The Best Infectious Diseases Books 2025

1. Krasner's Microbial Challenge: A Public Health Perspective: A Public Health Perspective, Pre-Owned (Paperback)

Pre-Owned - Krasner's Microbial Challenge: A Public Health Perspective is a unique resource unlike any other introductory microbiology textbook. Combining strong scientific grounding with a conversational writing style, it covers the subject through a public health lens and uses current events students encounter in the media, such as disease outbreaks, to engage and educate. The essentials to a foundational understanding of microbiology are fully covered, including bacteria, viruses and prions, microbial genetics, the human microbiome, and immunity combined with a focus on epidemiology and current challenges faced in public health. Now in a modernized fourth edition and featuring the voice of new lead author, Dr. Shors' research and extensive virology knowledge complements the late Dr. Krasner's student-friendly approach crafted from 50 years of teaching microbiology. The ideal introductory text for nursing programs, non-majors microbiology, allied health, and public health programs, Krasner's Microbial Challenge: A Public Health Perspective, Fourth Edition is user-friendly, dynamic, and humorous. Its conversational style is certain to engage students and enhance their understanding of the ongoing interactions between microbes and their human hosts.

Krasner's Microbial Challenge: A Public Health Perspective: A Public Health Perspective, Pre-Owned (Paperback)

2. Foodborne Diseases, Used [Hardcover]

In this book, leading authorities present a broad overview of the microbial pathogens and toxins associated with foodborne illness while discussing pathogenicity, clinical epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment. The volume covers all the bacterial pathogens, viruses, protozoans, and parasites, as well as microbial toxins. Additionally, authors discuss pathogen control strategies and look toward future innovations in food safety technology.

Foodborne Diseases, Used [Hardcover]

3. Current Therapy of Infectious Disease, Used [Hardcover]

The New Edition of this well-respected text provides current, readable descriptions of a full range of infectious diseases as well as the latest recommendations for therapy. Its clinically oriented, practical format allows busy practitioners to look up any infectious disease topic quickly and efficiently. Plus, it provides a clinical yet authoritative approach to patient care that facilitates rapid decision making. The 2nd Edition includes many new chapters, thoroughly updated drug information, and numerous other revisions to reflect the latest advances in the specialty.

Current Therapy of Infectious Disease, Used [Hardcover]

4. Stories in the Time of Cholera: Racial Profiling During a Medical Nightmare [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Cholera, although it can kill an adult through dehydration in half a day, is easily treated. Yet in 1992-93, some five hundred people died from cholera in the Orinoco Delta of eastern Venezuela. In some communities, a third of the adults died in a single night, as anthropologist Charles Briggs and Clara Mantini-Briggs, a Venezuelan public health physician, reveal in their frontline report. Why, they ask in this moving and thought-provoking account, did so many die near the end of the twentieth century from a bacterial infection associated with the premodern past? It was evident that the number of deaths resulted not only from inadequacies in medical services but also from the failure of public health officials to inform residents that cholera was likely to arrive. Less evident were the ways that scientists, officials, and politicians connected representations of infectious diseases with images of social inequality. In Venezuela, cholera was racialized as officials used anthropological notions of "culture" in deflecting blame away from their institutions and onto the victims themselves. The disease, the space of the Orinoco Delta, and the "indigenous ethnic group" who suffered cholera all came to seem somehow synonymous. One of the major threats to people's health worldwide is this deadly cycle of passing the blame. Carefully documenting how stigma, stories, and statistics circulate across borders, this first-rate ethnography demonstrates that the process undermines all the efforts of physicians and public health officials and at the same time contributes catastrophically to epidemics not only of cholera but also of tuberculosis, malaria, AIDS, and other killers. The authors have harnessed their own outrage over what took place during the epidemic and its aftermath in order to make clear the political and human stakes involved in the circulation of narratives, resources, and germs.

