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Contributing Authors
Foreword
Preface
1 Disorders of Host Defense 3
2 Premature Infants 35
3 Pediatric Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection: Natural History, Perinatal Transmission, and Opportunistic Infections 62
4 Congenital Immunodeficiencies 95
5 Management of Specific Infectious Complications in Children with Leukemias and Lymphomas 111
6 Infections Following Kidney Transplantation in Children 144
7 Infectious Complications of Liver Transplantation in Children 164
8 Heart Transplant Recipients 180
9 Infections in Patients Undergoing Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation 195
10 Vascular Access Device Infections 212
11 Sickle Cell Disease and Other Hemoglobinopathies 224
12 Infections in Children with Renal Disease 242
13 Infections in Children with Cystic Fibrosis 259
14 Malnutrition, Immunocompetence, and the Risk of Infection 282
15 Asplenia 307
16 Infections in Burn Patients 327
17 Assessment and Management of Suspected Infection in Neutropenic Patients 353
18 Sinopulmonary Infections in Immunocompromised Infants and Children 388
19 Enteric Infections 413
20 Central Nervous System Infections in the Immunocompromised Host 450
21 Dermatologic Findings with Infection 470
22 Immunizations in the Immunocompromised Host 511
23 Prevention of Infection 537
24 Antibiotic Therapy in the Immunocompromised Host 562
25 Immunomodulation 584
Suject Index 627