Includes bibliographical references and index.

Tonsillopharyngitis in adults -- Sinusitis -- Infectious mononucleosis: many faces of a common disease -- Acute bronchitis -- Antibiotic-resistant pneumococci -- Fever and pleural effusions -- Community-acquired pneumonia in the elderly -- New pathogens causing pneumonia: SARS -- Infective endocarditis: diagnostic criteria -- Culture negative endocarditis -- Surgery in active infective endocarditis -- Endocarditis prophylaxis -- Filling defects of the liver -- Community-acquired peritonitis -- Infections of the hepatobiliary tract -- Management of infectious diarrhea -- Hepatitis C: diagnosis and management -- Urinary tract infections: basic principles of therapy -- Asymptomatic bacteriuria -- The significance of pyuria -- Prostatitis. Complicated urinary tract infections -- Candiduria -- Urethral discharge -- Serologic tests for syphilis -- Pelvic inflammatory disease -- Therapy of genital herpes -- Vaginitis -- Human papillomavirus -- Analysis of cerebrospinal fluid -- Central nervous system infection in immune suppressed hosts -- Acute peripheral facial palsy -- Acute infections of the central nervous system in immunocompetent persons -- Chronic meningitis -- Guillain-Barré syndrome -- Treatment of Varicella-Zoster virus and postherpetic neuralgia -- Vertebral osteomyelitis -- Infections of prosthetic joints -- Fever and joint pain -- Lyme disease: a diagnostic challenge -- Cellulitis and other skin and soft-tissue infections -- Parvovirus infections -- Gram-negative bacteremium and sepsis cascade. Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus -- Coagulase-negative staphylococci -- Vancomycin-resistant enterococci -- The febrile patient without an obvious source of infection -- Fever and prosthetic heart valves -- Prolonged fever and generalized lymphadenopathy -- Fever and skin rash -- Fever and the renal transplant recipient -- Fever following travel abroad -- Hyperpyrexia and hyperthermia -- Fever in the granulocytopenic patient -- Fever of unknown origin -- Recurrent furunculosis -- Postoperative fever -- Urinary catheter-related infections -- Healthcare-associated pneumonia -- Management of the employee with a needlestick injury -- Human infections after animal bites -- West Nile virus. Bioterrorism -- Prophylaxis of infectious diseases in travelers -- Role of the tuberculin skin test -- Isoniazid treatment of latent tuberculosis infection : indications and management -- Treatment of tuberculosis -- Laboratory report of a gram-negative rod in the blood -- Blood culture growing a gram-positive rod -- Stool for ova and parasites -- Principles of antimicrobial therapy -- Choosing a fluoroquinolone -- Antimicrobial-associated colitis -- Perioperative antimicrobial prophylaxis -- Antifungal chemotherapy -- Antibiotic failure -- Treatment and prevention of influenza -- Transmission and prevention of HIV infection -- Primary HIV infection -- Treatment of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in AIDS. HIV-1 and infections of the central nervous system -- Fever in the HIV-infected patient -- Prevention of opportunistic infection in the HIV-infected patient -- Antiretroviral therapy -- Drug interactions in patients with human immunodeficiency syndrome -- Role of HIV resistance testing.