pathogens: 5. Pneumococcal pneumonia M. Kalin; 6. Staphylococcal pneumonia M. Ellis; 7. Haemophilus influenzae and Moraxella infections M. Kalin; 8. Gram negative bacillary pneumonia M. Ellis; 9. Viral lower respiratory tract infections M. Ellis; 10. Cytomegalovirus pneumonia M. Ellis; 11. Non-tuberculous mycobacteria M. Ellis and R. Frothingham; 12. Actinomycosis and nocardiosis M. Ellis; 13. Pneumonia due to small bacterial organisms G. Douglas; 14. Legionellosis J. Watson and J. MacFarlane; 15. Tuberculosis J. Friend; 16. Fungal respiratory disease M. Ellis; Part III. Major Respiratory Syndromes: 17. Community acquired pneumonia J. Friend; 18. Community acquired fungal pneumonias D. McKinsey; 19. Hospital acquired pneumonia G. Miller and M. Ellis; 20. Anaerobic lung infection, lung abscess and empysema J. Khan and M. Ellis; 21. Pneumonia in the immunocompromised G. Donowitz; 22. HIV associated respiratory infections E. Ong; 23. Lower respiratory infection in children J. Couriel; 24. Pulmonary infection in cystic fibrosis A. Webb, J. Morecroft and M. Dodd; 25. Upper respiratory tract infections M. Ellis and P. McArthur; 26. Respiratory infections associated with foreign travel C. Parry and A. Harries; 27. Intensive care management of the critically ill patient with pneumonia G. Miller; 28. Diseases associated with persistant or recurrent pulmonary infiltrates M. Ellis; 29. Chronic air flow obstruction, acute and chronic bronchitis, bronchiectasis H. Rea and A. Wells; 30. Miscellaneous pneumonic agents and others causing lower respiratory tract infection M. Ellis.