Feigin and Cherry's Textbook of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, 9th Edition
By James D. Cherry, Sheldon L. Kaplan, Gail J. Demmler-Harrison, William J. Steinbach, Peter J. Hotez, John V. Williams
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Feigin and Cherry's Textbook of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, 9th Edition, examines infections affecting children through epidemiology, clinical presentation, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. This two-volume reference serves pediatricians, infectious disease specialists, and trainees, with coverage extending to neonatal infections, immunocompromised patients, tropical diseases, and public health.
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Bacterial, viral, fungal, and parasitic pediatric infections
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Pediatric infections are approached through both the organisms responsible and the clinical problems they produce. The ninth edition brings together discussions of bacterial, viral, fungal, and parasitic disease with diagnostic methods, antimicrobial treatment, vaccination, and other preventive measures. Epidemiology and transmission help place individual cases in a wider population context.
The scope includes congenital and neonatal infection, disease in children with impaired immunity, and infections encountered through travel or in tropical settings. Emerging pathogens and antimicrobial resistance are also addressed. Specialists and trainees can use the two-volume structure for extended reading on a disease or for comparing related presentations and diagnostic considerations.
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Inside Feigin and Cherry's Textbook of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, 9th Edition.
A two-volume reference guide to infections in children, moving from the organisms responsible through clinical presentation, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention, and extending to neonatal disease, immunocompromised patients, tropical settings, and the wider public health context in which pediatric infections are managed.
The ninth edition approaches pediatric infection from two directions: the organisms responsible and the clinical problems they produce. Bacterial, viral, fungal, and parasitic disease are discussed alongside diagnostic methods, antimicrobial treatment, vaccination, and other preventive measures, with epidemiology and transmission placing cases in a population context. Two volumes allow sustained reading on a single condition. Scope includes congenital and neonatal infection, disease in children with impaired immunity, and infections met through travel or in tropical settings. Emerging pathogens and antimicrobial resistance are addressed, giving specialists and trainees a reference for comparing related presentations and diagnostic considerations.
Organism-based approach to infection
One route into pediatric infection begins with the pathogen: bacterial, viral, fungal, or parasitic. The guide follows that organisation, showing how the biology and transmission of an organism shape the illnesses it causes and the populations it threatens. This view supports pattern recognition across cases and helps a reader move from a suspected organism to the clinical questions that follow.
Group disease by causative organism
Link transmission to at-risk groups
Move from organism to clinical question
Use the organism sections when a pathogen is already suspected or identified.
Clinical presentation and diagnosis
The other route begins with the child in front of the clinician. Presentations are examined as problems to interpret, with differential diagnosis connecting symptoms and signs to likely causes. The guide stresses the link between how a disease appears and how it is investigated, so diagnostic reasoning is treated as continuous with clinical assessment rather than as a separate step.
Interpret symptoms as a problem to solve
Build a differential from the presentation
Keep assessment and investigation connected
Start here when the case begins with a presentation rather than a known organism.
Diagnostic testing in context
Tests are discussed in relation to the disease presentations they serve, not as an independent catalogue. The guide considers what a result can and cannot establish, and how laboratory findings fit alongside history and examination. Readers are encouraged to ask what question a test answers before ordering it, and to interpret results against the clinical picture.
Ask what question a test answers
Read results against the clinical picture
Recognise what a test cannot establish
Pair with the presentation sections so testing is read as part of a diagnostic argument.
Antimicrobial treatment and resistance
Treatment discussions connect drug choice to the organism, the site of infection, and the child's circumstances. The guide also addresses antimicrobial resistance as a constraint that changes empirical decisions and makes susceptibility information matter. Rather than offering fixed regimens, it frames treatment as reasoning about likely pathogens, local patterns, and the risk of resistance.
Tie drug choice to organism and site
Treat resistance as a planning constraint
Reason about likely pathogens empirically
Read after the organism and diagnosis sections, when the target of treatment is clear.
Neonatal and immunocompromised hosts
Some children face infection with immature or impaired defences, and the guide treats these populations as requiring their own assessment logic. Congenital and neonatal infection, and disease in children with compromised immunity, are discussed with attention to atypical presentation and the narrower margin for delay. The theme connects host factors to the urgency and direction of investigation.
Expect atypical presentation in impaired hosts
Connect host factors to urgency
Adapt investigation to the population
Read as a separate pass; host factors change how the same disease is interpreted.
Prevention, vaccination, global health
Prevention runs alongside treatment through vaccination and other measures, with epidemiology supplying the population view. The guide extends this to infections encountered in travel and tropical settings and to public health perspectives on transmission and control. Readers see individual cases against a background of preventable disease, emerging pathogens, and the systems that monitor them.
Place cases in an epidemiological context
Consider travel and tropical exposure
Link prevention to population control
Use when broadening from a single case to prevention, travel history, or public health.
Topic map
Bacterial infectionsTopic 1
Viral infectionsTopic 2
Fungal and parasitic diseaseTopic 3
Diagnostic methodsTopic 4
Antimicrobial treatment and resistanceTopic 5
Congenital and neonatal infectionTopic 6
Immunocompromised hostsTopic 7
Vaccination, tropical disease, global healthTopic 8
Key takeaways
Pediatric infection can be studied from the organism or from the clinical presentation.
Diagnostic tests gain meaning only when they are read against history and examination.
Host factors in newborns and immunocompromised children change urgency and interpretation alike.
Pediatricians, infectious disease specialists, and trainees who need a two-volume reference for diagnosing, treating, and preventing infection in children, including neonatal, immunocompromised, and tropical cases.
Topics covered
pediatric infectious diseases
neonatal infections
antimicrobial treatment
vaccination and prevention
immunocompromised children
tropical disease
diagnostic testing
bacterial viral fungal parasitic
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What is Feigin and Cherry's Textbook of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, 9th Edition about?
Feigin and Cherry's Textbook of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, 9th Edition, examines infections affecting children through epidemiology, clinical presentation, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. This two-volume reference serves pediatricians, infectious disease specialists, and trainees, with coverage extending to neonatal infections, immunocompromised patients, tropical diseases, and public health.
Which edition of Feigin and Cherry's Textbook of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, 9th Edition is this?
This listing is for the 9th edition. Check the title, ISBN, and book details above before ordering, especially if your course or reading list names a specific edition.
Who is Feigin and Cherry's Textbook of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, 9th Edition for?
Pediatricians, infectious disease specialists, and trainees who need a two-volume reference for diagnosing, treating, and preventing infection in children, including neonatal, immunocompromised, and tropical cases.
Does this page include a study guide?
Yes. This page includes an original study guide with six thematic sections, key takeaways, and a topic map for structured reading.
