LITERATURE OF MEDICINE
Reviews and Notes: Dermatology: The Skin and Infection
15 June 1995 | Volume 122 Issue 12 | Page 965
CV Sanders and LT Nesbitt, Jr.; eds. 325 pages. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins; 1995. $139.00. ISBN 0-683-07539-X. Order phone 410-528-4555.
An extensive collection of color photographs showing lesions and patient appearances typical of the full range of microbial infections and parasitic disease. The collection is grouped by various paradigms: clinical procedure, organism type, syndromes. The text gives essential summary information needed as interpretive background. Of particular current importance are the chapters on immunocompromised hosts with and without human immunodeficiency virus infection and on Lyme disease. Generous number of tabular summaries.