Oxford Handbook of Genitourinary Medicine, HIV and AIDS

Genitourinary medicine (GUM) is an expanding specialty which is primarily related to the treatment and prevention of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). A number of GUM departments also offer other sexual health services such as contraception, sexual dysfunction and health promotion. Services are provided by multidisciplinary teams which include doctors, nurses, health advisers (who carry out partner notification and counselling), receptionists, laboratory staff and secretarial support. The "Oxford Handbook of Genitourinary Medicine HIV and AIDS" provides practical, evidence-based information on the specialty, covering medico-legal, ethical, and procedural issues. The first section deals with routine management, special situations and clinical and laboratory processes. The second section covers genitourinary conditions in a disease-orientated style, including sexually transmitted diseases and other genitourinary problems. The third section on HIV provides a contemporary epidemiological overview of this infection, basic viral biology and pathogenesis, a disease-orientated description of conditions both directly related and opportunistic, and their management, and data on special situations such as pregnancy.

ISBN 0198520778   Pages 580 ISBN13 9780198520771 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Oxford University Press   Weight (grammes) 318 Imprint Oxford University Press   Published in Oxford Format Spiral / Comb Bound   Series title Oxford Handbooks Publication date 21 Jul 2005   Height (mm) 180 Library of Congress 2005002781   Width (mm) 100 DEWEY 616.6   Spine width (mm) 22 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Professional / Scholarly

1		The genitourinary medicine service		1
2		Ethical and medico-legal issues		15
3		The standard clinic process		41
4		Investigations and microscopy		55
5		Specific genitourinary situations		73
6		Syphilis		93
7		Gonorrhoea		115
8		Chlamydia trachomatis infections		131
9		Non-chlamydial non-specific genital infection		147
10		Pelvic inflammatory disease		159
11		Prostatitis		175
12		Epididymitis, orchitis, epididymo-orchitis		183
13		Sexually acquired reactive arthritis		193
14		Bacterial vaginosis and anaerobic balanitis		209
15		Trichomoniasis		223
16		Genital candidiasis		235
17		Tropical genital and sexually acquired infections		251
18		Endemic treponematoses		259
19		Proctocolitis and enteric sexually acquired infections		263
20		Urinary tract infection		269
21		Anogenital herpes		279
22		Anogenital warts		293
23		Molluscum contagiosum		311
24		Sexually acquired viral hepatitis		315
25		Other viral infections		325
26		Scabies		333
27		Pediculosis		347
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In summary, I found the handbook to be comprehensive, current and a useful reference source for both the DFFP/STIF and DipGUM. In addition, it is evidence based and well resourced. Any health care professional working in sexual health or related specialties will find this an excellent guide. Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care ... this book is an excellent portable resource. I would recommend it for senior medical students and practitioners who have special interest in GU/HIV, infectious diseases or microbiology. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy ... a welcome addition to the Oxford range, and will certainly deserve to be in the library of every GU clinic and in the pocket of every practitioner in the specialty. BMJ Careers The long term utility of this book is assured as it fits a niche snugly, aiming itself not only at doctors but also at allied healthcare professionals working in the field, including specialist nurses and health advisers. STI Journal

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