Oxford Textbook Of Medical Mycology !!link!! | FHD – 360p |
The Oxford Textbook of Medical Mycology (first published in 2018, with updated editions keeping pace) changed the landscape entirely. At nearly 500 pages, it is not light reading, but it is the definitive declaration that fungi have arrived as a major clinical threat. There are three specific reasons this book has caused such a stir in the infectious disease community:
Modern medicine is a double-edged sword. We are getting better at keeping people alive—chemotherapy, stem cell transplants, advanced surgeries, and biologics for autoimmune diseases. But these therapies obliterate the immune system. The Oxford Textbook brilliantly connects the dots between medical progress and fungal invasion . It explains that as we build better ICUs, we are also building perfect incubators for rare molds. If you don't understand the epidemiology in this book, you are essentially practicing 20th-century medicine in a 21st-century ICU. oxford textbook of medical mycology
When we think of infectious diseases, our minds usually jump to bacteria (think E. coli or Staph ) or viruses (the obvious recent headline-grabbers). Fungi, if they get a mention at all, are usually reduced to the annoyance of athlete’s foot or the inconvenience of a yeast infection. The Oxford Textbook of Medical Mycology (first published
Have you encountered a difficult fungal case in your practice? Let me know in the comments below. It explains that as we build better ICUs,