Table of Contents Section 1 1: Antibacterials, Shalom Ben-Shimol and Ron Dagan 2: Antifungals, Charalampos Antachopoulos 3: Antiparasitics, Geoffrey Edwards 4: Antivirals, Eleni Nastouli 5: Antimicrobial stewardship, Theoklis Zaoutis and Beatriz Larru 6: Bacterial Meningitis, Andrew Pollard and Manish Sadarangani 7: Bone or Joint Infection, Saul Faust 8: Cardiac Infection, Georgi Christov and Garth Dixon 9: Central venous line infection, Michael Millar and Jo Seale 10: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Peter Rudd 11: Congenital Infection, Kirsty Mehring-Le Doare 12: Diarrhoea and Vomiting, Jim Buttery 13: Emerging Infections and pandemic preparedness, Shamez Ladhani 14: Encephalitis, Jethro Herberg 15: Enlarged Lymph Nodes, Jolanta Bernatoniene 16: Ocular Infections, Shelley Segal 17: Immunocompromised children with infections, Thomas Lehrnbecher 18: Immunisation in immunocompromised children, Matthew Snape, Tim Sell, and Rahale Tavanayan Fard 19: Infection Control in the Community, Janet McCulloch 20: Infection Control in the Hospital- HCAI, Jim Gray 21: Laboratory Diagnosis of Infection, Jim Gray 22: LRTI, Nicola Principi 23: Neonatal Infection, Paul Heath and Stefania Vergnano 24: Periodic Fever, Athimalaipet Ramanan and Marion Roderick 25: Pyrexia of Unknown Origin, Anita Modi 26: Rash, Penelope Bryant 27: Gram-positive infections, Nikos Spryidis and Jim Gray 28: Gram-negative infections, Jim Gray 29: Refugees and Internationally Adopted Children, David Elliman 30: Returning from Abroad with an Infection, Andrew Riordan 31: Sepsis Syndrome, Marieke Emonts 32: Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Alyson Elliman and Claire Rohan 33: Skin and Soft Tissue Infection, Cilian O Maoldomhnaigh and Patrick Gavin 34: Suspected Immunodeficiency, Austen Worth 35: Systematic Fungal Infection, Adilia Warris 36: Toxic Shock Syndrome, Tom Wolfs 37: Trauma Bites and Burns, Ian Maconochie and Rebecca Salter 38: Travelling Abroad, Matthew Ellis and Jane Wilson Howarth 39: Urinary Tract Infections in Children, Maria Bitsori 40: URTI, Ulrich Heininger and Jan Bonhoeffer 41: Zoonoses, Richard Cooke Section 2 42: Adenovirus, Herman Goossens 43: Amoebiasis, Scott Hackett 44: Anaerobic, Steven Welch 45: Arboviruses, Nuria Martinez-Allier 46: Ascariasis (Roundworm), Maribel González Tomé 47: Aspergillosis, Lucinda Winckworth 48: Botulism (Food-borne and Infant Botulism), Robert Cunney 49: Brucellosis, Julia M Kenny 50: Campylobacter, Nikos Spyridis 51: Candidiasis, Emmanuel Roilides 52: Cat-Scratch Disease, Nicol Principi 53: Varicella zoster virus, Kirsty le Doare 54: Chlamydia pneumoniae, Nicola Principi 55: Chlamydia psittaci, Nicola Principi 56: Chlamydia trachomatis, Nicola Principi 57: Cholera, Dominique Legros 58: Clostridium Difficile, Susanna Liviadiotti, Laura Folgori and Livia Gargiullo 59: Conjunctivitis, Rowan Heath 60: Cryptosporidiosis, Mary Slatter 61: Cytomegalovirus Infection, Suzanne Luck 62: Dermatophytoses: Tinea Capitis, Corporis, Pedis and Unguium, Veronika Dvorakova and Rosemary Watson 63: Diptheria, Rick Malley and Irja Lutsar 64: Enteroviruses and Parechoviruses, Jethro Herberg and Rogier van