Bibliographic record
Abstract
This book is intended to provide a practical, clinically oriented overview of infectious diseases for general internists and infectious disease specialists. As the editor warns in the foreword, the depth of this book will not (and does not) equal that of “encyclopedic tomes” such as Mandell and colleagues’ Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases (Churchill Livingstone, 2004). The first section focuses on clinical syndromes, grouped by organ system. Other sections address hot topics such as bioterrorism, infection control, travel medicine and host susceptibility. No textbook in this field would be complete without a chapter discussing principles of antimicrobial use. The chapters are focused and divided into useful subheadings, which, together with the widespread use of color indexes and photographs, makes this book an enjoyable and poignant read. In the practice of infectious diseases, it is notoriously difficult to create balance between an organ-system-based approach and pathogen-driven discussion of disease. What sets this book apart from many other references of this kind is the inclusion of organism-based chapters that complement the discussion of clinical entities, with excellent cross-referencing. Many authors contributed their expertise to this book, leading to some variability in the quality of its content. Most chapters provide a succinct yet comprehensive overview. However, there are certain topics that warrant more detail (such as including interpretation of the tuberculin skin test and treatment of latent tuberculosis infection in the tuberculosis chapter). Less bias toward the management strategies employed in the United States would enable broader application of the principles discussed in this text. In the end, Clinical Infectious Disease does provide a good and easy-to-use reference for the infectious disease enthusiast. For anyone beyond aficionados, it represents a springboard for diving into the more encyclopedic and international seas of knowledge.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".