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Red Book

Red Book

Author(s): Larry K. Pickering, MD, FAAP

Publisher: American Academy of Pediatrics
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The authoritative guide to the latest pediatric infectious disease information. The Red Book® brings you the latest clinically tested guidelines on the manifestations, etiology, epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment of more than 200 conditions. It is custom-designed to optimize everyday patient problem-solving with vital new information in topic areas including active and passive immunization, school health, blood safety, STDs, drug therapy, antimicrobial prophylaxis, and diseases ranging from anthrax and smallpox to West Nile Virus, tuberculosis, influenza, and pneumococcal infections.

Created by the AAP Committee on Infectious Diseases in conjunction with the CDC, the FDA, and other leading institutions with contributions from hundreds of physicians nationwide, this is a resource you'll consult often and with complete confidence.

Key Features
  • Key developments in combination vaccines
  • 2006 AAP standards for child and adolescent immunization practices
  • Revised recommendations on parental refusal to vaccinate
  • The latest on prevention of mosquito-borne infections
  • Updated coverage of Baylisascaris, Metapneumovirus, and West Nile Virus; coronaviruses; pertussis; tuberculosis; pneumococcal, meningococcal, and varicella infections
  • Important new findings on drug interactions
  • Revised American Heart Association recommendations for prevention of bacterial endocarditis
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