Doorn 65: Rhinoviruses, Sue Liebeschuetz 66: Giardiasis 67: Gonococcal Infection, Theresa Cole 68: Haemolytic Uraemic Syndrome, Nicole van der Kar 69: Haemorrhagic Fevers, Anna Papa 70: Haemophilus influenzae, Shamez Ladhani 71: Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease, Irja Lutsar, Emily Williams and Piia Jõgi 72: Helicobacter pylori Infection, Alfredo Guarino 73: Hepatitis A & E, Samreen Ijaz and Shamez Ladhani 74: Hepatitis B, Suzanne Davison 75: Hepatitis C, Suzanne Davison 76: HSV1 & HSV2, Kirsty le Doare 77: HSV6 & HSV7, Simon Drysdale 78: HIV, Carlo Giaquinto 79: Infectious Helminthiasis, Adam Finn 80: Epstein-Barr Virus (Infectious mononucleosis), Eda Tamm 81: Influenza and Para-Influenza, Terho Heikkinen 82: Intestinal Worms (threadworms), Lei Ang 83: Kawasaki Disease, Despina Eleftheriou 84: Legionnaires' Disease, Marta Palusinska-Szysz 85: Leishmaniasis, Shalom Ben-Shimol 86: Listeriosis, Nicola Prinicipi 87: Lyme Disease, Peter Rudd 88: Malaria, Shamez Ladhani 89: Measles, Vana Papavangelou 90: Meningococcal Disease, Michiel van der Flier 91: Mumps, Stanley Plotkin and Mary Ramsay 92: Mycobacterial Infection (atypical), Philipp Henneke 93: Mycoplasma Infections, Annemarie van Rossum and Patrick M.Meyer 94: Nits and Head Lice, Marc Tebruegge 95: Norovirus, Miguel O'Ryan 96: Other Fungal Infections, Adilia Warris 97: Papilloma virus, Katja Doerholt 98: Parvovirus Infection, Penelope Bryant 99: Pertussis (Whooping Cough), Alison Kent and Ulrich Heininger 100: Plague, Hermione Lyall 101: Pneumococcal Disease, Alistair Bamford 102: Pneumocytis carinii Pneumonia, Aspasia Katragkou 103: Poliomyelitis, Patrizia D'argenio and Lorenza Romani 104: Poxvirus Infection (including Molluscum Contagiosum), Jolanta Bernatoniene 105: Prion Disease (Spongiform Encephalitis), Jolanta Bernatoniene 106: Rabies, Bhanu Williams and Vas Novelli 107: Respiritory Syncytial Virus Infection, Jennifer Handforth 108: HHV6, T Ronan Leahy 109: Rotavirus and other Viral Enteropathogens, Carlo Giaquinto 110: Rubella, Pat Tookey 111: Salmonellosis, Jolanta Bernatoniene 112: Scabies, David Elliman 113: Schistosomiasis, Karyn Moshal 114: Shigellosis, Lei Ang 115: Staphylococcal Infections and MRSA, Jim Gray 116: Streptococcal Infections (excluding pneumococcus), Phillip Henneke 117: Syphillis, Shalom Ben-Shimol 118: Tetanus, Mitul Patel 119: Tick-borne Encephalitis, Ulrich Jeininger and Herwig Kollaritsch 120: Toxocariasis, Mitul Patel 121: Toxoplasmosis, Simon Drysdale 122: Tuberculosis, Maria Tsolia and Delane Shingadia 123: Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fevers, Christopher Parry 124: Typhus, Wai-Tim Jim, Hsin Chi and Nan-Chang Chiu 125: Yellow Fever, David Hill and Hilary J Simons 126: Yersiniosis, Mary Slack 127: Kingella, Pablo Yagupsky and Ron Dagan Appendices 1: Morbidity and Mortality from infection, Shamez Ladhani 2: Exclusion Period 3: Variation in Immunisation Schedules: UK and Europe, Paul Heath and Ulrich Heininger Tables 1: Formulary 2: Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases in Europe 3: Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases in the UK 4: Useful Contacts, Websites, Pictures