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Infectious Disease: Pathogenesis, Prevention and Case Studies

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I considered using this text for a new course I was teaching in Infectious Diseases, and although I was very excited to see the book, in the end I decided against it for several reasons. First, compared to other text books it is next to impossible to find anything in it without using the index; the TOC has only chapter titles, so if you are looking to find information on a specific disease (other than one of the biggies), good luck. Also, the chapter numbers are not given in the page headings in the book, so you are never quite sure where you are. Finally, and most importantly, for a book from 2009 I found statistics from 1998 being cited (when I know something more current must exist). I did use it on several occasions as a reference & for this it was OK, but overall, it seemed really user un-friendly & I couldn't justify asking my students to pay $150 for it.