Nandini Shetty is an MD, FRCPath, MSc (Epidemiology and Statistics). She is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Royal Free and University College London Medical School and she is uniquely well-qualified for authorship of this book as she has had experience teaching infectious disease from all three perspectives, basic science, public health and medical. Her clinical activities include the diagnosis and management of community and hospital acquired infection at the University College London Group of Hospitals. As a member of the faculty of the Health Protection Agency she has an important role in managing the Public Health aspects of Communicable Disease in the UK.
Julian Wei-Tze Tang is a PhD, MRCP, FRCPath, Consultant Virologist at the National University Hospital in Singapore. He is a clinical/academic virologist interested in all aspects (pathogenesis, diagnosis, management, control and epidemiology) of viruses that can cause disease in humans - particularly HIV, influenza, and newly emerging viruses. He completed all his specialist training in the UK and has worked and taught students in London, Hong Kong, and Singapore.
Julie Andrews is an MRCP FRCPath, Consultant Microbiologist at the Whittington Hospital in London. She completed her training from University College and other affiliated hospitals in London. Her current position involves the diagnosis and management of infection in the community and the hospital and includes infection prevention and control. She also has responsibility for tutoring medical students from the Royal Free and University College London Medical School.

CHAP 1. INTRODUCTION.

I. Microbial aetiology of disease and normal flora.

Description of bacteria, viruses, parasites and fungi as relevant to the rest of the course..

II. Antimicrobial Agents..

Brief classification, principles of use, mechanism of action and mechanisms of bacterial evasion and resistance..

III. Introduction to basic principles of epidemiology..

Investigation of outbreaks, public health aspects of infectious diseases with emphasis on prevention and control..

CHAP 2. A SYSTEMS BASED APPROACH TO INFECTIOUS DISEASES.

All sections will include where appropriate: Aetiology, pathogenesis, clinical presentation, diagnosis, management and control. Common epidemiological scenarios. Clinical cases, with problem solving exercises, data and laboratory interpretation with images..

I. Infections of the musculo-skeletal system.

II. Gastroenteritis.

III. Cardiac and Respiratory Tract infections.

IV. Infections of the Central Nervous System.

V. Infections of the Genito-urinary System.

VI. Obstetric, Congenital and Neonatal Infections.

CHAP 3. INFECTIONS OF GLOBAL IMPACT.

I. Tuberculosis.

II. Malaria.

III. HIV/AIDS.

IV. Hepatitis.

CHAP 4. EMERGING AND RESURGENT INFECTIONS

* SARS

* Viral haemorrhagic fevers

* West Nile virus

* Hanta virus infections

* Diphtheria

* Dengue