Abstract

<i>Principles and Practice of Pediatric Infectious Diseases</i>is the latest addition to the expanding number of pediatric infectious disease tomes, to which it inevitably will be compared. Like the "gold standard" in the field, Feigin and Cherry's<i>Textbook of Pediatric Infectious Diseases</i>, it is meant to be comprehensive. Unlike Feigin and Cherry, it is not encyclopedic, although it tends to greater comprehensiveness than the most recent entrant in this domain, Jenson and Baltimore's<i>Pediatric Infectious Diseases: Principles and Practice</i>. All the infectious disease texts are multiedited and multiauthored, a reflection of the breadth and depth of the subspecialty. Similarly, all have both general and specific etiologic agent sections. What are the distinguishing features of<i>Principles and Practice of Pediatric Infectious Diseases</i>, apart from its newness (a position soon and predictably to be relinquished to the fourth edition of Feigin and Cherry)? The first of the text's four major parts contains

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