This pocket-sized synopsis summarizes current knowledge of some of the common and more important infections in the hospital and the community. Alphabetically arranged, it is of great use to clinicians in all fields of medicine and surgery. The second edition contains expanded sections on protozoal infections to include those conditions of importance to the traveller and also deals with some of the intestinal helminth infections. Update said of the first edition, `,This book ...is a handy reference ...the writing is clear and concise and the coverage of subject matter is wide ...the book is lucid ...and represents very good value and can be thoroughly recommended to clinicians and microbiologists as a useful vade-mecum.'.