This classic text delivers comprehensive, yet concise coverage of childhood exanthems and other infections, offering practical options for their management and treatment. Thoroughly cross-referenced chapters and a wealth of helpful tables, diagrams, charts, photographs, and color plates speed readers to a diagnosis. Chapters cover history, management, and treatment of the major infections affecting children worldwide, including emerging and re-emerging diseases in developing countries (such as malaria and dengue).

Reflects the most recent developments in the field with...

New chapters on fungal infections, eye infections, cholera, dengue and dengue hemorrhagic fever, malaria, and helminthic infections. An updated smallpox/vaccinia chapter with information on bioterrorism and the initiation of smallpox vaccination programs. An expanded discussion of pseudomonas infections in the cystic fibrosis chapter. Discussions of the newer hepatitis viruses.