The thoroughly updated Fifth Edition of this popular "Spiral[registered] Manual" is a practical, reliable quick-reference guide to diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases. Organized for rapid information retrieval, the book provides concise, organ-based summaries of each disease. New chapters cover new pathogens causing pneumonia-SARS, human papillomavirus diagnosis and management, treatment of VZV and post-herpetic neuralgia, parvovirus infections, West Nile virus, agents of bioterrorism, choosing a quinolone, treatment and prevention of influenza, and the role of HIV resistance testing.