Amazon.com description: Product Description: This book should fulfill physicians' needs for a guide enabling them to quickly identify viral infections and establish etiology leading to successful intervention. This portable handbook is a ready-reference guide to the symptoms and the clinical and laboratory diagnosis of viral diseases. The book brings together all the practical, clinically useful information on diagnosis from the Third Edition of the text "Antiviral Agents and Viral Diseases of Man". Coverage includes up-to-date diagnostic guidelines for HIV and other human retroviruses, viral hepatitis, human papillomaviruses, herpes simplex virus, Epstein-Barr virus, cytomegalovirus, and exotic RNA viruses, as well as for chronic intrauterine and perinatal infections and infections of specific organ systems. An explanation of current laboratory tests is also included.