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Edited by Christian C. Patrick. 654 pp. Philadelphia, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2001. $120. ISBN 0-7817-1718-3.

In 1992, Patrick edited a comprehensive textbook (Infections in Immunocompromised Infants and Children, Philadelphia, Churchill Livingstone). It contained a wealth of information in 56 chapters, spread over 850 pages. Clinical Management of Infections in Immunocompromised Infants and Children is similar to the earlier book but is more focused on clinical issues. It deals with the management of immunodeficiency states associated with prematurity, congenital immune deficiencies, and chemotherapy-associated immunosuppression in patients undergoing treatment for leukemia and lymphoma or organ transplantation. Other chapters take up the secondary disorders of host defense often seen in sickle cell disease, chronic renal failure, cystic . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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