Stories in the Time of Cholera : Racial Profiling During a Medical Nightmare, Used [Paperback]

5. Control of Hospital Infection: A Practical Handbook [Hardcover - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. The fourth edition of this classic title is the definitive, clinically orientated guide to infections acquired in hospital, how to prevent them, and how to control them. It has been thoroughly revised and updated throughout. New topics include surveillance, administration and the control of antibiotic-resistant organisms. Also included is a discussion of European and UK legislation related to standards of medical device processing, decontamination and staff safety, as well as audit, risk assessment and medical negligence.

Control of Hospital Infection : A Practical Handbook, Used [Hardcover]

6. The Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai [Hardcover - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. In the bestselling tradition of In the Heart of the Sea , The Colony , "an impressively researched" ( Rocky Mountain News ) account of the history of America's only leper colony located on the Hawaiian island of Molokai, is "an utterly engrossing look at a heartbreaking chapter" ( Booklist ) in American history and a moving tale of the extraordinary people who endured it. Beginning in 1866 and continuing for over a century, more than eight thousand people suspected of having leprosy were forcibly exiled to the Hawaiian island of Molokai -- the longest and deadliest instance of medical segregation in American history. Torn from their homes and families, these men, women, and children were loaded into shipboard cattle stalls and abandoned in a lawless place where brutality held sway. Many did not have leprosy, and many who did were not contagious, yet all were ensnared in a shared nightmare. Here, for the first time, John Tayman reveals the complete history of the Molokai settlement and its unforgettable inhabitants. It's an epic of ruthless manhunts, thrilling escapes, bizarre medical experiments, and tragic, irreversible error. Carefully researched and masterfully told, The Colony is a searing tale of individual bravery and extraordinary survival, and stands as a testament to the power of faith, compassion, and the human spirit.

The Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai, Used [Hardcover]

7. Basic Infection Control for Healthcare Providers [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Basic Infection Control for Health Care Providers, Second Edition, is a clear and concise guide to preventing occupational exposure hazards and communicable and infectious diseases. This book includes coverage on how to safely protect oneself from infectious agents and what do in case of infectious exposure. Discussions of the disease process and legal issues surrounding exposure and infectious diseases provide context for the material. The blend of fundamental infection control content and reference resources makes this tool perfect for use in an instructional setting or as a reference for practicing health care providers.

Basic Infection Control for Healthcare Providers, Used [Paperback]

8. Johns Hopkins ABX Guide: Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases 2012 (Johns Hopkins Medicine), Used [Paperback]

Jones & Bartlett Learning is the Official Print and Mobile Provider of the Johns Hopkins POC-IT Center ABX Guide.Thoroughly revised and updated for 2012, the Johns Hopkins ABX Guide, Third Edition continues to provide current, authoritative and comprehensive information on anti-microbial agents, infectious disease and commonly encountered pathogens, in one portable volume.Written by experts at the world-renowned Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, this must-have resource features expert recommendations, clinical and diagnostic decision-making tools, and drug-to-drug interactions. Concise, thorough, and current, The Johns Hopkins ABX Guide, Second Edition is designed for quick reference and comprehension. Information is featured in an easy-to-access format that facilitates rapid application of knowledge at the point of care.

Johns Hopkins ABX Guide 2012 : Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, Used [Paperback]

9. Safety and Infection Control, Used [Spiral-bound]

This one-of-a-kind resource offers complete guidance on preventing and controlling infection and maintaining safety including OSHA requirements for employees' health, immunization schedules for employees, needle-quick guidelines, prevention strategies, and a chart of diseases requiring standard precautions.

Safety and Infection Control, Used [Spiral-bound]

10. Microbiology: An Evolving Science [Hardcover - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Microbiology: An Evolving Science , Second Edition, provides students with the tools they need to understand the rapidly advancing field of microbiology by enriching foundational topics with current research examples. The readable and authoritative text is paired with a stunning and unified art program that helps students visualize key microbial processes and structures.

Microbiology : An Evolving Science, Used [Hardcover]