Handbook of Meningococcal Disease Management

• Concise pocketbook designed to support physicians, virologists, and immunologists in their day-to-day practice
• Written and edited by key thought leaders and developed using the latest clinical evidence and guidelines
• High quality full-color supportive illustrations, tables and graphs enable complicated concepts to be made clear to readers with different levels of background understanding

About this book

This concise pocketbook will provide readers with an overview and background of meningococcal disease, treatment options and emerging therapies, and methods of prevention. The book was originally commissioned due to recent developments in vaccinations to prevent meningococcal disease.

This book reviews the disease progression and associated risk factors; its pathogenesis and diagnosis; methods of treatment and prevention, both current and emerging; and the future directions of meningococcal disease management. The book is ideal for busy healthcare professionals, as it covers all aspects of the disease and its treatment in a condensed and manageable format, whilst including the most up-to-date treatment guidelines and algorithms.

Table of contents (7 chapters)

·         Introduction and epidemiology of meningococcal disease

Trotter, Caroline (et al.)

Pages 1-14

·         Carriage and transmission of

Trotter, Caroline L. (et al.)

Pages 15-23

·         Pathogenesis of invasive disease

Øvstebo, Reidun (et al.)

Pages 25-43

·         Diagnosis of meningococcal disease

Tsang, Raymond (et al.)

Pages 45-55

·         Clinical aspects of meningococcal disease

Pelton, Stephen (et al.)

Pages 57-73

·         Treatment of meningococcal disease

Nadel, Simon (et al.)

Pages 75-90

·         Prevention of meningococcal disease through vaccination

Pollard, Andrew J. (et al.)

Pages 91-103