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The 28th edition of the 2009 Report of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Committee on Infectious Diseases, known to most clinicians as The Red Book, is considered the Bible of pediatric infectious diseases. Updated and exhaustive summary of the clinical manifestations, etiology, epidemiology, diagnostic tests, treatment, isolation and control measures for more than 200 pediatric infectious diseases are included. This reference also includes a number of related topics including management. With more than 350 liaisons and collaborators from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration, the National Insitutes of Health, The Canadian Paediatric Society, the World Health Organization and other, the 12 member Committee issued the current edition reflecting the state of the art at the time of publication. The area of infectious diseases is rapidly emerging and changing. The print book is enhanced with updated information on Red Book Online, a comprehensive pediatric infectious disease website which includes updates, visual references and more.

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Considered by many the quintessential resource and reference for clinical practice. Emerging Infectious Diseases It should not be considered acceptable to keep an outdated Red Book on the shelf. Doody's Review

""Considered by many the quintessential resource and reference for clinical practice."" Emerging Infectious Diseases ""It should not be considered acceptable to keep an outdated Red Book on the shelf."" Doody's Review""

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Carol J. Baker, MD, FAAP, is executive director of the Center for Vaccine Awareness and Research at Texas Children's Hospital and professor of pediatrics and of molecular virology and microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX. She also serves as chair of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. Dr Baker received her undergraduate degree at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and her medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine. She trained in pediatrics at Baylor and was an infectious diseases fellow both at Baylor and Harvard Medical School. David W. Kimberlin, MD, FAAP, is the Editor of the 2021 AAP Report of the Committee on Infectious Diseases (Red Book). He also was Editor of the 2015 and 2018 editions, and was an Associate Editor of the 2012 and 2009 editions, and served on the AAP Committee on Infectious Diseases from 2005- 2011. Dr Kimberlin is Professor of Pediatrics and Co-director, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, University of Alabama at Birmingham. His clinical and research interests include pediatric infectious diseases, antiviral therapeutics in rare diseases with a large unmet medical need, including neonatal herpes simplex virus (HSV) infections, congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) disease, congenital Zika infection, neonatal and infantile influenza infection, and neonatal enteroviral sepsis syndrome. Sarah S. Long, MD, FAAP is Section Chief of Infectious Diseases at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children in Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Long is also Professor of Pediatrics at Drexel University College of Medicine. Dr. Long is an associate editor of The Journal of Pediatrics and is the chief editor of the textbook Principles and Practice of Pediatric Infectious Diseases. She has received numerous teaching awards, the Distinguished Service Award of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, the Clinical Teacher Award of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, and the Award for Lifetime Contribution to Infectious Diseases Education by the Section on Infectious Diseases of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Dr. Long completed her medical degree at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, and her residency and fellowship at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children. She is board certified in pediatrics and pediatric infectious disease, and her principal areas of research are vaccine-preventable diseases and management of common infectious diseases in children. She sits on advisory committees for the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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